When Loretta was a child, she would fall asleep many nights listening to the soothing music of Mantovani, on various 33rpm records from her parent’s collection.  That’s when her love of music began.  Oh those violins – they sounded like angels singing in Heaven.  So the violin became her instrument of choice.  She began at age 9, but soon wondered where those Heavenly Angels were.  When she first began playing, similar to any other newbie violinist, the sound produced was more like fingernails scrapping on a black board.  She was now determined to improve her sound and technique.  She listened to as many classical recordings  and attended as many live orchestra performances as possible.   Over the years, her love of classical and chamber music continued.  She has studied with Alan Arnold (Composer, first teacher), Phillip Coonce (New Mexico Symphony), Carlos Rubio (Dali String Quartet), David Bakamjian (American Symphony Orchestra), Charles Forbes (Buffalo Philharmonic), Brenda Anna (Columbia Orchestra), Cathy Armoury (Arlington Symphony) and Lori Berkowitz (Alfred Einstein Symphony).   Loretta has been a violinist with the Eastern Michigan Orchestra, Long Island Symphonia, Livestock Players of Greensboro, Greensboro Philharmonia, Melbourne Community Orchestra (Concert Master), BCC Orchestra (Principal Second Violin), Cocoa Village Play House Orchestra, Henegar Center Pit Orchestra and the Strings Attached Quartet. 

Dvorak, Brahms, Mahler & Debussy top the list as the composers who most influenced her love of music.   Loretta stated, “I started reading music at the age of 9.  To this day, many decades later, I am still in awe of the fact that all those little black dots on a piece of paper can be transformed into something so beautifully harmonious, delightfully ethereal or harshly dissonant.  Music creates imagery.  I love bringing the notes on the paper to life”.