Bio

Solveig Geenen is a professional violinist and private violin teacher currently based in Salt Lake City, Utah. She performs regularly as a substitute violinist with the Utah Symphony and maintains a small private studio of violin and piano students. Solveig formerly held section violin positions with the Detroit Opera Orchestra and the Lansing Symphony Orchestra, and she was a tenured member of the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra. She has also performed with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and the Sarasota Orchestra as a substitute violinist.

Solveig is originally from Columbia, Missouri, where she began learning the violin from her mother, Suzuki violin teacher Siri Geenen, and continued her studies with Amy Appold. Solveig received her Master of Music from the University of Michigan, studying with David Halen, and her Bachelor of Music from Northwestern University, studying with Gerardo Ribeiro. Solveig has appeared as a soloist with the Missouri Symphony, performing Joseph Bologne’s Sinfonia Concertante in G Major for Two Violins, as well as with the National Repertory Orchestra, where she performed Vaughan William’s “The Lark Ascending” with Leonard Slatkin conducting. Solveig has served in leadership roles for many notable ensembles, including principal second violin of the National Repertory Orchestra, assistant concertmaster of the Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra, guest concertmaster of the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, and guest principal second of the Traverse City Philharmonic. An avid chamber musician, Solveig has worked closely with members of the Telegraph Quartet, the Dover Quartet, and the Cavani Quartet. Her quartet at the University of Michigan, the Evergreen Quartet, received the Gustave Rosseels Endowed Prize for String Quartet and placed second in the 2025 Briggs Chamber Music Competition. In the summer of 2025, Solveig performed as a member of the National Repertory Orchestra’s Alumni String Quartet, where she performed dozens of free concerts around the Breckenridge community and served as an ambassador for early music education through performances at local preschools and day camps.

A dedicated teacher, Solveig has been teaching violin for the past ten years and piano for the past year, and she maintains a studio of online and in-person violin and piano students. She has worked closely with her mother, Suzuki violin teacher Siri Geenen, to hone her abilities as a violin teacher. Solveig received her Suzuki Association of the Americas Every Child Can! (ECC!) training during her time at Northwestern University under the instruction of Ann Montzka Smelser. Solveig also served as President of the Evanston Young Artists program, a non-profit organization that provides free lessons to underserved students in the Chicago area.