Meredith Maddox Hicks joined the Arkansas Symphony in 2002 after receiving her MM in
Performance and completing Doctoral coursework at Florida State University. A native of
Nashville, Tennessee, she graduated from Belmont University with a BM in Violin
Performance before becoming an exchange student in Moscow, Russia at the Russian
Academy of Music, Gnessin Institute. Her teachers include Elisabeth Small, Karen Clarke
and Eliot Chapo. Meredith’s orchestral experience includes the concertmaster position at both
of the universities she attended, as well as holding positions with the Memphis, Jacksonville,
Naples and New World Symphony Orchestras. As a chamber musician, she is a member of
the Arkansas Symphony’s flagship string quartet, the Quapaw Quartet and the Albani Trio at
the University of Arkansas Little Rock. While considering chamber music her first love,
Meredith also enjoys teaching students of all ages. She teaches privately and is a member of
the Suzuki Association of the Americas. She is the Visiting Lecturer of Violin and Viola at the
University of Arkansas Little Rock. Meredith is a previous winner of the Belmont Encore
Award for outstanding alumni in classical music.
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