Lauren is presently a third year doctoral student in the violin performance program at UCLA. She currently studies with Movses Pogossian and Guillaume Sutre, and completed her master’s degree with Lorenz Gamma.

While Lauren enjoys performing, her true love is teaching. Currently, she teaches with the Suzuki Talent Education Program in Pasadena, and also maintains a studio in West Hills where she maintains a private studio of over 30 students ages three and up. She has been teaching at the college level as a teaching assistant for the UCLA string pedagogy class for the past three years.

Lauren was the head of the string program at the UCLA Summer Music Academy this past summer, a chamber music program for high school students. She also is part of the UCLA/Hamilton High School mentoring program, where she teaches and mentors underprivileged, talented violinists in order to prepare them for college music auditions.

Lauren Deutsch also holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in science. Graduating Summa Cum Laude with a bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology from USC, she went on to pursue a master’s degree in Kinesiology, completing original research studying the biomechanics of violin players. While at USC, she was the teaching assistant for the upper level exercise physiology classes and was a research assistant in the biomechanics lab.

Lauren and her sister, Lindsay, co-founded a non-profit organization Classics Alive (www.classicsalive.org) to encourage, mentor, and motivate kids to become involved in classical music.

Ms. Deutsch also consults with individuals and organizations on music education program planning, curriculum planning, and the writing of grant requests.