I grew up in Hollywood, California.

I'm the fourth of five girls, and we all play instruments.

So we did grow up going to music lessons together, playing in youth orchestras together and playing a lot of chamber music.

I started on violin, the sister just above me and the sister.

But loamy also played the violin.

My mother, it also plays the violin, and it was way too much East ring surrounding me.

I would beg to be able to practice in the room next to my sister who played the cello.

And once I did get a viola, it was clear that it was an instrument that really spoke to me.

I felt that I could draw sound out that I really loved was very passionate about it, where it was not at all about the violin.

So my mother figured it out.

I got some good early training, and when I was about 11 I switched to the villa and I never looked back.

So my three daughters, my eldest, my stepdaughter, is, um, musical theater.

She has two Children of her own So we have two grand Children right now.

We have such a big family.

Are our Sundays air kind of reserved family times?

We'd like to cook a lot between family and exercise, reading that book at night.

That's that all I have time for responsibilities lie on me to really be a translator for what the conductor would like to hear from the section if we're lagging behind, if we're playing in a stroke, that doesn't match with the other upper strings.

You know, I keep an eye out on all of that.

I coordinate the Boeings with the concert Master.

If there's a question from the section, Did you want to take time before the downbeat of this next bar?

That kind of thing.

I'm the one who sort of gathered all the information and works in a way that helps the rehearsal flow.

You know, I did not start out studying music, going university, thinking I'm gonna be the principal viewers to the New York Philharmonic.

My goal was always to play with people that I really respected.

It really makes this job so wonderful to have such incredible colleagues on any given day.

I mean, we're all tired.

We work really hard.

It's really hard to pull these four performances in a row out and have a sound as if it's the first performance.

And I have to say I'm so rely on my colleagues, my other principal colleagues.

The principal wins the people who have solos that just make me so happy and responses.

And that's the case in this orchestra.

You you really hear so much incredible music making going around you all the time.

It's very, very inspiring.

And, um, that's really worth everything, the ideal that we want to make this music making process as excellent as possible and as committed as possible.

That's for Universal, and that's a big thing to share.