Laura Anne Bossert
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Laura Anne Bossert (born 24 April 1968) is a violinist, violist, and pedagogue. She is a current faculty member at the Longy School of Music of Bard College[1] and Wellesley College[2] and, during the summer, the Castleman Quartet Program.[3] She is co-director and founder of LyricaFest[4] in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
Bossert was born in Chatham Township, New Jersey to pianist Mariel Bossert and attorney Walter Bossert, and grew up with siblings Ellen Bossert and William Standish Bossert. She began violin study at age 5 with the encouragement of her mother. In elementary school, Bossert studied with New Jersey local violin teacher Virginia Howe. Growing up, she was a frequenter of Camp Point Counterpoint, where she was mentored by Edwin Finckel (father of David Finckel). She first attended the Castleman Quartet Program as a participant at age 17.
