Risa Browder has been teaching at H-B Woodlawn since the fall of 2006.  She was born in Princeton, New Jersey and received her professional musical training at Oberlin Conservatory, the Royal College of Music in London, and the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland.

    Her work as a violinist has taken her all over Europe, Japan, Australia and the US. She has recorded with a number of orchestras, among them, Academy of Ancient Music, the English Concert, London Classical Players, Les Musiciens du Louvre, and Washington Bach Consort with whom she was concertmaster and frequent soloist. As a chamber musician she has performed and recorded with the Purcell Quartet, London Baroque, Rebel and the Folger Consort. Along with her husband, celiist John Moran, she co-directs the chamber orchestra Modern Musick which has performed to high acclaim in Washington. Ms. Browder teaches baroque violin and viola at Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and co-directs their period instrument orchestra, Baltimore Baroque Band.
    Risa enjoys putting together all the strands of her musical life, teaching and performing, and seeing where it takes her.  She also loves cooking, reading, sudokus, and biking.