Raven Olmstead is a music educator and violinist.
She teaches Suzuki violin and early childhood music education. Raven is the Elementary School Violin/Viola instructor at the Denver Waldorf School, and regularly performs chamber music throughout the state with Front Range Chamber Players. She is a recording studio artist for Hooves and Sugar studio. Raven has performed professionally in the United States, Canada, Costa Rica, and Italy.
Raven worked and volunteered with El Sistema for eight years, and partnered with Denver Community Music Academy to provide free music instruction to Denver School of the Arts students with financial need.
Raven attended several esteemed international festivals, notably: Interlochen, Montecito, Interharmony Italy, and Domaine Forget. She performed in master classes for Vadim Repin, Midori, Brian Lewis, Vadim Gluzman, and Paul Kantor. Raven holds a Bachelor Degree in Violin Performance, as well as a Suzuki Violin Pedagogy Graduate Certificate from the Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver.
During her free time, Raven makes sourdough bread, chases her PR’s on Peloton, and enjoys Colorado’s expansive outdoor playground with her husband, Mike, and two sons.