Canadian violinist, Dorothy Ro is a member of the acclaimed Verona Quartet, currently serving as Quartet-in-Residence at Oberlin Conservatory and College. With her quartet, she was recently named the recipient of the prestigious 2020 Cleveland Quartet Award and has performed on international stages that include London’s Wigmore Hall, Philharmonie de Paris, Melbourne’s Recital Hall, as well as Carnegie Hall and the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts.

Ms. Ro is a graduate of the The Juilliard School, New England Conservatory, Cleveland Institute of Music, Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, and the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. Her mentors include Paul Kantor, Donald Weilerstein, David and Linda Cerone, and Alex Kerr. She has served as teaching assistant at the Juilliard School and is on faculty at Oberlin Conservatory and College and the Indiana University Summer String Academy.