Violist, SYDNEY WHIPPLE, is native of Oakland, California. She made her orchestral debut at age 17, performing the Walton Viola Concerto with the Yuba Sutter Symphony, and has since appeared as a soloist with the Baden-Baden Philharmonic, and Eleva Chamber Players.

Sydney has spent the past six years in New York City studying at The Juilliard School, where she earned her Bachelor of Music degree in 2024 and will complete her Master of Music degree in May 2026. At Juilliard, she has studied with Carol Rodland and currently studies with Misha Amory, and she is a proud recipient of a Kovner Fellowship. Prior to college she studied with Dimitri Murrath at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

A passionate chamber musician, Sydney is a member of the DragonBoot String Quartet in the Juilliard Honors Chamber Music program. In their first six months together the quartet won Grand Prize at the Coltman Chamber Music Competition and Second Prize at the St. Paul String Quartet Competition. This season, DragonBoot will present concerts with Lincoln Center, Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota, If Music Be the Food NYC, MATA Festival, and Eleva Chamber Players, as well as present a program that reimagines medieval music.