San Diego native Wanda Law has a Master’s degree in Viola Performance. She studied at Northwestern University with Chicago Symphony violist Robert Swan, and at the University of Nebraska with Robert Emile, former concertmaster of the San Diego Symphony. She returned to San Diego in 1985, studying with Michael Tseitlin and performing regularly with the San Diego Symphony as a substitute musician. She was a long-time member of the Pacific Symphony Orchestra in Orange County and a member of the San Diego Opera Orchestra. She has been a fulltime member of the San Diego Symphony since 2006.
Wanda Law does double duty as fiddler and classical violist. Ms. Law has enjoyed playing Irish fiddle for over twenty years. She and her husband Ian, who plays Irish flute, are members of the Siamsa Gael Ceili Band, one of the area’s oldest traditional Irish music groups.
In 1986 Wanda won the Grand National Irish Fiddle Championship in Los Angeles and that same year joined the staff of the Lark in the Morning traditional music and dance camp in Mendocino, where she continues to teach fiddle classes every summer. (Wanda also took up the French diatonic button accordion there, and was even featured on a recent Summer Pops concert on this instrument.) She has appeared several times as fiddle soloist with the San Diego Symphony for their popular “Celtic Celebration” Winter Pops concerts.