Gayna Bassin teaches traditional violin and viola to students from age 7 to adult, with emphasis on reading skills, technique and musical style. The Bassin Strings Studio is located in Montgomery, Ohio. She has been a faculty member at the Cincinnati String Academy at the Center for the Arts in Wyoming, Ohio, since 1997, and she also teaches at Cincinnati Country Day School.

Mrs. Bassin received a Bachelor of Music Degree from the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Ivan Galamian, Jaime Laredo, and Jascha Brodsky. She received a Master of Music Degree from Indiana University at Bloomington, IN, where she studied with Josef Gingold. She studied chamber music with members of the Guarneri, Curtis and Budapest Quartets.

Mrs. Bassin was a member of the First Violin section of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra from 1976-1996, and played Concertmaster with the Cincinnati Community Orchestra from 2003-2004. She currently freelances and performs often with Musica Sacra in Cincinnati.

She has performed in many international music festivals, including the Blossom Music Festival (Kent State University, Ohio), the Tanglewood Music Festival, the New York String Orchestra with Alexander Schneider, the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, and the Orchestra de les Jeunesses Musicales with Leonard Bernstein and Michael Tilson Thomas.

She was a soloist with the Colorado Philharmonic Orchestra, the Windsor Symphony, and the Cincinnati Community Orchestra. She has also played many solo and chamber music recitals in Cincinnati, Dayton and Indiana.

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