Lila Brown, (viola) is co-founder and artistic director of Music from Salem since 1986. After graduating from the Juilliard School she joined the Boston Symphony. She subsequently left to study with Sandor Vegh and become principal violist of the Camerata Academica in Salzburg under his direction. Ms. Brown then spent seven years as an assistant professor at the Vienna Hochschule, six years as a member of the Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt and and from 1997 through 2009 was a professor at the Conservatory in Düsseldorf, Germany. Brown now lives and performs in Boston, and teaches viola and chamber music at the Boston Conservatory and at the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music.