About

Brooklynn Thatcher (16) is “An exceptionally talented classical violinist whose dedication to her craft and extraordinary skill set her apart as one of the brightest young musicians of her generation.” (Fangzhou Jiang, COO Crimson Education). Brooklynn was presented 1st place and $1,500.00 in the 2025 Hilton Head Concerto Competition, 1st place in the Arizona International Music Competition where she was granted the Grand Prize for Best Violin Concerto Performance, and 1st place in the 2024 Southern Division MTNA competition where she will go on to compete at Nationals in March of 2025. As a soloist, Brooklynn has performed with the American Fork Symphony, the South Carolina Youth Philharmonic, and the Hilton Head Symphony. In December of 2024 Brooklynn made her Carnegie Hall debut at the age of 16 in Weill Hall.

Heralded for “demonstrating outstanding artistic achievements in the performing arts” (The National Foundation for the Advancement of Artists), Brooklynn is a New Horizons Fellow for the Aspen Music Festival and School, the recipient of the Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation Scholarship, and the 2025 National YoungArts Award Winner in Classical Music. In 2024 she was also named an “18 under 18” in the worldwide Crimson Education Visionary Initiative which highlights exemplary leaders under the age of 18 across the globe.

Brooklynn began her violin studies under the tutelage of her mother at the age of two. At seven she was accepted as the only student of Professor Burkhard Godhoff (Shanghai Conservatory) whom she studied with until his passing in 2020. She currently studies with Eugene Watanabe at the Gifted Music School.

Brooklynn has attended the Sounding Point Academy at the Colburn School studying under Fabiola Kim, Center Stage Strings Summer Performing Arts Institute at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor studying with Danielle Belen, and the Aspen Music Festival and School studying with Robert Lipsett.