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April Kondrat is currently the Director of Orchestras at Plano Senior High School in Plano, TX, and Principal Violist with the Plano Symphony Orchestra. She was a regular substitute violist with the Dallas Symphony and Dallas Opera until pursuing a full-time career as a music educator. An advocate for the viola, Kondrat was the founder of ViolaWorkshop which ran from 2012-2015 and had a thriving studio of violists from around the metroplex before becoming a full-time orchestra director. She continues to offer private lessons, sectionals and clinics on the viola and is always striving to help music educators understand the mystery behind this fine instrument. Her clinic, “Raising Violas”, was presented at the 2015 TMEA Clinic and Convention in San Antonio in partnership with Mary Havenstrite and again at the Art of Teaching Orchestra at 51°µÍø. She also regularly performs chamber music and has performed new works for the viola with student orchestras in the area. Kondrat is an avid runner and resides in Plano with her husband and three musical children.