Edith Yokley

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Edith Yokley is a violinist from Chicago. Ms. Yokley is a member of the Chicago Sinfonietta and Soulful Symphony in Baltimore. She has performed with such artists as CeeLo Green, J.Lo, Common, Barry White, Mos Def, Nancy Wilson, Andrea Boccelli, Sheila E., Smokey Robinson, Aretha Franklin, Donnie McClurkin, Richard Smallwood, Shirley Ceaser, Dennis DeYoung of the Styxx, and Diana Ross and the Supremes. Ms. Yokley has appeared on the Oprah, Today, and Conan O’brien Shows as well as The Voice. Edith received her master’s degree from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where, as a violin fellow, she studied with Professor Paul Kantor. While at the University of Michigan, Edith was a member of the University’s Mariach Troupe and subsequently began jazz improvisation. She has been featured on several CDs, including those of Alicia Keys, Faith Evans, Common, Donnie McClurkin, and Joe, and does session work in both Chicago and New York.

In 2009, Edith started DjViolin.com in which she and other musicians in her company improvise live with djs. MissEdith as she is known in this realm performs at Y, Cuvee, and other clubs and lounges in Chicago and the rest of the country. She is a member of the Covergirls Violin Show (a five-woman electric violin band) and a violinist with The Steve Edwards Orchestra in Chicago. Edith is a contractor in New York and Chicago, having contracted ensembles for such notable venues as the Apollo Theater and Rose Hall at Jazz at Lincoln Center, as well as recording sessions in New York. Edith is the orchestral instructor for the Apostolic Church of God’s youth Orchestra, a violin instructor at the Merit School of Music, and maintains her own private studio.

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