Candice has a versatile career as an orchestral musician, chamber musician, and teacher. Originally from North Potomac, Maryland, she moved to Tucson, Arizona in 2014 to start her career with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, where she currently holds the position of Assistant Principal Viola. Along with her work at the TSO, Candice is the Artistic Director of the Tucson Chapter of “If Music Be the Food,” a concert series that raises support for people facing food insecurity in communities around the country.  She has also performed with the Phoenix Symphony, Arizona Friends of Chamber Music, Santa Cruz Foundation for the Performing Arts, and Grammy-nominated True Concord Voices & Orchestra.

In addition to performing, Candice has established herself as a sought-after teacher in Tucson, where she maintains a private studio of violin and viola students. Previously, she served as a visiting faculty member at the University of Arizona’s Fred Fox School of Music, where she taught a full studio of undergraduate and graduate viola students, as well as chamber music and orchestral repertoire classes. 

Candice received a Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music and a Master of Music degree from the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University, where she earned a full scholarship for artistic merit. Her primary teachers include Carol Rodland, Victoria Chiang, and Li-Kuo Chang. Summer festival appearances include the Aspen Music Festival (CO), Aldeburgh Festival (UK), Britten-Pears Programme (UK), National Orchestral Institute (MD), Manchester Music Festival (VT), and Castleton Opera Festival (VA).

Candice plays on a viola made by Georges Chanot I in 1878, a bow made by James Tubbs c. 1890, and a modern bow made by Donald Cohen.