Violist, SYDNEY WHIPPLE, is native of Oakland, California. She made her orchestral debut at age 17, performing the Walton Viola Concerto with the Yuba Sutter Symphony, and has since appeared as a soloist with the Baden-Baden Philharmonic, and Eleva Chamber Players.

Sydney began her pre-collegiate studies at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Dimitri Murrath. She has now spent six years in New York City earning her Bachelor of Music degree (2024), and soon, her Master of Music degree (to be May 2026) from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Carol Rodland and now Misha Amory. She is a proud recipient of a Kovner Fellowship.

A passionate chamber musician, Sydney has participated in chamber and solo programs including The Perlman Music Program, Music@Menlo, and the Carl Flesch Academy. She is currently a member of the DragonBoot String Quartet in the Juilliard Honors Chamber Music program. In their first six months together the quartet won Grand Prize at the Coltman Chamber Music Competition and Second Prize at the St. Paul String Quartet Competition. This season, DragonBoot will present concerts with Lincoln Center, Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota, If Music Be the Food NYC, MATA Festival, and Eleva Chamber Players, as well as present a program that reimagines medieval music.