Courtney Bonifant is a violist and educator currently based in Olmsted Falls, Ohio. Originally from a small town in New Hampshire, she graduated from the Eastman School of Music with a Bachelor of Music degree in viola performance and with a Master of Music degree in viola performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music in 2011. Her primary teachers include John Graham, Carol Rodland, and Lynne Ramsey. 

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Ms. Bonifant enjoys a career as both a performer and an educator. She currently holds a section position with the Erie Philharmonic Orchestra and is a former member of the Jackson and Lansing Symphony Orchestras in Michigan. She has performed in a substitute capacity with the Ann Arbor and Flint Symphony Orchestras in Michigan, and the Akron, Canton, and Toledo Symphony Orchestras in Ohio. An avid chamber musician, Ms. Bonifant appears often throughout Northeast Ohio in string duos, trios, and quartets, playing for a variety of events.

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Ms. Bonifant began her training as a Suzuki violin instructor with Kimberly Meier-Sims at CIM, and has completed numerous other Suzuki violin and viola training courses with Carrie Reuning-Hummel, Sarah Bylander-Montzka, Mark Mutter, Gail Johansen, and April Losey. Ms. Bonifant is committed to continuing education in her field and regularly attends institutes and workshops around the country.

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Ms. Bonifant is a member of the Suzuki Association of the Americas and has held faculty positions with the Ann Arbor Suzuki Institute and The Music Settlement's Suzuki Program in Cleveland, and has been a guest instructor of group classes at the Sato Center for Suzuki Studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Ms. Bonifant currently maintains a private home studio of violin and viola students.

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For more information about the studio, or to inquire about lessons, please visit the Teaching page.

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