Michelle Vaughn

Michelle is a violinist, teacher, and program coordinator with a strong love of music and young people.  Michelle grew up in Puyallup, Washington and started playing violin through her public school strings program. Michelle’s formative years were spent at Central Washington University learning how to play and teach the violin from Carrie Rehkopf and John Michel, how to be a productive member of a symphony from Dr. Nikolas Caoile and how to be a great educator and program administrator from Dr. Bret Smith. She married her wonderful husband Kevin Vaughn while in college and together they settled in Wenatchee in the same house that Kevin grew up in.  

Michelle is concertmaster for the Wenatchee Valley Symphony Orchestra, the program director for Wenatchee Valley Youth Orchestra, and mother of a 1st and 2nd grader.