Dr. Jeanne Bourgeois Swanson has been Assistant Concertmaster of the Spokane Symphony Orchestra since 2008.  She has a doctorate in violin performance from the Eastman School of Music, a masters from Northwestern University and an undergraduate degree from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.  Her teachers include Charles Castleman, Almita and Roland Vamos, Kurt Sassmannshaus, Piotr Milewski, Thomas Wermuth and Elmira Darvarova.  Jeanne has previously held orchestral positions with the Syracuse Symphony, Sarasota Opera, Utah Festival Opera, and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. She was Associate Concertmaster of the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra and has also served as Concertmaster of the Spoleto USA Festival Orchestra in Charleston, S.C.

As a soloist, she has performed with the Spokane Symphony Orchestra, Starling Chamber Orchestra (Cincinnati), Spokane Youth Symphony as well as the West Suburban Symphony Orchestra (Chicago).  She is on the substitute list with the Seattle, Vancouver and Oregon Symphonies.  She is currently on faculty at North Idaho College and has taught at Eastern Washington University, Whitworth University, Washington State University String Camp and also maintains a large private violin and viola studio in Spokane.  In her free time, Jeanne enjoys the great outdoors, cooking and traveling with her husband, Stephen Swanson and daughter, Roslyn. She plays on a Henricus Catenar violin (1670) and an A. Vigneron bow.