Wisconsin violist Madlen H. Breckbill lived in Berlin (Germany), working as an orchestral trainee with Konzerthaus Berlin, as the violist of the TAÏGA String Quartet in Denmark, and as a chamber music trainee with Villa-Musica in Rheinland Pfalz. Since her return to the US, Madlen has performed with Midsummer Music, Token Creek Chamber Music Festival, The Happenstancers, and Bach Dancing Dynamite Society, and has soloed with Itasca Orchestra. She founded the Stoughton Chamber Music Festival in 2019. Madlen is a graduate of UW-Madison, where she studied with David Perry, and the Glenn Gould School in Toronto, where she studied with Paul Kantor, Barry Shiffman, Erica Raum and Steven Dann. She is currently pursuing a masters in viola at UW-Madison as a Collins Fellow with Sally Chisholm.