Dalia Shvartsman is an avid violinist, violist, and teaching artist. She currently holds teaching
positions at The Philadelphia School and Temple Music Prep, where she teaches Suzuki and traditional violin and viola.

Shvartsman attended The Pennsylvania State University as a Schreyer Honors Scholar, where she earned a Bachelor of Musical Arts in Violin Performance studying with Professor James Lyon and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. Dalia completed her Master of Music at the University of Delaware,where she studied violin with Professor Xiang Gao, and viola with Professors Elias Goldstein and Jeremy Berry. She remains deeply grateful to her teachers before college, including Peter Sirotin and Marina Kozlova. Shvartsman is a registered Suzuki teacher, having completed training at the Greater Washington and Japan-Seattle Suzuki Institutes, and is a member of the Greater Philadelphia Suzuki Association. Reflecting her studies in both music and psychology, Shvartsman's honors thesis, titled The Role of Music in the Development of Emotional Granularity in Children, was published through Penn State University Libraries in 2024. It researched how music learning helps children develop the skills to recognize and name emotions in themselves and others. Building on this research, Shvartsman started the SoundWorld Music Program: a series of workshops and concerts geared toward developing auditory emotional awareness, empathy, and expression in elementary school children.

Previous festivals Dalia has taken part in include the Karen Tuttle Workshop, Castleman Quartet
Program, Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, San Francisco Conservatory String Intensive,
Chamber Music in Grantham, and Yiddish New York. Beyond performing and teaching, she is passionate about singing Russian and Ukrainian songs, making arrangements and transcriptions of traditional Jewish music, translating Russian poetry in English, and being with her family. Dalia plays on an Oliver Radke violin, generously loaned to her by the Virtu Foundation.