Lisa Shihoten

Lisa Shihoten (born in Chicago, Illinois) is an American violin soloist, chamber musician and teacher.

A member of the critically acclaimed Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players,[1] Shihoten is an active and significant presence in New York City's classical music scene.

Her former teachers include Dorothy DeLay, Masao Kawasaki and Peter Oundjian.

She is married to organist Ken Cowan and was teaching violin at Princeton University, also a guest instructor at the Betty Haag Academy of Music in Chicago, where she works with her childhood violin teacher, Betty Haag-Kuhnke.

She is currently a faculty violin instructor at the Michael P. Hammond Preparatory Program at Rice University in Houston.