Dr. Braunwin Sheldrick is Associate Professor of Viola at Baylor University, where she fosters healthy, expressive playing through a motion-based approach grounded in Paul Rolland pedagogy. Her career spans solo, chamber, and orchestral performance, conference presentations, and masterclasses. She has performed in Canada, the United States, Colombia, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, and England, and appeared as soloist with the Universidad EAFIT Symphony Orchestra and the Medellín Philharmonic Orchestra. A dedicated advocate for Latin American repertoire, she has recorded Trios americanos para clarinete, viola y piano and De Europa a las Américas with the trio Aquarimántima, and two albums with pianist Andrés Gómez Bravo—Colombian Music for Viola and Piano and Latin American Music for Viola and Piano. A third album, focused on Latin American women composers, is forthcoming.

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Dr. Sheldrick has presented masterclasses throughout Colombia as well as at the Eastman School of Music and the University of Tennessee. Her students have participated in festivals such as Aspen, Verbier, Domaine Forget, Sewanee, Campos do Jordão, and Green Mountain, and have been accepted to graduate programs at the Mozarteum (Salzburg), Royal Academy of Music (London), the University of Music and Performing Arts (Vienna), and leading U.S. institutions including North Texas, UNC School of the Arts, Southern Illinois Edwardsville, Longy, Duquesne, and Rutgers. Before joining the Baylor faculty, she served as Professor of Viola at Universidad EAFIT in Medellín (2008–2025), and previously taught at the University of Rochester and as teaching assistant to George Taylor at the Eastman School of Music. She holds degrees from McGill University (BMus), Temple University (MM), London’s Royal Academy of Music (PGDip), and the Eastman School of Music (DMA).