With a delicate harmony of creative and technical mastery, Meg Bonta brings her thoughtful musicianship and a prayerful stillness to each audience with the historic sounds of scordatura on solo violin.

In 2023, Bonta premiered her professional work with scordatura in a solo violin performance at Carnegie Hall in New York. She is currently the primary string soloist for the Diocese of Gary, performs solo throughout the United States, and is publishing two pedagogical works.

Serving as both a professional violinist and educator, Bonta performs and teaches according to a prayer - “Be still.” With this, she is currently composing in scordatura to create what she calls, “a cathedral of sound.” Just as a cathedral is the visual representation of the architect’s faith, she seeks to create that experience in sound both on stage and through her original compositions.

The program’s unique tones were designed to inspire an atmosphere and emotion of what the original composer believed the scenes in the life of Jesus and his mother Mary were like in three Mysteries of the Rosary – the Joyful, Sorrowful, and Glorious. Bonta was recently featured for her work in the NWI Catholic publication.

Throughout her career, Bonta has performed both nationally and internationally. Since 2017, Bonta has served as the featured soloist for the Catholic Foundation, which provides scholarships and funding to schools and programs.

She co-founded SoundTide Music School in 2016, where her students have accepted and achieved over $1.7 million in college scholarships. Through SoundTide, she and the faculty specialize in classical training from beginner to advanced levels.

Bonta is currently a member of the Music Teachers National Association, the American String Teachers Association, and the Viola da Gamba Society. She won the Outstanding Educator Award and the Diocesan Director Award in 2015.

Bonta graduated as magna cum laude, earning a Bachelor’s degree from Valparaiso University in music and biochemistry, along with a degree from Christ College. She also continued post graduate work at Indiana Wesleyan University. Bonta began playing the violin at age 5 and studied under the instruction of violinist Karl Linden.

She went on to study with June DeForest and Daniel Morganstern of the Lyric Opera in Chicago and Metropolitan Opera House in New York. Bonta completed her formal studies with renowned violinist, Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) Assistant Concertmaster and Civitas Ensemble founder, Yuan-Qing Yu.