She holds a bachelor’s degree from Illinois Wesleyan University, a master’s degree from the University of Southern California, where she studied with Robert Lipsett, and a doctorate from USC in early-music performance, where she studied with James Tyler, Ingrid Matthews and Elizabeth Blumenstock. She has devoted much of her professional career to the study of historically informed performance on period instruments. In 1999, Feldman cofounded La Monica, a period instrument chamber ensemble dedicated to performing music of the Baroque period. She has played with the Baroque Band in Chicago, Seattle Baroque, Los Angeles Baroque and Musica Angelica. She is an active member of the Bach Collegium San Diego, Tesserae, and Les Surprises Baroques. She is currently on the early-music faculty at USC and teaches string performance at the Ocean Charter School. TOP