Groundbreaking violinist and Indiana University Jacobs School of Music professor emerita Jorja Fleezanis dies at 70

The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music is deeply saddened to announce the death of Jorja Fleezanis, Dorothy Richard Starling Chair Emerita in Violin Studies, at the age of 70. She died on Friday, Sept. 9, at her home in Lake Leelanau, Michigan.

Fleezanis was appointed professor of music in violin in 2009 and served on the Jacobs School of Music faculty for more than a decade, including as Henry A. Upper Chair in Orchestral Studies and Dorothy Richard Starling Chair in Violin Studies.

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