Meaghan has a Masters in Music, Suzuki Cello Performance from the University of Denver, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Cleveland State University. She has a strong background in teaching, as well as an abundance of experience performing in numerous orchestras.

Norah Joy Clydesdale comes from a family of musicians originating in Glasgow, Scotland. Her grandfather, Mr. Robert Clydesdale, was an orchestra conductor and cellist who immigrated to New York State in 1932. He sailed on a cruise ship with his family across the Atlantic performing trios aboard, and proceeded to continue his career as a cellist and teacher in upstate New York. Ms. Clydesdale’s parents were Stuart and Joyce Clydesdale. Stuart played the piano, while Joyce sang professionally in opera productions in California’s Bay Area. Norah started playing the piano at five years of age and the cello at eight. Cello soon emerged as her main instrument of study. Norah studied with Colin Hampton of the Griller Quartet and Andor Toth, Jr. of the Hungarian Quartet at the San Francisco Conservatory. She then traveled south to study with Gabor Reijto and Bernardo Segall at USC before culminating her training at Boston University. Ms. Clydesdale studied for seven years with world-renowned concert cellist and pedagogue George Neikrug. Ms. Clydesdale has participated in Masterclasses with Isaac Stern, Walter Trampler and Eugene Lehner of the Kolisch Quartet. She played professionally in the Boston area -  principally as a chamber musician performing the entire Beethoven Quartets Cycle with the Artaria Quartet before moving to Paris, France. In France, she was an active educator, teaching cello, violin  and the love of music to children and adults in Paris. Ms. Clydesdale also developed the string department at the Lycee Ombrosa in Lyon. France. Speaking French and Italian fluently, Ms. Clydesdale rounded out her career teaching music to young school children in Milan, Italy. Norah recently returned from Europe and is now an active performer and educator in Colorado. She has performed with the Grace String Quartet, as Assistant Principal of the Chamber Orchestra of the Springs and was Principal Cello of the Pikes Peak Philharmonic for three years. Ms. Clydesdale taught at Pikes Peak Community College for several years as well as maintaining the Clydesdale Music Studio in Colorado Springs from 2009-2013.

Norah performed with the Pueblo Symphony for ten years and was a founding member of the CSU-Pueblo Faculty Piano Trio – The Prometheus Trio with Dr. Zahari Metchkov, piano and Dr. Timothy Hsu, violin. Ms. Clydesdale was Cello Instructor and String Techniques pedagogue at CSU-Pueblo from 2012-2022.

Ms. Clydesdale was a founding member of the Raffaelli String Trio in Pueblo and the Scheherazade Piano Trio in Colorado Springs with Abe Minzer, pianist in 2023.