Banerdt is a founding member of the Ulysses String Quartet, winner of the First Prize at the 2018 Schoenfeld International Chamber Music Competition, Grand Prize at the 2016 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, First Prize at the 2017 American Prize Chamber Ensemble, and Silver Medal at the 2017 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition. Ulysses was named the graduate string quartet in residence at the Juilliard School for the 2019-2022 academic years.

A recipient of the 2012 Borromeo String Quartet Guest Artist Award, Banerdt was invited to perform with the quartet in Jordan Hall.  Other collaborations have included performances with the Chiara Quartet, Kim Kashkashian, Paul Biss, and Frans Helmerson.  Banerdt has participated in numerous eminent chamber music festivals including La Jolla Summerfest, Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, Taos School of Music, and the Castleman Quartet Program. 

Banerdt holds the position of assistant concertmaster with the Cape Symphony. She held one of two violin fellowships for the 2013-2015 seasons with the flagship music education organization Community MusicWorks in Providence, Rhode Island, where she taught individual lessons and group classes for disadvantaged youth and performed regularly with the Fellows String Quartet and Community MusicWorks players. Banerdt has been a member of the violin and chamber music faculty at the Bloomingdale School of Music on New York City’s Upper West Side and was a graduate teaching fellow at Brooklyn College from 2016-2019. 

A native of Los Angeles, Banerdt attended the New England Conservatory, where she received her bachelor's and master’s degrees with honors as a student of Lucy Chapman and Paul Biss, and is a doctoral candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she studied with Mark Steinberg.

Education

• B.M., M.M., New England Conservatory