Roseminna McLeod Watson, first violinist of the Aiana String Quartet, comes from a large family of visual, literary, and performing artists. At the age of four she began work on the violin and one year later finally acknowledged her need for some help with the endeavor. Her mother, Clyde Watson, taught her for the following six years until she went on to study at the New England Conservatory’s Preparatory School with Melba Sandberg and Magdalena Richter.

Roseminna has attended numerous prestigious summer music programs including Oberlin at Casalmaggiore in Italy, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, the Aur Academy in Hungary, Margesse International of Switzerland, The Heifetz Institute, and the Banff Centre For the Arts, and Yellow Barn Music School and Festival. She was the winner of the Brattleboro Music Center's Annual Concerto Competition (2001) and was awarded 1st prize in the Lebanon Opera House ‘Best of The Upper Valley’ competition (2002). In 2003, Roseminna was featured in the Nocturne Series at the Schubert Theater in New Haven as part of the International Festival of Arts and Ideas.

After earning her B.A. in Graphic Design from Yale University in 2005, Roseminna continued her musical studies at Stony Brook University where she completed a Masters of Music Degree while studying with Ani Kavafian, Pamela Frank, Phillip Setzer, Phillipe Graffin, and Soovin Kim. In 2009, Roseminna performed the Berg Violin Concerto with the Stony Brook Symphony orchestra as a winner of the 2008/2009 Concerto Competition.

This past spring, she completed an Artist’s Diploma in Chamber Music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where she studied violin with Ian Swenson and had the opportunity to collaborate in performance with numerous faculty and guest artists including Jean-Michel Fonteneau, Axel Strauss, Paul Hersh, David Tanenbaum, Jennifer Culp, Jodi Levitz and Menahem Pressler.