Joelle Arnhold has appeared as a featured young artist at the Kennedy Center, Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival, and the Rome Chamber Music Festival.  She is the recipient of both the Olga Von Hartz and Israel Dorman Memorial Award for Strings from the Peabody Conservatory, where she also served as the head Humanities Department teaching assistant, and as a Music Theory faculty associate. She has been featured as lecture-recitalist and Emerging Artist recitalist at the American Viola Society Festivals.

In addition to teaching violin and viola at The Bryn Mawr School, Dr. Arnhold directs the orchestras at the Levine School in Silver Spring, and enjoys a private violin/viola studio in Baltimore. As a guest educator, Dr. Arnhold has given masterclasses, recitals, and lectures at the University of Minnesota, Bethany College (KS), Macalester College (MN), and Utah State University.

Dr. Arnhold is, with her brother, developer Garrett Arnhold, a co-creator of the music collaboration and Google-published app, Cyborg Llama.  Cyborg Llama has about 5,000 users across 27 countries, including secondary and university music educators, as well as professional chamber music concert series.

She is also enjoys arts administrative work as orchestra manager for The Occasional Symphony, and from 2016-2018 as a consultant to Peabody's academic affairs and registrar's office, where she overhauled the conservatory class schedule to accommodate two new degree programs.

​She holds degrees from the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University (B.M., summa cum laude), and the Peabody Conservatory (M.M. and D.M.A.) where she studied with Victoria Chiang.