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Evelyn Estava
Violinist Evelyn Estava
has earned recognition as one of the top performing artists in her native
Venezuela. She has made many guest soloist appearances with orchestras in North and South
America, including the Mexico State Symphony, the Simón Bolivar Youth Orchestra of
Venezuela and the Orquesta Sinfonica de Falcó. At age 15, Ms Estava became a member of the
Simón Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, the crowning jewel of that country's celebrated
music education program "El Sistema". Later she won the Associate Concertmaster position in
the Orquesta Filarmónic Nacional, where she was also the first violinist of that orchestra's string
sextet. Ms. Estava completed her musical studies at the Simón Bolivar Conservatory in Caracas,
where she was a student of José Francisco Del Castillo. She has studied chamber music with
Josef Gingold, Philip Setzer, Lawrence Dutton and Arnold Steinhardt, and performed for six
years at the Killington Music Festival in Vermont, where she was a scholarship student and
assistant of Margaret Pardee. She has also played in Master Classes for Augustin Dumay, Olivier
Charlier, Ruggiero Ricci, Eugene Fodor and Henryk Szeryng. Ms. Estava performs regularly
with the Harrisburg Symphony, the Hudson Valley Philharmonic and the Westfield Symphony,
and is in the Faculty at Felician College and Vermont Music and Arts. She currently serves as
concertmaster of the Plainfield Symphony, and is the first violinist of the Madison String
Quartet. With this group she has recorded their first CD, "Life is a Dream", which includes
music from North and South America. As winner of the Artists International Special Presentation
Award, Ms Estava made her New York debut in 2005 at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall.
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