Felicia Moye, violin
Ms. Moye has performed throughout Europe, Asia, North and South America as soloist and chamber musician with groups such as the Miami String Quartet, Orpheus and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. Ms. Moye was first violinist of the Miami String Quartet when the group won top prizes in both the Evian and London International String Quartet Competitions and recorded with the group under the Pyramid Records label. Ms. Moye was a founding member of the trio Amade (Klavier Records label) and currently performs with Trio Latino in residence in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She has also performed chamber music in collaboration with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Blossom Music Festival, the Mostly Mozart Festival in Avery Fisher Hall and Yo Yo Ma.
Ms. Moye has served as concertmaster of the Santa Fe Opera and Honolulu Symphony and as acting concertmaster of the San Francisco Symphony. In the fall of 2005, she performed as concertmaster of the National Arts Centre Orchestra under the direction of Pinchas Zukerman for their opening three weeks and for their tour of Canada.
Felicia was an adjudicator, representing the United States, for the inaugural "Tchaikovsky's Homeland" International Competition which will be held in Vitensk, Russia. She has also served as adjudicator for Concert Artists Guild in New York.
Felicia Moye was recently professor of violin at The Glenn Gould School of The Royal Conservatory of Music, having come from the University of Oklahoma where she was concertmaster of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic.
Felicia has enjoyed her collaboration with Masters Music Publications and has published editions of works by Vieuxtemps and Alkan. She is a very enthusiastic teacher and is frequent guest artist and coach of the New World Symphony and is faculty for the International Festival-Institute at Round Top. The New York Times has acknowledged her for her "rich, precisely balanced sound, a broad coloristic palette...and seemingly unflagging energy."