Fia Durrett, violin
Violinist Fia Mancini Durrett is originally from Houston, Texas. She made her debut with the Houston Symphony at the age of 18, playing the Brahms Violin Concerto. Fia holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the Juilliard School, where she served as concertmaster of both orchestras. An avid chamber musician, she was a prize winner in the Fischoff and Coleman Chamber Music Competitions, and a finalist in the Concert Artist Guild International Competition.
Since moving to Atlanta in 2004, she has been a tenured member of the Atlanta Opera Orchestra and served as a visiting professor at Georgia State University. Most recently, she was the first violinist of the Vega String Quartet, artists-in-residence at Emory University. Fia spent summers at the Aspen Music Festival, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and the Spoleto Festival in Italy, where she was concertmaster of the orchestra. She also co-founded Fringe Atlanta, which puts gifted composers, musicians, and visual artists together to showcase their talent in a fresh experience of the arts. Her primary teachers include Kenneth Goldsmith, Masao Kawasaki, and Paul Katz.
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Instruction
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