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Violist TomAs Fajardo’s career encompasses both, extended orchestral and chamber music experience. His orchestral experience includes Emmanuel Music in Boston, the Keene Chamber Orchestra in New Hampshire, the Mercury Baroque Ensemble of Houston Texas. Mr. Fajardo is principal viola of the Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra and a full time member of the Mobile Symphony Orchestra. He has performed and toured with the Jeunes Orchestra Atlantique in Saintes, France and the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Festival in Toronto, Canada.
As a chamber music player he has been a member of the University of Southern Mississippi Graduate String Quartet and of the Stretto String Quartet performing educational and outreach concerts. He has participated in many music festivals including Brevard Center for Chamber Music, Milwaukee Chamber Music Festival, Round Top International Summer Festival, Jeunes Orchestra Atlantique and Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, as well as principal viola for the Round Top, Texas Music Festivals and Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Festival Orchestra. He has studied chamber music with Roger Tapping, Terry King, Andres Cardenes, Roberto Diaz, Martin Lovett and Rotislav Dubinsky, and has been coached by members of the Amadeus, American, Fine Arts, Blair, Borodin, Pacifica and Ravel string quartets. He was the winner of the Honors Chamber Music Award at Longy in 2006.
Masterclasses have included Jeanne Lamon, Dana Maiben, Phoebe Carrai, Jessie Levine, Yuri Gandelsman, Rita Porfiris,Yuval Gotlibovich, Zoltan Toth and Roberto Diaz.
TomAs Fajardo holds a Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in viola performance from the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg where he studied with Michael Kimber. He also did graduate studies at The University of Houston with Rita Porfiris and recveived a Performance Diploma at the Longy School of Music in Boston where he studied viola with Roger Tapping, Michael Zaretsky(Boston symphony) and Orchestral Studies with Patricia McCarty (Former Assistant Principal of Boston Symphony)
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