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Renée Moore-Skerik, newly appointed Assistant Professor of Viola at
Texas Tech University and 2004-2005 recipient of the McKnight Foundation
Award for Performing Artists, has led an active and varied career. A
highly regarded teacher, she has served on the faculty of the MacPhail
Center for the Arts in Minneapolis , Carleton College , The Quartet
Program at Bucknell University , and was an Artist/Teacher for two
summers at the Boston UniveTanglewood Institute. Former violist of the
award-winning Artaria String Quartet, she has also been violist in the
Mendota String Quartet and the Nidon String Quartet, with whom she gave
a four-month tour of Japan including nationally televised concerts. Her
chamber music collaborations include performances with Janos Starker,
Raphael Hillyer, Charles Castleman and Arnold Steinhardt. As a
free-lance violist she has performed with renowned artists such as
Luciano Pavarotti, the Bolshoi Ballet, and the San Francisco Ballet.
Renee has been Assistant Principal Viola of the Dallas and Ann Arbor
Chamber Orchestras and has also performed with the San Antonio ,
Columbus , Grand Rapids , and New World Symphonies. She is a four-time
recipient of the prestigious Orchestral Fellowship to the Aspen Music
Festival, and has also performed in the Spoletto, New Mexico , and
National Repertory Orchestra festivals. Renee holds degrees from the
University of Michigan and the Eastman School of Music. Her major
teachers include Heidi Castleman, Jeffery Irvine, Yizhak Schotten, Ellen
Rose, and Korey Konkol. Viola
To contact Renée Moore-Skerik, email
rskerik@bigzoo.net.
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