Come one, come all! Join us at the Marigny Opera House for a special side-by-side concert featuring our NOLA Chamber Fest Community Partner students and educators. Celebrating the announcement of our 2023 festival, it will be an afternoon of chamber music, community and celebration. See you there!
Increasingly recognized as a versatile and passionate performer, Brazilian-born violinist Moises Bonella Cunha has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician throughout Brazil, Italy, Russia, and United States. Moises has been featured as a soloist with major Brazilian symphonic and chamber orchestras, including Bahia Symphony Orchestra, Porto Alegre Symphony Orchestra, and Theatro Sao Pedro Chamber Orchestra. Moises has also performed on Brazilian television such as TV Educativa and TV Senado as a soloist of the Projeto SESI Catedrais.
At the invitation of renowned pianist Arnaldo Cohen, Moises Cunha performed a solo recital for a full audience at the prestigious Sala São Paulo in Brazil. Passionate about chamber music, Moises is Artistic DIrector of the Northern Neck Chamberfest, and a frequent artist at the Northern Neck Chamber Music Series in Virginia.
Since 2018, Moises has served as Concertmaster and Artist-in-Residence of the Northern Neck Orchestra in Virginia and makes regular appearances with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in New Orleans.
Moises is passionate about educational outreach, and has given numerous masterclasses in the United States and Brazil. He has given masterclasses at Xavier University of Louisiana, FUNDARTE, and Pelotas Federal University, and frequently presents masterclasses, and coaches chamber music and orchestra sectionals to the Orquestra Jovem Recanto Maestro in his native Brazil. He has also been a guest artist at Loyola University New Orleans, working closely in sectionals with undergraduate and graduate students in orchestra repertoire. Dr. Moises Cunha is director of the Crescent City String Academy and the Crescent City String Camp & Festival in New Orleans.
Violinist Elizabeth Almond Crute Cunha enjoys an active career as a chamber musician, orchestra player, and music educator. As the winner of the Augusta Symphony’s Concerto Competition, she performed Haydn’s Violin Concerto in G Major with the Augusta Symphony. Elizabeth was a member of ARCO Chamber Orchestra and was involved in multiple performances and recordings of classical and contemporary music with the ensemble. She toured with ARCO in Italy, which included performing at the 2011 UNESCO Conference in Venice at Teatro La Fenice. In 2018 she was featured as a soloist with the Tidewater Intergenerational Orchestra and she also performed with the Molto Chamber Ensemble for the First Lady of the Republic of Haiti in New Orleans. As an orchestral musician, Elizabeth has performed with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Rapides Symphony Orchestra, Northern Neck Orchestra, Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra, Brevard Philharmonic, Augusta Symphony, Asheville Jazz Orchestra, North Georgia Chamber Orchestra, and Hendersonville Symphony Chamber Orchestra. In 2021, Elizabeth performed with Bell’Anima Productions in Recanto Maestro, Brazil. She has performed with popular artists including the Trans-Siberian Orchestra and Sarah Brightman, and appeared in Showtime’s On Becoming a God in Central Florida. Elizabeth currently performs regularly for the Fever Events Candlelight Concerts series throughout New Orleans.
A passionate music educator, Elizabeth is the Co-Director of the Crescent City String Academy, where she teaches private lessons, group classes, and chamber music, and is the founder and artistic director of the Crescent City String Camp & Festival. It is her aim to instill a life-long love of music and intellectual curiosity in her students through developing a strong technical foundation while focusing on music as artistic expression. She has worked with the Greater New Orleans Youth Orchestra, the Louisiana Academy of Performing Arts, and as the Children’s Program Director and a chamber music coach with the Philadelphia International Music Festival.
Catherine Matushek grew up in Pittsburgh, PA, where she started playing viola in school at age 8. She moved to New Orleans in 2015, and became a member of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in 2019. She also plays in the Radio Bird Quartet, which performs original pop and rock arrangements.
Catherine earned her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she also studied Suzuki Pedagogy. She teaches privately and is the lead teacher for the LPO’s “Music for Life” program.
Catherine lives in Gentilly with her husband, Michael, their cats, Clover and Percy, and a rotating assortment of foster kittens from the Louisiana SPCA.
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May 20, 2023 | 5:30 PM
Longue Vue House and Gardens
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