Jeremy was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana and has spent most of his life in the north Houston area where he started playing violin at the age of eleven. While playing in his high school varsity orchestra, Jeremy also had the opportunity to play in the Conroe Youth Symphony as the lead soloist. Shortly after…

Romanian violinist Tinca Belinschi performs widely as a chamber and orchestral musician. Tinca is currently one of the young artists in DaCamera Chamber Music program. Tinca holds awards from various national and international competitions, including John Oliveira String Competition, Alhambra Concerto Competi…

Originally from North Carolina, Abigail Bracewell is an active piano and violin teacher and performer currently centered in Houston, Texas. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Violin Performance from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro under Marjorie Bagley. She recently finished her Master of Mu…

Keisha Cassel was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She has been performing on Violin since 2003.

Keisha’s had opportunity to study alongside the Cleveland Orchestra, as a part of the Cleveland State University Orchestra, and at the Steinhardt School of Music. She received her BA in Music from Smith College in 2013…

Originally from Haiti, Kris Jennyma moved to Canada, Ottawa with her family at a young age, where music was a big part of her life. She had the opportunity to study with a number of great violinists, including Barbara Vogel. She received a music scholarship to study at Loyola University of New Orleans where …

Dustin Cunningham is a locally grown Houston area violinist. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah before his family relocated to Texas, opening the door for him to begin studying the violin in school at the age of 10. Since then, he has been inseparable from his violin and making music, having played in orches…

Helen Dowd is a native of Lincoln, NE, and comes from a large musical family. At age 6 she
learned violin and piano with both Suzuki and traditional methods and in 8th grade, she began
playing viola and has since performed in many quartets as a violist. As early as high school,
Helen started her own violin…

Jonathan Echevarria began his studies on viola at age sixteen with Philadelphia Orchestra’s Assistant Principal, Kerri Ryan. Prior to viola, Mr. Echevarria studied piano, violin, and cello with members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Bay-Atlantic Symphony, and Delaware Symphony. He graduated Cum Laude with a…

Native Houstonian, Omar Escobedo, began his musical journey playing violin at the age of 10 followed by cello and piano at the age of 15. As principal cellist and assistant principal for the section, Omar participated in the American Festival for the Arts Summer Music Conservatory early in his career. Omar we…

Violinist, Tracy Gibler began playing the violin at the age of 7 through the Suzuki program and performed with the Texas All-State orchestras all four years of high school. She went on to study with Dr. Kirsten Yon at the University of Houston and graduated summa cum laude in 2016. During her undergraduate st…