Belinda Viesca, M.M.
A native of Mexico City, completed her Bachelor’s degree with Cum Laude honors in Cello Performance at the University of Houston. She has also achieved, with Magna Cum Laude honors, a Master’s Degree in Cello Performance from Texas Christian University. She has done pre-bachelor studies in Mexico City, Maastricht Conservatory of Music (Holland) and Louisiana State University as well as post-graduate studies at the Boston Conservatory.
She has received Academic Honors from the United States “National Dean’s List” in 2003 and 2004, the “Chancellor’s List” in 2004, the “Phi Kappa Lambda Music Honors Association” in 2007 and the “National Scholars Honors Society” in 2007.
She has studied cello with Laszlo Varga, Andres Diaz, Rhonda Rider, Franz Van Der Grinten, Dennis Parker, Vagram Saradjian, Christopher Costanza, Jesus Castro-Balbi, Gayane Mntoya and Elizbetha Krengiel. She has studied chamber music with Jose Feghali, Harold Martina, Curt Thompson, Andrew Mark, Max Levinson, Judith Eissenberg, Janice Weber, Danwen Jin, Jayn Rosenfeld, Davide Cabassi and Henk Guittart.
Ms. Viesca has had master classes with Aldo Parisot, Phillipe Muller, Matt Haimowitz , Shauna Rolston, Richard Aaron, Hans Jergen Jansen, Anthony Arnone, Alvaro Bitran, Richard Markson, Stefan Popov, Owen Carman, Judith Gordon, Lila Brown, Max Levinson, Karen Basrak, Bion Tsang, Norman Fischer, Bayla Keyes, Audobon String Quartet, Shanghai String Quartet and the Saint Petersburg String Quartet.
Belinda has performed as a soloist in Mexico with the Jose Pablo Moncayo Youth Orchestra, “Vida y Movimiento” Symphony Orchestra and the Hidalgo University Symphony Orchestra in Pachuca, Hidalgo. She has given recitals in Mexico and the US. At the age of 17 won her first orchestra job (5th chair) at the Carlos Chavez Symphony Orchestra. She has played principal cello at the Jose Pablo Moncayo Youth Orchestra, “Vida y Movimiento” Symphony Orchestra, the MIT Chamber Orchestra, the Boston Conservatory Symphony Orchestra and the TCU Symphony Orchestra.
At the present, she plays as principal cello with the San Angelo Symphony Orchestra and as section cello with the Irving and Plano Symphonies. She is the appointed cello professor at the Preparatory School of Music at the Texas Christian University.
In the fall of 2008, Belinda was awarded a full scholarship to develop her musicianship and cello playing at the Banff Centre of the Arts in Canada as a creative resident artist.
