DAVID FELBERG, violin, is currently Associate Concertmaster of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra. A native of Albuquerque, he performs regularly throughout the Southwest as concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. He has appeared as a soloist with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, Albuquerque Philharmonic, Noisy Neighbors Chamber Orchestra, Tucson Symphony, and the Chautauqua Music School Festival Orchestra. David has performed solo recitals in Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Los Alamos, Clovis, Portales, and most recently on the Outstanding Artists Recital Series for the Emerald City Opera in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. As a chamber musician, he has been a faculty/performer with the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, and from 1993-97 was a member of the Helios String Quartet. He is a regular on many chamber music series throughout New Mexico, including Albuquerque Chamber Soloists, Noisy Neighbors, Taos Chamber Music Group, Los Alamos Coffee Concerts, and the Placitas Artists Series, and has performed the Mendelssohn Octet with the Takacs Quartet in Boulder, Colorado in April of 1998. Active as a conductor, David has guest conducted both the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra and the Santa Fe Symphony and made his operatic conducting debut in The Emerald City Opera's production of The Magic Flute, He is currently the Music Director of the Albuquerque Philharmonic, and founder and conductor of Chatter, a chamber Ensemble, dedicated to performing 20th and 21st century chamber orchestra repertoire. He serves as principal conductor of Albuquerque Chamber Soloists. David received a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Arizona, a Master of Music in instrumental conducting from the University of New Mexico, and has taken advanced string quartet studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. In the summer of 2000, David was invited to attend the prestigious American Academy of Conducting at the Aspen Music Festival, where he worked with maestros David Zinman and Murray Sidlin, and with renown conducting pedagogue Jorma Panula