MEGAN JULYAN-HOLLAND
She has held the position of Principal Second Violin in the Charleston Symphony Orchestra and member of the CSO String Quartet since 2001. In addition to her duties as Principal Second Violin, she also performed as soloist with the CSO on several occasions. In 2004, award-winning composer Fernando Rivas of Sesame Street fame composed a duo for her and her husband James which was premiered on the Charleston Symphony Orchestra's Chamber Music Series. She has given critically acclaimed solo and chamber music performances in the Piccolo Spoleto Chamber Music Spotlight Series. She also has been a member of the Breckenridge Music Festival Orchestra, a summer orchestral and chamber music festival under the baton of Gerhardt Zimmermann, since 2002. In 2003 she performed as soloist with that orchestra. She has performed in the Breckenridge Music Festival's Winter Concert Series. She has appeared as soloist with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra and the Albuquerque Philharmonic. She has been a faculty member at the Charleston Academy of Music for four years and a guest faculty member at the Tennessee Valley Music Festival and The Strings Summit in Cullman, Alabama. She has coached the violin section of the Front Range Youth Orchestra and taught violin in a classroom setting in the inner city public schools of Los Angeles as part of the Young Musicians Foundation outreach program. She has also been a frequent guest clinician in the public school system of Fort Worth, Texas. Originally from Albuquerque, Megan began studying the violin at age four with Susan Kempter, nationally renowned pedagogue, author and Suzuki teacher trainer. She later studied privately with Leonard Felberg, former Professor of Violin at the University of New Mexico. She won first prize at the Las Cruces Concerto Competition in 1993, performed Saint-Saens' Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso with the Las Cruces Symphony that same year and also won the Albuquerque Youth Symphony Concerto Competition, performing the first movement of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto on their tour of Canada. She received a Bachelor of Music from the Cleveland Institute of Music studying with David Updegraff, head of the Violin Department. She was awarded a Master of Music degree and an Advanced Studies diploma in the prestigious studio of Robert Lipsett at the University of Southern California, where she was selected as Concertmaster of their Chamber Orchestra. She attended the ENCORE School for Strings, exclusive summer music program, from 1992 to 1999 and attended the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Germany in 2000 and the National Repertory Orchestra in 2001.
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