JOAN
DERHOVSEPIAN
Instructor Orchestra
Repertoire
JOAN DERHOVSEPIAN became a member of
the Houston Symphony in 1999 after serving two seasons as Principal
Violist of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra. She has been an instructor
in Viola Orchestral Repertoire at the Shepherd School of Music
since the fall of 2001. As a member of the Everest String Quartet,
Ms. DerHovsepian concertized throughout the U.S. and Canada and
won top prizes in the Banff and Fischoff competitions, as well
as holding the string quartet residency with the Midland-Odessa
Symphony. She played in the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra from
1992-94.
Ms. DerHovsepian performs in the Grand Teton Music Festival and the Peninsula
Music Festival each summer and has participated in the Aspen and Tanglewood Music
Festivals. She has been a soloist with the Peninsula Music Festival, the Charleston
Symphony Orchestra, the National Repertory Orchestra, and the Concord Chamber
Orchestra of Milwaukee. Ms. DerHovsepian was a top prizewinner of the 1995 William
Primrose Memorial Scholarship Competition. Her teachers include James Dunham
and Kim Kashkashian.
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