Belinda Viesca
Cello

Belinda Viesca, 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 a Master’s Degree in Cello Performance from Texas Christian University. She has done pre-graduate 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 the National Dean’s List Academic Honors 2003-2004 and 2004-2005, the Chancellor’s List Academic Honor 2004-2005, the “Phi Kappa Lambda Music Honors Association” Academic Honor 2007 and the National Scholars Honors Society Academic Honor 2007-2008.

Belinda has performed as a soloist in Mexico with the Jose Pablo Moncayo Youth Orchestra, “Vida y Movimiento” Symphony Orchestra and the Symphony Orchestra of Pachuca Hidalgo also 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 principal cello with the San Angelo Symphony and plays as section cello with the Irving and Plano Symphonies.

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