Filipino violist Gerry Varona joins the Vietnamese orchestra from Brazil
The Sun Symphony Orchestra (SSO) in Hanoi has announced the appointment of Gerry Varona as its new associate principal violist.
Varona is originally from the Cebu City, Philippines and has spent most of his career as an orchestral violist in Brazil, performing with the Orquestra Filarmônica de Minas Gerais.
Varona received a master of music in viola at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he received the Barbara and David Jacobs scholarship and won the university’s concerto competition. He earned a bachelor of music from Louisiana State University, where he won the 2007 Dean’s Concerto Competition, as well as first prize at the 2009 Louisiana Viola Society competition under the Southern American Viola Society.
He counts Jerzy Kosmala, Atar Arad and Matthew Daline as his teachers. As a chamber musician, Varona has performed with Duo Parnas and served as violist of the Guignard Quartet in Brazil.
The orchestra expressed its delight in the new appointment: ’We couldn’t be happier to have him with us!’ said the SSO on social media.
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