Increasingly recognized as a versatile and passionate performer, Brazilian-born violinist Moises Bonella Cunha has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician throughout Brazil, Italy, Russia, and the United States. Moises has been featured as a soloist with major Brazilian symphonic and chamber orchestras, including Bahia Symphony Orchestra, Porto Alegre Symphony Orchestra, and Theatro Sao Pedro Chamber Orchestra. He was also a soloist with Camerata Florianópolis, UNICAMP Symphony Orchestra, and SESI Chamber Orchestra. In the United States, he was a soloist with the University of Georgia Symphony Orchestra, ARCO Chamber Orchestra, and the Northern Neck Orchestra. Moises has also performed on Brazilian television such as TV Educativa and TV Senado as a soloist of the Projeto SESI Catedrais.

Passionate about chamber music, Moises is Artistic Director of the Northern Neck Chamberfest, and a frequent artist at the Northern Neck Chamber Music Series in Virginia. He has also been a Festival Artist with the Crescent City Chamber Music Festival in New Orleans, collaborating with members of the Manhattan Chamber Players. At the invitation of renowned pianist Arnaldo Cohen, Moises Cunha performed a solo recital for a full audience at the prestigious Sala São Paulo in Brazil. Moises is a founding member of the Delachaise Ensemble, an innovative and genre-defying ensemble presenting concerts and educational outreach throughout the Gulf region.

He has served as the Concertmaster of the Indiana University Symphony Orchestra during the Indiana University Summer Music Festival. Since 2018, Moises has served as Concertmaster and Artist-in-Residence of the Northern Neck Orchestra in Virginia. He also performs regularly with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in New Orleans.

A devoted and passionate educator, Moises Cunha has given numerous masterclasses in the United States and Brazil, including Loyola University New Orleans, Greater New Orleans Youth Orchestra, Xavier University of Louisiana, FUNDARTE, and Pelotas Federal University, and currently directs and teaches at the Crescent City String Academy and the Crescent City String Camp & Festival in New Orleans. He is a frequent Artist-in-Residence with Recanto Maestro Youth Orchestra in his native Brazil, where he presents masterclasses, and coaches chamber music and orchestra sectionals. In 2020, Moises was a guest artist at the Goiás Federal University International Music Festival, in its virtual format.

Moises Cunha holds a B.M. and a M.M. from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music where he was a recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship, Conrado Wessel Foundation Scholarship, The Scott C. and Kathrin Schutz Latin American Scholarship, and the Artistic Excellence Award. Moises Bonella Cunha completed the D.M.A. at University of Georgia in the spring of 2018. His primary mentors include Mauricio Fuks, Kevork Mardirossian, and Levon Ambartsumian.

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The chamber concert this past Sunday by a trio of outstanding musicians brought a new level of excellence in the genre to this area. A large audience at Good Luck Cellars showed its appreciation by repeated stand-up ovations and shouts of Bravo! [...] The musicians were of the highest quality, the program was a brilliant mixture of standards classics and contemporary music from South America and the execution was powerful. It was a magical hour and a half of chamber music as close to perfection as I have heard in my many years of concert-going.
— Terry Greene for the Rappahannock Records
We found the performance to be of the best quality, technically and musically, of the many we have enjoyed in the Gellman Room virtual series. We thank you and the Richmond Public Library for continuing to offer this series while we all enjoy lockdown.
— Patron of the Gellman Room Concert Series

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