David Felberg
Violinist
Currently the associate concertmaster of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra. A native of Albuquerque, he performs regularly throughout the Southwest as concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber musician.
He has performed as concerto soloist with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, Albuquerque Philharmonic, Noisy Neighbors Chamber Orchestra, Tucson Symphony, and the Chautauqua Music School Festival Orchestra. David has performed solo recitals in Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Los Alamos, Clovis, Portales, and most recently on the Outstanding Artists Recital Series for the Emerald City Opera in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. David recently made his New York City recital debut in Merkin Hall in June of 2005.
As a chamber musician, he has been a faculty/performer with the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, and from 1993-97 was a member of the Helios String Quartet. He is a regular on every chamber music series throughout New Mexico, including The Albuquerque Chamber Soloists, Noisy Neighbors, Taos Chamber Music Group, Serenata of Santa Fe, Los Alamos Coffee Concerts, and the Placitas Artists Series, and has performed the Mendelssohn Octet with the Takacs Quartet in Boulder, Colorado in April of 1998.
Also active as a conductor, David has conducted the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra in performances of The Nutcracker ballet, and he made his operatic conducting in the summer of 2003 in The Emerald City OperaÕs production of The Magic Flute, He is also currently the music director of the Albuquerque Philharmonic, and founder and conductor of Chatter, a chamber ensemble, a group dedicated to performing 20th and 21st century music. David received a bachelor of arts in History from the University of Arizona, and a masters of music from the University of New Mexico, and has taken advanced string quartet studies at the University of Colorado.
