Felix Barradas
Felix completed his Master’s degree in Violin Performance in December 2008 and his second Master’s degree in Violin Pedagogy in 2009 at Texas Tech University School of Music where he has been a student of Professor Kirsten Yon. He was a Texas Tech teaching assistant in Violin and the Concertmaster of the TTU Symphony Orchestra from 2006-2009. He was also a member of the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra (LSO) and the LSO String Quartet. During that time he played as substitute in orchestras such as the Midland-Odessa Symphony Orchestra and the Big Spring Symphony Orchestra.
He has been a member of the Suzuki Association of the Americas as a Suzuki trained teacher since 2008.
In November of 2011 he won the third place in the first National Violin Competition hosted in Zacatecas, Mexico. He has been part of numerous music festivals like Puebla Intrumenta Verano in 2003 and 2004, Festival Internacional De Campos Do Jordao, in Sao Paulo Brazil in 2005, the Texas Music Festival in 2006 at the University of Houston, Aguascalientes Music Festival in 2006 and 2010, Festival de Musica de camara de San Miguel de Allende in 2003, 2006 and 2011, The Quartet Program in 2007 at Eastman School of Music (NY) and in 2008 at University of Boulder, Colorado. At the Kent Blossom Music Festival in 2009 at Kent University he performed as part of the Cleveland Orchestra.
He has been the featured soloist with the Xalapa Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Music Orchestra of Xalapa, and the Texas Tech University Symphony Orchestra.He is now obtaining his Doctorate degree in Violin Performance at the University of Houston and is one of the Concertmaster in the University Symphony. He is currently co-founding the Siqueiros String quartet.