JULY 2018

Chilean violist Sergio Muñoz Leiva is an advocate for dialogue, collaboration, and community building, which he realizes in music through his love for chamber music and education.

 

A curious and versatile performer, Sergio is active in chamber music, solo, and orchestral settings. Recent performance highlights include concerto appearances with violinist Adrian Anantawan, the Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms Society, and Shelter Music Boston in Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante; the American Repertory Theater premiere run of Dave Malloy’s Black Swan, a dance thriller musical; and the Boston stop of Rosalía’s Lux Tour with The Heritage Orchestra at TD Garden. He has collaborated with artists such as Paola Prestini, Nico Muhly, Nicholas Phan, Estelí Gómez, Kinan Azmeh, Dinuk Wijeratne, Masaaki Suzuki, Rachel Podger, and Monica Huggett. He is a member of the Providence Baroque Orchestra and the Boston Festival Orchestra, and has performed as a guest artist with A Far Cry, Palaver Strings, Cape Cod Chamber Orchestra, Rasa String Quartet, Portland String Quartet, Carnegie Hall’s Link Up Orchestra, the United Nations Chamber Music Society, and the Chile Chamber Orchestra. He has appeared in venues such as Jordan Hall and Symphony Hall in Boston; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alice Tully Hall, and Carnegie Hall in New York; the Municipal Theater National Opera House in Santiago de Chile; the Guangzhou and Shenzhen Opera Houses in China; the LVR-Landesmuseum in Bonn, Germany; and the Palazzo Ricci in Montepulciano, Italy.

 

His musical mentors are Carol Rodland, Kim Kashkashian, and the late Penelope Knuth. He is a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy and holds degrees from the New England Conservatory, the Eastman School of Music, and The Juilliard School. His research interests include musical analysis, Latin American folk music, and music as a catalyst for community building.

 

Dr. Muñoz Leiva is Director of Chamber Music and Viola Instructor at College of the Holy Cross. He also is Music Theory Instructor at Project STEP. Previous teaching appointments include Studio Teaching Assistant to Carol Rodland at The Juilliard School and Instructor of Viola for Non-Majors at the Eastman School of Music and the University of Rochester.

 

As a multilingual citizen of the world, Sergio enjoys the subtleties of language, linguistics, and semantics. When he is not musicking, he can be found in the swimming pool perfecting his butterfly stroke.