Flora Nevarez, a native of Washington State, is an active freelance violinist concertizing throughout Ohio and surrounding areas. She performs in the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra in West Virginia, and in orchestras throughout Northeast Ohio and Pennsylvania. Enjoying an eclectic mixture of genres, she can be heard on the motion picture soundtrack to the film One Day on Earth (2011). She has played violin for touring acts including the Trans-Siberian Orchestra and Barry Manilow, and plays violin and viola in the Euclid Avenue String Quartet in Cleveland, Ohio. She has taught violin and viola privately in Washington and Ohio since 2006.

 

Principal teachers include Alan Bodman at Meadowmount School of Music and the University of Akron, and Walter Schwede of Western Washington University. In her graduate year Flora was inducted into the national music honor society Pi Kappa Lambda, and was nominated by faculty Most Outstanding Graduate in Strings. She was the 2008 winner of 1 Prize (Local) in the Tuesday Musical Association Competition.

 

Flora has performed in master classes for string quartet by the renowned quartet Ethel and Owen Carmen of Meadowmount; and as a soloist in classes by Andres Cardenes, Jennifer Koh, David Updegraff, Jennifer Choi, and Denes Zsigmondy. She studies with Eli Matthews in Cleveland. She lives in Akron and listens to classical, ambient, and experimental music.