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Meet Ms. Debra Price, Violinist...
Violinist Debra Price
began playing at age nine. Tutored by her mother, Eunice W.
Price, and coached by Vera Barstow, she later studied with Endre
Granat at CSU Northridge and Eudice Shapiro at USC. Ms. Price
completed her post-graduate work at the Institute of Advanced Music
Studies in Montreaux, Switzerland with the renowned Zino
Franciscotti.
Her achievements include two-time winner of the
Annual Concerto Contest sponsored by the Los Angeles Music Teachers
Association; twice recipient of the Congress of Strings Scholarship
Award, where she performed with Yehudi Menuhin the Concerto
for Two Violins by Bach. Also a top winner in the Etude Music
Club Auditions; winner of the Senior Division of the California
String Teachers Association; three-time first place winner in the
Southwest Music Festival; recipient of the Jascha Heifetz
Scholarship Award from the University of Southern California.
She has appeared as soloist with several orchestras which
include the San Bernadino Symphony Orchestra, the Honolulu Symphony
(where Ms. Price was the assistant concertmaster for 3 years.)
She has appeared as a guest soloist with the San Fernando Valley
Symphony, the Los Angelses Concert Orchestra, the California
Institute of the Arts Orchestra, the Los Angeles Repertoire Chamber
Orchestra, the Pacific Palisades Orchestra, and a two-time performer
with the Glendale Symphony Orchestra. She was also featured on a TV
program with the renowned Sydney Harth, and has also served as
concertmaster on a number of theatrical musicals under the direction
of Kevin Farrell.
Ms. Price was adjunct professor at
Pepperdine University in Malibu, Ca. and was the founding member of
the Pacific Strings and Chanot Trio. She is a familiar face in
the Southern California classical music scene, as a long time member
of the Long Beach Symphony, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. She has
occupied positions as assistant concertmaster with the
Glendale Symphony Orchestra and as concertmaster with the Downey and
the Burbank Symphonies.
She has also been featured in
numerous chamber music and solo recitals throughout the world, and
has performed with the LA Master Choral, LA Opera orchestra, and
many others.
Ms. Price also currently records the music for
the motion picture, television and the record industries. She is
also currently featured weekly on stage at the Viva Cantina
Restaurant, which was written up in LA Weekly magazine, as the #1
entertainment spot in Los Angeles and "best kept secret".
For more about Debra
visit her
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