Lucia Neaga- Violin I

Lucia Neaga was born into a family with strong musical traditions. Her parental grandfather, Stefan Neaga, was a prominent composer, pianist and conductor, and is considered to be one of the founding fathers of the Moldavian professional music culture.
Her father George Neaga, who had a profound influence on her musical growth, was a concert violinist, teacher, and one of the most talented and well-known Moldavian composers.
Ms. Neaga began her early musical education and violin studies in her native Moldova, at the special Music School for Gifted and Talented Students in Kishinev and continued in Russia, at the Gorky State Conservatory, where she earned her Master’s and Doctor’s degrees in Violin Performance and Musical Theory. Ms. Neaga has taken part in prestigious international music festivals in Romania and France, and is a prizewinner in the All-Moldavian Competition and a finalist in All-Russia Violin Competition in Kazan, USSR.
She has performed as a violin soloist in such notable locations as the Organ Hall and Philharmonic Hall in Kishinev, the Music Academy and Ateneum Hall in Bucharest and the Gorky State Conservatory.
She participated in numerous international tours with Kishinev Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra to Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland and Romania.
Ms. Neaga has also had a prominent teaching career since 1988, in Moldavian State Conservatory, and in both the Moldavian and Russian Special Music Schools for Gifted and Talented Students.
In the year 2000, Ms. Neaga received a Diploma for Special Merits by Students’ Education in Science, Culture and Art Field from the President of Moldova. One of her students became a Prizewinner in Romania’s most prestigious International Concourses - “G. Georgescu”, “G. Enescu”, and “Jeuinesses Musicales”, and is now studying violin under Emuanuel Borok, the Concertmaster of Dallas Symphony, in Houston, TX.
Ms. Neaga currently plays with different ensembles including Dallas Chamber Orchestra, and is the Concertmaster of Allen Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. In the year 2002, she played a recital at University of Texas at Arlington, and in 2004 she played Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with Allen Philharmonic Symphony. She now teaches in an Elementary Strings program in McKinney, and gives private lessons at home in Allen, TX.