Interim Director of Chamber Music, Vocal Music
Email:听smunoz@holycross.edu
BM, New England Conservatory
MM, Eastman School of Music
DMA, The Juilliard School
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Biography
Chilean violist Sergio Mu帽oz 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, Dr. Mu帽oz Leiva is active in chamber music, solo, and orchestral settings. His repertoire spans from early Baroque to music that is fresh off the press, performed on both modern and baroque viola. He has premiered works by Paola Prestini and Nico Muhly, and has collaborated with artists such as Kinan Azmeh, Dinuk Wijeratne, Masaaki Suzuki, Rachel Podger, Monica Huggett, Robert Mealy, Daniel S. Lee, Emi Ferguson, Laurie Smukler, Catherine Cho, Natasha Brofsky, Areta Zhulla, Carol Rodland, Kim Kashkashian, Mikhail Kopelman, Ren茅e Jolles, and Steven Doane. He is a member of the Providence Baroque Orchestra and has performed as a guest artist with A Far Cry, Palaver Strings, Carnegie Hall鈥檚 Link Up Orchestra, the United Nations Chamber Music Society, the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, 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; and the Municipal Theater in Santiago de Chile. His musical mentors are Penelope Knuth, David Holland, Dimitri Murrath, Kim Kashkashian, and Carol Rodland. 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 doctoral dissertation is entitled 鈥淧aul Hindemith鈥檚 Harmonic System and Its Application to a Structural Analysis of the Schwanendreher Variations.鈥 His research interests include musical analysis, Latin American folk music, and music as a catalyst for community building.
Dr. Mu帽oz Leiva joined the Department of Music of 海角社区 as Interim Director of Chamber Music in September 2022. He also currently serves as Music Theory Instructor at Project STEP in Boston. Previous teaching appointments include serving as Studio Teaching Assistant to Carol Rodland at The Juilliard School, as Instructor of Viola for Non-Majors at the Eastman School of Music and the University of Rochester, and as Teaching Artist at City College Academy of the Arts in New York.