Moises Bonella Cunha, Violinist

Increasingly recognized as a versatile and passionate performer, Brazilian-born violinist Moises Bonella Cunha has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician throughout Brazil, Italy, Russia, and the United States. As winner of several competitions, Mr. Cunha has been featured as a soloist with major Brazilian symphonic and chamber orchestras, including the Bahia Symphony Orchestra, the Porto Alegre Symphony Orchestra, and the Theatro Sao Pedro Chamber Orchestra. He has also appeared as a soloist with ARCO Chamber Orchestra, the University of Georgia Symphony Orchestra, Camerata Florianópolis, the Santa Maria Symphony Orchestra, SESI FUNDARTE Chamber Orchestra, Caxias do Sul Symphony Orchestra, and Unicamp Symphony Orchestra, receiving excellent reviews. Solo appearances with orchestras include concerti by Bach, Bartók, Beethoven, Brahms, Glazunov, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Saint-Saëns, Sibelius, Vivaldi, and more. He has also performed on Brazilian television such as TV Educativa and TV Senado as a soloist of the Projeto SESI Catedrais.

Passionate about chamber music, Mr. Cunha is Artistic Director of the Northern Neck Chamberfest and the Northern Neck Chamber Music Series in Virginia. He is a frequent artist at the Bell’Anima Concert Series in Brazil, and has toured extensively across Brazil and abroad with Camera Ontoarte. At the invitation of renowned pianist Arnaldo Cohen, Mr. Cunha performed a solo recital for a sold out audience at the prestigious Sala São Paulo. He also performed alongside GRAMMY winner Craig Hella Johnson, featured as the solo violinist in his work “Considering Matthew Shepard.”

As an orchestral player, Mr, Cunha has served as the Concertmaster of the Indiana University Symphony Orchestra during the Indiana University Summer Music Festival, and has also performed with the Indiana University Early Music and New Music Ensembles. Since 2018, he has served as Concertmaster and Artist-in-Residence of the Northern Neck Orchestra, working closely with GRAMMY-winning conductor Michael Repper. He also performs regularly with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in New Orleans.

Mr. Cunha holds a B.M. and a M.M. from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music where he was a recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship, Conrado Wessel Foundation Scholarship, The Scott C. and Kathrin Schutz Latin American Scholarship, and the Artistic Excellence Award. Mr. Cunha completed his D.M.A. at the University of Georgia in the spring of 2018. His primary mentors include Mauricio Fuks, Kevork Mardirossian, and Levon Ambartsumian.

Mr. Cunha performs at CCCMF 2023 on October 18