Meet Our Artists
Veronica Salas, viola
Chilean violist Veronica Salas, earned her DMA from the Juilliard School where she studied with Lillian Fuchs. As recitalist, Ms. Salas has traveled to Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Philippines where she played recitals and gave master classes. Ms. Salas has also given five New York recitals including her highly successful debut at Weill Recital Hall. As soloist she has performed with the Aspen Festival Orchestra, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of New York, and most recently with the Colonial and Westfield Symphonies of which she is principal violist. An active chamber musician, Ms. Salas is a member of The Modern Works String Quartet, The Pierrot Consort and The Queens Chamber Band in which she also plays concerti on Viola D’amore. Her classical music recordings include a Virgil Thomson CD, and, as violist of the Elysium String Quartet, an all Mozart chamber music CD and the Bach Brandenburg concerti featuring Lukas Foss. Presently, Ms. Salas is principal violist of the Opera Orchestra of New York, Manhattan Philharmonic and on the faculties of New York University, Long Island University and the Bennington Chamber Music Conference.
