Orion Series in Fine Arts
String Masterclass with Krista Bennion Feeney, violin

Guest artist Krista Bennion Feeney works with UVic School of Music string students. All are welcome to attend.

Krista Bennion Feeney has enjoyed an unusually varied career, much in demand as a soloist, chamber musician, music director, and concertmaster. She is the founding first violinist of the DNA Quintet, Loma Mar Quartet, and Ridge String Quartet (1979-1991), which, along with pianist Rudolf Firkusny, won the Diapason d’Or and a Grammy Award nomination in 1992 for its RCA recording of Dvorak’s Piano Quintets. Krista is concertmaster of Orchestra of St. Luke’s and has been a member of St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble since 1983. She is the founding first violinist of the Serenade Orchestra and Quartet, specializing in music of the late 18th and 19th centuries with historic instrumental configurations. She has soloed several times with the San Francisco Symphony (debuting in the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto at age 15), and with the St. Louis Symphony, Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Mostly Mozart, and New York String Orchestra.