Violin Masterclass with MET Orchestra Associate Principal Second Violin Sylvia Danburg Volpe
MET Orchestra Musicians Master Classes
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Program
October 5, 2025: Violin
– Panelist: Sylvia Danburg Volpe
Bruch: Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor, Op. 26; I. Vorspiel: Allegro moderato
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto No. 2 in E minor, Op. 64; I. Allegro molto appassionato
Mozart: Concerto No. 5 in A major, K 219; I. Allegro aperto
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VIOLIN: October 5, 2025
Sylvia Danburg Volpe - Associate Principal Second Violin
Sylvia Danburg Volpe joined the orchestra as Associate Principal Second Violin in the year 2000. A native of Houston, Texas, she began her undergraduate studies with Ken Goldsmith at the Shepard School of Music at Rice University, and completed her Bachelor of Music at Juilliard with Glenn Dicterow. She made her New York solo debut at Alice Tully Hall in 1996, where she was praised by the New York Times for “beautiful tone — both lyricism and virtuosity”. Sylvia plays with the MET Chamber Ensemble concert series at Carnegie Hall, and has performed a wide variety of classical and cross-over music both here and abroad. In addition to this, for several weeks a year she actively dedicates herself to the pursuit and refinement of the perfect Christmas cookie.
THE METROPOLITAN ORCHESTRA
Thrilling audiences with more than 200 performances each season, the MET Orchestra is one of the world’s great performing ensembles, both on stage and in the opera pit. Since its founding in 1883, the MET Orchestra’s performances have encompassed not only the entire opera repertoire, but symphonic and chamber programs at Carnegie Hall, international tours, and countless musician activities outside of the Metropolitan Opera House. The MET Orchestra has grown in the past four decades into an ensemble noted by singers, critics, conductors, and audiences as one of today’s most stylistically versatile and musically satisfying orchestras.
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