Arruda took part in the most relevant festivals in Brazil, and has played in masterclasses for musicians such as Leon Spierer, Guy Braunstein and Menahem Pressler. In the US she attended the Colorado College Music Festival, a full-scholarship program. She holds prizes from national competitions in Brazil and has appeared as a soloist not only in her home country with several orchestras, such as the Sergipe Symphony Orchestra and Experimental Repertoire Orchestra, but also abroad, in Romania and the US. Arruda recorded the “Concertino for Violin and Orchestra” by Ernst Mahle with the Campinas Youth Orchestra in 2006. In New Mexico, she has been a regular at Church of Beethoven performing chamber music and solos, and can be heard in many ensembles in the state, such as Santa Fe Pro Musica and Santa Fe Symphony. In 2008 she won an audition and held a one year position with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra. She has soloed with the UNM Symphony Orchestra as a Concerto Competition winner and with the Albuquerque Philharmonic. She is currently studying baroque violin interpretation, completing Suzuki and String Pedagogy training at UNM and teaching at the Lab School. Arruda will be performing with Willy Sucre & Friends on September 17, 2010 and November 14, 2010. |
Roberta Arruda was born in Joao Pessoa, Brazil and began playing the violin during a sojourn in the US when she was ten. She holds a Bachelor´s degree in music from Unicamp, Brazil, and recently completed a Master´s in Performance at the University of New Mexico (UNM). She spent two years at the Budapest Music Academy on a full-scholarship from Vitae Foundation from Sao Paulo, and later studied with Rudolf Koeckert from the Munich Hochschule für Musik und Kunst.