Bettina Mussumeli

  Frost School of Music, University of Miami

Violin soloist, pedagogue, and clinician Bettina Mussumeli enjoys a storied and varied career as a concert artist on the great stages of the world. While completing her artist diploma at the Juilliard School, she was offered the position of co-concertmaster and violin soloist of the Italian chamber orchestra “I Solisti Veneti," which performed over 200 concerts yearly around the world. With this orchestra, she toured for nine years as a featured soloist and recorded numerous albums, including seminal recordings of the Pergolesi violin concerto and Vivaldi "L’estro Armonico.”

Mussumeli returned to the United States in 2001 to join the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) as professor of violin and chamber music. Her students at SFCM include winners and finalists of the Menuhin, Paganini, and Stradivarius competitions, as well as outstanding professional violinists working throughout the world. While in San Francisco, Mussumeli was the first violinist of the Ives Quartet for 10 years. Mussumeli currently serves on the faculty of the Frost School of Music and the Zephyr Chamber Music Festival, and she maintains a varied concert calendar as both a soloist and chamber musician.