Consuelo Sherba, Viola

Consuelo Sherba is artistic director and a founder of the performance ensemble Aurea. Since 2004, she has performed with Aurea at Chicago Humanities Festival, NYU Humanities Festival, FirstWorks Providence, Pawtucket Arts Festival, Maverick Festival and throughout New England. She has been on the applied music faculty at Brown University since 1986, teaches at RI Philharmonic Music School, performs with RI Philharmonic Orchestra, Vermont Symphony and Buzzard’s Bay Music Festival and has served as principal violist of Simon Sinfonietta and Boston Virtuosi. She has performed with Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, Boston Pops, Grand Teton Music Festival, Carvalho Festival in Brazil, Aspen Music Festival, and Colorado Music Festival. She was a member of Atlanta Chamber Players, principal violist of Atlanta Chamber Orchestra, Atlanta Ballet Orchestra, and West Virginia Symphony. From 1983-2000, Consuelo was violist of Charleston String Quartet, in residence at Brown University, performing throughout the US and Europe. A graduate of LaGuardia School for the Arts and City College of New York, with graduate work at UMass Amherst, UWMilwaukee, and Aspen Institute for Advanced Quartet Studies, her major teachers were Felix Galimir, Bernard Zaslav and Philip Naegele, with coaching by Juilliard Quartet, Fine Arts Quartet, Budapest Quartet, and Eugene Lehner.

Upcoming Concerts: We’ve Gone Baroque June 4, 2025
Festival Finale June 10, 2025