Alondra Damian-Noyola is a violist from Naples, Florida, currently studying at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance under Caroline Coade, third chair violist of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Alondra was a 2023 fellow at the Round Top Festival Institute, which has impassioned her love for orchestral music. Alondra has performed with the University Philharmonia Orchestra and the University Symphony Orchestra under the batons of Jayce Ogren and Kenneth Kiesler.

Alondra received the Grand Prize in the 2022 Naples Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition, in which she had the opportunity to debut with the Naples Philharmonic, and won Second Place in the 2022 and 2021 Music Foundation of Greater Naples Scholarship Competition.

Alondra has enjoyed participating in chamber music festivals such as the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, Credo Music, the Hilton Head Chamber Music Institute, and the Sphinx Performance Academy at the Curtis Institute and the Cleveland Institute of Music. Alondra has performed in viola masterclasses with Peter Slowik, Kirsten Docter, Stan Konapka, Heinrich Koll, Ronald Houston, Roger Meyers, Brett Deubner, and Roberto Diaz. Since starting her education at the University of Michigan, Alondra has had the opportunity to receive chamber music coachings from Annie Fullard, Katherine Votapek, and Amir Eldan.

Alondra began private lessons at age twelve with Mrs. Lisa Mattson, Assistant Principal Violist of the Artis Naples Philharmonic through the generosity of the Music Foundation of Greater Naples’ Haegg Scholarship. Throughout high school, she also enjoyed partaking in other student orchestra opportunities, such as the Florida All-State Orchestra in 2020 and 2022, and the New World Side by Side Ensemble in 2022.

Alondra is also pursuing a minor in Arts Administration and champions her identity as a First-Generation student. Outside of music, she enjoys spending time with friends, thrift shopping, and trying ice cream shops around Ann Arbor.

Alondra plays on a Raymond Schryer viola on generous loan from the Virtu Foundation