Marion Peraza,
Artistic Advisor and Coach

The Nouveau Program supports increased participation in classical music by African American and Latine student musicians by providing equitable opportunities for music study and performance. The Nouveau Program includes several groups, and students must audition to participate. Nouveau members receive weekly chamber coaching, perform throughout the season, and participate in age-appropriate workshops and activities. Nouveau ensembles include Novice, Apprentice, Chamber Players and Winds. The Nouveau Program is supported by the D’Addario Foundation; the CSO’s Multicultural Awareness Council; Queen City (OH) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated; PricewaterhouseCoopers; and The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation.

Violinist and Nouveau Program coach Marion Peraza began her musical career as a member of Venezuela’s Youth Orchestra System, El Sistema. As a member of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, she toured Japan, France, Spain, Mexico, Colombia and Brazil, among others, and performed on seven recordings. She owns the Peraza Music Workshop (PMW), where she teaches private violin lessons, coaches award-winning chamber ensembles and offers theory classes. The PMW is a Founding School of the Carnegie Hall Royal Conservatory Achievement Program. As a guest teacher/clinician, she has taught at the Western Springs Suzuki Talent Education and Elmhurst College in Chicago, the University of Vermont, University of Louisville, University of Southern Maine, Bermuda Music School, Conservatorio de Bogotá and Simón Bolívar Conservatory in Venezuela. Peraza is also the director and founder of the Encore Advanced Chamber Orchestra, a summer program at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Her principal teachers are José Francisco Del Castillo (Simón Bolívar Conservatory), Margaret Pardee (Juilliard School), the Tokyo Quartet and the Vermeer Quartet. Peraza will join the string faculty at Miami University in 2023 teaching violin and viola.

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