Recognized as an avid musician, Cuban-born violist Yunior Lopez enjoys an eclectic career as a chamber player, conductor, and entrepreneur. A recipient of many awards and prizes, Mr. Lopez began his career after winning a contract with the Las Vegas Philharmonic at the age of 18. An avid chamber musician, Mr. Lopez founded the Annex Quartet in September 2008. A prominent chamber music figure in Toronto, the Annex Quartet pushes the performance environment by appearing regularly throughout Toronto’s many bars, coffee shops, and concert halls. Recently, they teamed up with the Kronos Quartet for a joint concert at the Luminato Festival in downtown Toronto. Past highlights for the Annex Quartet include appearances at the Four Seasons Centre, Montreal Museum of Modern Art, the Weill Recital Hall, and Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall.

As an orchestral player, in 2006, Mr. Lopez joined Lukas Foss’s National Festival Orchestra as principal violist. Other orchestral experiences include principal viola of the Royal Conservatory Orchestra, the orchestra at the Kennedy Center’s Summer Music Institute, the Nevada All-State Orchestra, and the prestigious World Youth Symphony. As an emerging conductor, he has led the Academy Symphony Orchestra at The Royal Conservatory for many performances.

Mr. Lopez is an alumnus of the Domaine Forget Chamber Music Program and the National Arts Centre’s Young Artist Program in Canada, the Interlochen Arts Camp, the National Symphony Orchestra’s Summer Music Institute (SMI), and the Las Vegas, Green Valley, and Hot Springs Music Festival’s. His principal teachers include Steven Dann, Susan Barton, and David Holland. Other influences include conductors Uri Mayer and Mario Bernardi.

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