Tito Muñoz, violin, began his musical training on the violin at age thirteen studying with Hisako Resnick at the Juilliard School’s Music Advancement Program. A winner of the Richard Kimball Composition Award, he studied composition with Alexander Yagupsky at the Manhattan School of Music as a recipient of the Van Lier Memorial Scholarship.Mr. Muñoz has attended the Kinhaven and Apple Hill summer festivals and was a teacher at the Elizabeth Morrow String Festival in New Jersey. He has performed with many orchestras in the New York area and served as concertmaster of the Queens College Orchestra and the Astoria Symphony. He has won several concerto competitions and has also performed recitals at the Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music. He most recently appeared at Bargemusic with the Baroque Consort of New York.
On the podium, Mr. Muñoz served as assistant conductor of the ISO Symphonic Band and was on faculty at the French Woods Festival, assisting with the symphony orchestra and concert band, directing the chamber music program, and conducting many fully staged Broadway musical productions. He has conducted the Queens College Orchestra on several occassions and was apprentice conductor of the New York Youth Symphony. Mr. Mu–oz also participated as an "Academy Conductor" in the American Academy of Conducting at the Aspen Music Festival where he studied with David Zinman and Murry Sidlin. He also worked with such conductors as Robert Spano, Michael Stern, George Manahan, Asher Fisch, Marin Alsop, James DePreist, James Conlon, David Robertson, Osmo VŠnskŠ, Sergiu Comissiona, John Williams, and Alan Gilbert among others. He is the recipient of the 2005 Robert J. Harth Conductor Prize and will make his American conducting debut with the Cleveland Orchestra in August 2006.
Mr. Muñoz is currently a Bachelor of Music candidate at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College studying violin with Daniel Phillips of the Orion Quartet. He is a member of the Metropolitan Chamber Music Society, executive director and a founding member of the Sebastian Chamber Players, and music director of the Queens Philharmonic.
Musica Bella concerts: March 13, 2005; May 15, 2005
This bio last updated August 20, 2005