The Florida Orchestra at The Dalí

Violin- Jina Lee

Violinist Jina Lee grew up in Ithaca, NY before moving to Baltimore, MD to complete her undergraduate studies at the Peabody Conservatory and Johns Hopkins University. She received bachelor’s degrees in violin performance and recording arts and sciences as well as a minor in Spanish for the professions. At Peabody, she studied with Shirley Givens, also serving as her teaching assistant. Jina has had the privilege of traveling the world to perform throughout the US, Canada, China, South America, the UK, and Europe. She has been awarded fellowships to attend the Tanglewood Music Center, Aspen Music Festival and Verbier Music Festival. She has also performed with the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra in Charleston, SC, serving as concertmaster. Jina was a fellow with the New World Symphony under music director Michael Tilson Thomas from 2009-2012. There, she found opportunities to be active in community engagement and began to explore innovative methods of reaching new audiences. She is a firm believer in the power that music has, to unify, heal, and strengthen communities, as well as to bring about social change. Her passion for making live classical music accessible to everyone has inspired her to curate concert programs for a variety of settings including a “club concert” for string quartet and DJ at a Baltimore club, yoga classes, and a multi genre performance for the annual Green Festival held for BSO Orchkids. Jina performed with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for six years, and during that time, she was very active in performing chamber music for BSO community outreach events and worked frequently with BSO’s Orchkids program as a teaching aid for group classes. She also served as a mentor through the BSO Orchlab program, coaching high school string orchestras.
Currently, Jina is the Violin Teaching Artist with the Florida Orchestra, working with the Education and Community Impact team to increase their social impact in the Tampa Bay community. In addition to performing with TFO, she performs regularly as a guest musician with the Philadelphia Orchestra

Violin – Vivek Jayaraman

Vivek Jayaraman is a violinist with The Florida Orchestra and the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra in Switzerland. He has performed in the string sections of several major U.S. orchestras, including The Cleveland Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, and New York Philharmonic and served as Concertmaster for orchestras in Shreveport, Canton, Knoxville, Jacksonville, and Vancouver. During the summer, Vivek performs with the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra in Switzerland and the Sun Valley Music Festival Orchestra in Idaho.
A former Fellow of the New World Symphony in Miami, Vivek’s primary mentors include Charles Castleman, Glenn Dicterow, William Preucil, and Gabor Takács-Nagy. Originally from Lansing, Michigan, he holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music, Manhattan School of Music, and the Cleveland Institute of Music.

Viola- Derek Mosloff

Currently the principal violist of The Florida Orchestra, Derek Mosloff is also an avid solo and chamber musician and was an active performer in the Boston are, serving as the principal viola of the Orchestra of Indian Hill, as well as violist in Discovery Ensemble, among others. He was invited to solo in Mozart’s “Sinfonia Concertante” with Boston’s Symphony by the Sea on 24 hour’s notice. He currently performs widely in the Tampa Bay Area, has been a guest on the Palladium Chamber Music series, and serves as adjunct professor of viola at the University of Tampa.
In 2008, he was awarded a fellowship to Tanglewood Music Center, and he was invited to return for the 2009 and 2010 seasons and as a New Fromm player for the 2011 and 2012 seasons. He has also been a recurring guest for the Chelsey Music Festival in New York City.
Mosloff completed his master’s degree at the New England Conservatory under Roger Tapping, and his undergraduate studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln under Jonah Sirota.

Cello- David Bender

Cellist David Bender joined The Florida Orchestra in January 2023. David received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The Juilliard School as a student of Joel Krosnick and Natasha Brofsky.
Originally from Nashville, Tennessee, David began studying the cello at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music at the age of five. In 2016, he was selected to be a part of Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Orchestra of the USA, where he performed throughout Europe under the baton of Valery Gergiev and Christoph Eschenbach as principal cellist. In 2017, David was featured on NPR’s “From the Top,” hosted by Christopher O’Riley.
David has attended a number of prestigious summer festivals including the Music Academy of the West and the Taos School of Music. As a winner of the 2018 Keston MAX fellowship at Music Academy of the West, David was awarded the opportunity to perform three concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle. An avid chamber musician, David has studied with the Juilliard, Brentano, American, Shanghai, and Jupiter string quartets.
David has performed under the direction of David Robertson, Alan Gilbert, and Marin Alsop as principal cellist of the Juilliard Orchestra. A recipient of the Gluck Community Fellowship, Da-vid engaged in musical outreach to various hospitals, nursing homes, and cancer treatment cen-ters throughout New York City.
David plays on a contemporary cello made by Peter Goodfellow, generously on loan from the Virtu Foundation.

The Florida Orchestra

The Florida Orchestra’s mission is to INSPIRE | EDUCATE | UNITE to build community through the power of music. With a core of 70 full-time musicians and conductors, TFO is the largest professional orchestra in the state, under the bold artistic leadership of internationally acclaimed Music Director Michael Francis. Celebrating its 58th season, the orchestra serves more than 150,000 people each year through a wide variety of concerts, impactful education programs and vibrant community initiatives across Tampa Bay.

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