Megan Mason Lecturer in Music, Applied Viola

Wilson Hall 3030
mmason@wlu.edu

Megan Mason is Associate Professor and Chair of the Division of Fine and Performing Arts at Southern Virginia University. She is also adjunct faculty at Washington & Lee University. Previously, she was on faculty at the Gifted Music School in Salt Lake City, Utah. While there, she co-founded Viola Band, an interactive, improvisatory performance group for young violists, and was the director of Summer Kids Camps, fostering creativity and a love of playful learning through the arts. Ms. Mason currently holds the position of Orchestra Coordinator for the Intermountain Suzuki String Institute.

A sought-after violist, she has been Principal Violist of the Ballet West Orchestra, a member of the Orchestra at Temple Square, a composer and arranger, a busy recording artist, and Founding Violist of the internationally-renowned Tesla Quartet, with whom she won the Gold Medal at the 2012 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition and prizes from the 2012 London and 2013 Bordeaux International String Quartet Competitions. Ms. Mason has been a guest performer and/or educator at festivals in Virginia, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Michigan, Montreal, New York, California, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, France, England, and Germany. She holds degrees from the University of Michigan and the Juilliard School and completed a three-year professional residency at the University of Colorado at Boulder, studying under the world-renowned Takacs Quartet.