Yvonne Creanga, Viola
Yvonne Creangă, Violist
Romanian-born violist YVONNE CREANGĂ enjoys a varied career as a chamber musician,
orchestral player, and teacher. She has performed at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Charleston,
South Carolina, and Spoleto, Italy, the Settimane Musicale Senese, Siena, Italy, and the Norfolk
Chamber Music Festival, USA. Her ensembles have won prizes at the Coleman Chamber Music
Competition, the Accademia Chigiana, the Conservatoire Américain de Fontainebleau, and in
Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Yvonne has taught violin, viola, and chamber music at the University of Arizona School of
Music and Dance. She has also held teaching posts at the University of California, Irvine, and
Vanguard University (California). Yvonne has coached for the last 8 years for the Tucson
Academy of Chamber Players, an enrichment program, presented by the AZ Friends of
Chamber Music. She has been on the summer faculty of Orvieto Strings Festival, Ameropa (a
chamber music festival and academy in Prague), and 5 summers at Interlochen Arts Camp in
Michigan.
As an accomplished orchestral musician, Yvonne is currently a member of the Tucson
Symphony Orchestra. She has been a member of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di
Santa Cecilia in Rome and recorded with the Santa Cecilia Chamber Orchestra for BMG. In the
United States, she has played with the Cincinnati Symphony, Colorado Symphony, American
Symphony, Brooklyn Philharmonic, New York City Opera, New Jersey Symphony and
Alexander Schneider’s New
York String Orchestra.
Yvonne studied at the Yale School of Music and the University of Michigan and received
diplomas in chamber music performance from the Conservatoire Américain and L’Accademia
Chigiana. Her early training was at the George Enescu Music High School in Bucharest,
Romania. She has studied viola and chamber music with Raphael Hillyer, Riccardo Brengola,
The Tokyo Quartet, Eugene Bossaert, Felix Galimir, Alexander Schneider, and John Dalley.
Radio announcing is yet another endeavor in Yvonne’s lifelong love of anything creative and
community-oriented. Yvonne has lived in Tucson since 2000 and is married to Thomas
Cockrell, director of orchestral activities at the University of Arizona School of Music.
Romanian-born violist YVONNE CREANGĂ enjoys a varied career as a chamber musician,
orchestral player, and teacher. She has performed at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Charleston,
South Carolina, and Spoleto, Italy, the Settimane Musicale Senese, Siena, Italy, and the Norfolk
Chamber Music Festival, USA. Her ensembles have won prizes at the Coleman Chamber Music
Competition, the Accademia Chigiana, the Conservatoire Américain de Fontainebleau, and in
Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Yvonne has taught violin, viola, and chamber music at the University of Arizona School of
Music and Dance. She has also held teaching posts at the University of California, Irvine, and
Vanguard University (California). Yvonne has coached for the last 8 years for the Tucson
Academy of Chamber Players, an enrichment program, presented by the AZ Friends of
Chamber Music. She has been on the summer faculty of Orvieto Strings Festival, Ameropa (a
chamber music festival and academy in Prague), and 5 summers at Interlochen Arts Camp in
Michigan.
As an accomplished orchestral musician, Yvonne is currently a member of the Tucson
Symphony Orchestra. She has been a member of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di
Santa Cecilia in Rome and recorded with the Santa Cecilia Chamber Orchestra for BMG. In the
United States, she has played with the Cincinnati Symphony, Colorado Symphony, American
Symphony, Brooklyn Philharmonic, New York City Opera, New Jersey Symphony and
Alexander Schneider’s New
York String Orchestra.
Yvonne studied at the Yale School of Music and the University of Michigan and received
diplomas in chamber music performance from the Conservatoire Américain and L’Accademia
Chigiana. Her early training was at the George Enescu Music High School in Bucharest,
Romania. She has studied viola and chamber music with Raphael Hillyer, Riccardo Brengola,
The Tokyo Quartet, Eugene Bossaert, Felix Galimir, Alexander Schneider, and John Dalley.
Radio announcing is yet another endeavor in Yvonne’s lifelong love of anything creative and
community-oriented. Yvonne has lived in Tucson since 2000 and is married to Thomas
Cockrell, director of orchestral activities at the University of Arizona School of Music.
