JOAN DERHOVSEPIAN

Joan DerHovsepian serves as Principal Viola of the Houston Symphony. Recent festival and chamber music performances include the Seattle Chamber Music Society, Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra, Grand Teton Music Festival, Mimir Chamber Music Festival (Ft. Worth TX and Melbourne Australia), Peninsula Music Festival and National Orchestral Institute. This season she will begin as violist of the Axelrod String Quartet, the quartet-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., playing on the museum’s collection of Nicolò Amati and Stradivari instruments. Joan was the violist of the award winning Everest Quartet and was a top prize recipient of the Primrose International Viola Competition. She was featured as Artist-in-Residence for the American Viola Society in 2023.s