Courses Offered
Community Orchestra (MUP159)
Wed. 7:10 - 9:50 p.m.
The Glendale Community College Orchestra provides skilled and aspiring musicians of all ages the opportunity to learn, rehearse, and perform orchestral music, and fosters music appreciation and engagement among members of the Glendale community. The GCC Orchestra is a vibrant and diverse ensemble of college musicians and community members serving the community with entertaining and educational musical experiences and is a fun, inclusive, and welcoming environment for musicians of all levels. If you are interested in working with or performing with the orchestra, please feel free to contact Dr. Darren Cueva at darren.cueva@gccaz.edu for more information.
About the Conductors
Dr. Darren Cueva
In addition to teaching courses and music performance and music history at Glendale Community College, Dr. Darren Cueva is currently a member of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra bass section and performs regularly with the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, Arizona Opera, and AZ MusicFest. As a performer, he has played in professional orchestras on three continents and recorded bass tracks at the LA East Recording Studio, a subsidiary or Warner Bros. His most recent appointment was a full-time job as the principal bassist for La Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional del Ecuador (The National Symphony Orchestra of Ecuador).
As an educator, he has worked as a teaching assistant at Arizona State University and a visiting instructor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (National Catholic University of Ecuador). He has also been a guest lecturer and clinician at Brigham Young University, Conservatorio Nacional del Música (The National Music Conservatory in Ecuador), and Universidad de las Américas (University of the Americas), as well as music festivals in the United States, Mexico, and Ecuador.
Dr. Cueva holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in bass performance, a Master of Arts in Musicology, and a Master of Music in bass performance from Arizona State University.
Eva Dove
Described as “dynamic and compelling” (Charleston City Paper), violinist Eva Dove has performed across America in venues from Carnegie Hall to LA’s Walt Disney Concert Hall. Her recent collaborators include cellist Lynn Harrell and violist Toby Appel as well as faculty members from The Juilliard School, The Colburn School, and the University of Texas Austin. She was the recipient of the Summit Music Festival’s Chamber Music Excellence Award and in 2016 was invited to compete in the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition.
Hailed for her fierce musicality and leadership, Eva has served in principal chairs of the Spoleto Festival Orchestra, the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra, the Shepherd School Opera Orchestra, the Aspen Sinfonietta, and with the Vermont Mozart Festival. Recently she was invited to serve as concertmaster of San Diego’s summer opera workshop, OperaNeo. Eva has also performed with AZ MusicFest under the direction of Robert Moody and with the Strings Festival Orchestra in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
Eva has performed at music festivals across the country including the Aspen Music Festival and School, Spoleto Festival USA, the Strings Festival at Steamboat Springs, Caroga Lake Music Festival, the Colorado College Music Festival, the Orchestra Institute Napa Valley, and the Montecito International Music Festival, among others.
A longtime student of renowned pedagogue Paul Kantor, Eva received her Bachelors and Masters degrees from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music as a recipient of the Starling Foundation Scholarship. During her graduate studies at Rice she was named a Brown Scholar and served on the chamber music faculty of the Michael P. Hammond Preparatory Program. She recently served as the Chamber Music Teaching Assistant at Arizona State University where she is currently working on her doctorate under the mentorship of violinist Jonathan Swartz. Eva frequently performs with the Phoenix Symphony and other ensembles across the southwest.