Moisés Molina, Cellist

Cellist Moisés Molina, a native of Honduras, is an active soloist, orchestra and chamber musician, teacher, and clinician. He has performed in the United States, Central and South America, Europe, and Asia, and he has recorded for Centaur Records, Parma Records, Profil, and New World labels.

Molina is a guest artist and teacher at the Toradze International Music Festival (Tbilisi, Georgia), the Orfeo Music Festival, and Northern Lights Music Festival. He is in the faculty of the Tennessee Valley Music Festival and the Singing River Cello Workshop. Molina is a member of the ensemble for the Chicago Conducting Masterclass and Workshop and a regular guest artist/teacher at the Biennial Violoncello Festival in Lima, Peru.

Molina was a guest artist at the St. Augustine Music Festival in Florida for several seasons. He has participated in the International Chamber Music Festival in Lima and Cuzco Music Festival in Cusco, Peru. He has also He has also given master classes, performances and workshops at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música in Santo Domingo, (Dominican Republic), the Tennessee Cello Workshop in Nashville, the Universidad Nacional Autónoma and the Escuela de Música Victoriano López in Honduras.

Molina is Principal Cellist for the Mobile Symphony Orchestra, Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra, and the Columbus (GA) Symphony Orchestra. He also plays with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra. He has served as Principal Cellist for Abilene (TX) Philharmonic Orchestra, Abilene Opera Orchestra, Quincy (IL) Symphony, and as Assistant Principal for Tallahassee Symphony, Peoria Symphony, and Heartland Festival Orchestras. 

Dr. Molina is Assistant Professor of a Cello at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Prior to his position at UA, Dr. Molina was Professor of Cello and Assistant Director of the School of Music at Western Illinois University, and he taught at Hardin-Simmons and Abilene Christian Universities. He has given lectures and clinics for the College Music Society and the Texas and Illinois Music Educators Associations. He directed the Quincy (IL) Summer Music Institute Orchestra and the IMEA District IV Junior High School Orchestra for several years. He taught at the Summer Fine Arts Camp at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and he conducted the Abilene Philharmonic Youth Orchestra. Moisés was successful in several concerto, solo and chamber music competitions, and he was awarded an orchestral fellowship to the Aspen Music Festival.