Isaiah John Valdez
8715 Datapoint Drive,
Apt 2404
San Antonio, TX 78249
Ivaldez49025@gmail.com
Education:
August 2015- May 2016 Cano Freshman Academy Harlingen, Texas
August 2016- May 2019 Harlingen High School South Harlingen, Texas
August 2019- Present The University of Texas at San Antonio. SaAntonio,Texas
Work Experience
August 2019-Present: Terra Nova Violins
-Cleaned and did minor repairs on instruments, delivered instruments to
schools, Salesclerk, and provided lessons in the studio.
January 2018-Present: Private Cello Instructor
-Provided private one on one cello lessons to all ages of students
August 2019-2021: Youth Orchestra of San Antonio (String Mentor)
-Acted as an assistant director and provided mentorship to string
players
Activities:
Junior Year College of Liberal and Fine Arts Research Conference
-3rd place with my piano composition “Silent Cartography”
Freshman Year - Present UTSA Italian Club
Freshman Year - Present American String Teacher Association
-Vice President of the student body freshman year
Freshman Year – 2021 UTSA String Project
-Teach developing orchestra students
Freshman Year - Present UTSA Orchestra
-Principal Junior and Senior year.
Junior year UTSA Leadership
-A UTSA select program intended to build leadership skills to be used
in the work environment.
Studied Under
Dr. Yi Qun Xu- UTSA
Holgen Gjoni – UTSA and Privately
Bonnie Hampton – Privately
Ryan Murphy - UTSA
Dr. Tido Janssen – Privately
Dr. Katherine Decker-Privately
Master Classes
Bonnie Hampton – I performed the Prelude from Bach Suite 3 in her Master Class Julien
Swartz – I performed Popper’s Hungarian Rhapsody in his Master Class
Santiago Cañón-Valencia – I performed Breval’s Cello Sonata in G Major Op.12 Mvmt 1 Emilio Colon
– I performed Bloch’s Prayer for his Master Class
Paul Ellison – I performed the Prelude from Bach Suite 2 in his Master Class.
Stephen Balderston – I performed the 1st Mvmt of Elgar Cello Concerto for his Master Class Wesley
Baldwin – I performed Faure’s Elegie in his Master Class
Prudence McDaniel – I performed the Saint Saen’s cello concerto, Bach Suite 3, Breval’s cello Sonata in G
major op.12 and Popper’s Hungarian Rhapsody.
Dr. Patrick Hopkins – I performed Popper Etude no.1
Dr. Hamelin- I performed Elgar’s Cello Concerto 1st Mvmt and Popper etude no.11
Tanya Remenikova–I performed the 1st Mvmt of the Brahms Cello Sonata in e minor and Prelude from
Bach Suite 4.
Repertoire list
Solo Repertoire
• Faure's Elegie in C minor Op.24
• Brahms’s Cello Sonata in E minor
• Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor 1st movement
• Saint Saen’s Cello Concerto No.1
• Saint Sean’s Cello Sonata No.1
• Lalo Cello Concerto in D minor
• Bach Suites 1-4
• Popper’s Hungarian Rhapsody
• Popper Etudes No.1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8.9,10,11,15,16,22
• Bloch’s Prayer
• Breval’s Cello Sonata in G major in Op.12
• Joseph Merk 20 exercises for cello Op.11, No.16
• Reinhold Glière, Cello duo Op.53, No.8, Giocoso
Chamber Works
• William Grant Still’s Danzas De Panama
• Haydn Quartet Op.74 no.3
• Haydn Quartet Op.17 no.2
• Dvorak Quartet No.13 op.126
• Schumann Piano Quintet Op.44
• Rontgen Piano Quintet No.2 Op.100
• Heitor Villa Lobos Quartet No.5
• Shostakovich Quartet No.8
• Micah Rosenstein’s The Burning for Violin and Cello
• Stacy Garrop’s Quartet No.2 Inner Demons
Orchestral Work
• Danzon No.2
• Schumann Symphony No.4
• Copland's Quiet City
• Barber’s Adagio for Strings
• Bartók's Hungarian Sketch
• Holst's Saint Paul’s Suite
• Saint-Saëns’s Danse Bacchanale
• Elgar’s Enigma Variations
• Haydn Symphony No.104 in D major
• Ralph Vaughan Williams Prelude on a Welsh Hymn Tune: Rhosymedre
• Mendelssohn The Hebrides Op. 26
• Beethoven Symphony No.1 in C major Op.21
• Mozart Horn concerto No.3 in E flat major, K.447
• R. Nathaniel Dett Juba from in the bottoms
• Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music
• Mozart’s Magic Flute
Compositions
• An Enduring Life Theme and Variations for Piano - 2018-Ongoing
• What’s To Come on A Winter Night for Flute and Piano – 2020
• Memories an Etude for the Beginning cellist - 2020
• Silent Cartography Suite for Solo Piano -2021
• The Ever So Fantastically Magnificent Emma Suite for The Beginning
Pianist and Cello accompanist -2022
• Suite for Piano and Quartet No.1 “Grey Eyes”-2023
• Piano Trio No.1 “Summer Nights”-2023
