Mr. Fajardo is a violist and music educator who will join the Montgomery College–Rockville teaching staff this coming fall. Currently he holds the principal viola chair in the Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra and is a member of the Mobile Symphony Orchestra in Alabama. He serves on the educational staff of the Mobile Symphony Orchestra, where he teaches strings and conducts clinics at middle school and high school programs in the Mobile area. Mr. Fajardo also maintains a private teaching studio.

 

His earlier orchestral experience includes Emmanuel Music in Boston, the Keene Chamber Orchestra in New Hampshire, and the Mercury Baroque Ensemble of Houston, Texas. He also performed and toured with the Jeune Orchestra Atlantique in Saintes, France. He was principal viola for the Round Top Festival Institute in Texas and the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Festival Orchestra in Toronto, Canada.

 

A dedicated chamber musician, he has been a member of the Stretto String Quartet and the University of Southern Mississippi Graduate String Quartet, performing educational and outreach concerts. In 2006, he won the Honors Chamber Music Award at Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

 

Mr. Fajardo holds a master’s degree in viola performance from the University of Southern Mississippi, did graduate work at the University of Houston, and received a Performance Diploma from the Longy School of Music. He also has studied conducting at the Tafelmusik conductors’ program and the Rose City International Conducting Workshop in Portland, Oregon.