Ayrton Pisco

Ayrton Pisco plays “with aplomb, displaying a spirited line, crystalline and deftly defined” (San Diego Story) and has performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Copley Symphony Hall, Stadthalle Bayreuth (Germany), Khudozhestvenny Hall (Russia), Koerner Hall (Canada), Auditorio Amijai (Argentina) and Sala São Paulo (Brazil).
Mr. Pisco is a first prize winner of the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus’ Young Artists Competition, the Kersulis Memorial Endowment Scholarship Auditions, the Grossmont Music Scholarship Council Competition and the San Diego University Concerto Competition, and has also been awarded at the Musical Merit Foundation Scholarship Auditions, the University of Southern California’s Solo Bach Competition, the Música no Museu Young Musicians Competition, the Francisco Mignone Strings Competition and the Paulo Bosísio Strings Competition. He has received fellowships to attend the Aspen Music Festival, the New York String Orchestra Seminar, the Sarasota Music Festival, the Orchestra of the Americas and the Festival Junger Künstler Bayreuth (Germany). Additionally, he has performed in masterclasses for artists such as Midori Goto, Gil Shaham, Miriam Fried and Shmuel Ashkenasi.
As an orchestra musician, Mr. Pisco has performed with ensembles such as The Philadelphia Orchestra, New Haven Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, ProMusica Chamber Orchestra and The Philly Pops under the batons of Michael Tilson Thomas, Marin Alsop, Thomas Dausgaard, Hugh Wolff, Carl St. Clair, Rossen Milanov, Nicholas McGegan and Peter Oundjian. As a chamber musician, he has collaborated with esteemed artists such as Anthony McGill and Marina Thibeault and been featured on the WQXR and KUSC radio stations.
As an educator, Mr. Pisco has served as a teaching artist for Yale University’s Music in Schools Initiative, coached strings for the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles, acted as a teaching assistant for San Diego State University’s Community Music School and taught privately for over a decade.
In addition to classical music, Mr. Pisco also performs in genres such as jazz, tango, bossa nova and others. He has collaborated with groups such as Trio Gadjo and Besos de Coco and participated in shows in spaces such as House of Blues San Diego, Broomfield Auditorium in Colorado and Clube da Bossa Nova in Brasilia, Brazil.
Mr. Pisco is currently a violinist at the New World Symphony in Miami. He holds a Master of Music degree from Yale University, a Graduate Certificate from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Music degree from San Diego State University.