Violinist Gabriel Meza studies with Keng-Yuen Tseng.  He currently attends the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University, where he has been awarded the Lime-Kiln Foundation and Joseph and Elizabeth Imbrogulio Scholarships.  His past teachers include Kevin Lawrence, Richard Luby, Sally Thomas, and Amy Barlowe.  Gabriel has also studied bowing technique under the direction of Charles Avsharian.  His past chamber music coaches include Melissa Kraut, Stephen Rochen, Alex Ezerman, and Alan Bodman.  He has played in master classes under the direction of David Bowlin, Sherry Kloss, and members of the Emerson, Ying, Borromeo, and Arditti String Quartets. 

Gabriel attended the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival in 2009.  In the summers of 2006, 2007, and 2008, Gabriel attended the Meadowmount School of Music in New York.  In 2008, he held the honor of teaching assistant to Amy Barlowe there.  In 2005, Gabriel attended the Sphinx Performance Academy. 

In October 2005, Gabriel took first place at the state level in the Music Teachers’ National Association competition (strings division).  In January 2006 he competed at the regional level and was awarded the honor of first alternate to the national competition. 

Gabriel has given numerous solo violin recitals, in addition to many musical outreach performances at the Durham Arts Council, in various area retirement homes, at the Urban Ministries of Durham, and at the Durham School of the Arts.  Additionally, he has lent his talents to various benefit concerts for Charity: Water, Hurricane Katrina victims, and Child Evangelism Fellowship. 

Gabriel is a gifted pianist as well, and he has been a guest artist at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s Focus on Piano Literature 2006 workshop. Gabriel’s primary piano teacher was Mary Turner, a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music and former student of Guido Agosti and James Friskin.  Gabriel has enjoyed accompanying several choral groups on piano at Fearrington Village in North Carolina. 

In addition to solo performances, Gabriel has experience teaching privately, coaching chamber music, and free-lancing with various chamber and orchestral groups, including the Danville Symphony Orchestra. 

Gabriel has been active in the music ministry at Christ the King Church in North Carolina, where he has explored improvisation techniques.  Wherever and whenever he plays, Gabriel dedicates his music to the glory of God.