Alyssa Warcup

Alyssa Warcup, from Geneva, Ill., entered the Curtis Institute of Music in 2022 and studies viola with Roberto Díaz and Edward Gazouleas. All students at Curtis receive merit-based, full-tuition scholarships, and Ms. Warcup is the Edward Montgomery Fellow.

Ms. Warcup made her solo debut performing the Schnittke Viola Concerto with the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra. She is the first prize winner of several competitions, including the National Federation of Music Clubs Biennial Collegiate Viola Competition and Wendell Irish Viola Award, as well as the Cleveland Institute of Music Concerto Competition. She received the inaugural Howard E. Leisinger Viola Prize from the Tuesday Musical Association.

Ms. Warcup has appeared as both soloist and chamber musician at festivals including the International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove, Gstaad String Academy, Fontainebleau Schools, National Arts Centre Young Artists Program, Heifetz International Music Institute, and National YoungArts Foundation. She is passionate about outreach, regularly performing alongside ensembles for concerts in hospitals, nursing homes, libraries, and museums. She has performed with the Cleveland chapter of Music for Food, a musician-led initiative to fight hunger in local communities.

An avid orchestral musician, Ms. Warcup performs regularly as a substitute with the Cleveland Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra. She has performed as a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center and Aspen Music Festival.

Ms. Warcup previously earned her Bachelor of Music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she studied with Jeffrey Irvine, Lynne Ramsey, and Stanley Konopka. Originally from the Chicago area, Ms. Warcup began her viola studies at age twelve. She performs on a viola made by Christopher Germain in 2012.