Alisa Luera teaches violin and viola in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles and surrounding areas. She coaches chamber music and orchestra players as well as teaches music theory. Alisa is currnetly a Junior, pursuing her B.M. degree in Violin Performance, studying with Lorenz Gamma at Cal State Northridge. A native of Seattle, Washington, Alisa is a very active violinist, violist, and chamber musician, Ms. Alisa Luera has performed widely in Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Italy, and the US, and has appeared as concertmaster with LAYO’s Symphony Orchestra (Los Angeles Youth Orchestra) from 2011-2017. In 2014, she joined JCM (Junior Chamber Music). She was accepted in their Debut Artists Program and selected for JCM’s Honors Tours to perform in masterclasses at Longy’s School of Music, New England Conservatory, Juilliard School of Music, and has performed in Carnegie Hall Weill Recital. Alisa began playing the violin at the age of four, and was raised in Los Angeles. Her mother is a piano instructor who helped her by applying her knowledge and practicing methods to her learning, including playing alongside her for many years. Prior to her studies with Prof. Gamma, Alisa took violin lessons for twelve years under the Suzuki Music Program of Los Angeles with Yoko Honda and former Director Emeritus, Idell Low. This is Alisa’s second year in the CSUN Honors String Quartet and the members took masterclasses with Arnaud Sussmann of Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Bin Huang of China Conservatory, Yuan Sheng of Beijing Central Conservatory of Music, Ben Hong of USC and LA Philharmonic, and the Calder Quartet. Since attending CSUN’s Department of Music, she was co-concertmaster in Symphony Orchestra the past three semesters and chosen to perform chamber music with Dr. Lorenz Gamma, Dr. Julia Heinen, Dr. Robert Berg, Ben Hong, and Jonathan Moerschel of the Calder Quartet in faculty concerts in the school. Outside of school, she took part in projects and performances with Debut Orchestra, Brightwork NewMusic, Disney XD, Shari Sutcliffe, David Grohl, the Foo Fighters, Tony Visconti and LAYO as a fellow in Walt Disney Hall.
