Donna Fairbanks
Associate Professor, Violin
Music Department Chair
Donna.Fairbanks@uvu.edu
801-863-6538
Donna Fairbanks received a Doctor of Musical Arts in Violin Performance from the University of Arizona, a Master Associate Professor, Violin
Music Department Chair
Donna.Fairbanks@uvu.edu
801-863-6538
of Music from the Eastman School of Music, and a Bachelor of Music from Brigham Young University, with
additional conservatory studies at the University of Missouri Kansas City and the University of Cincinnati. Her
teachers include Zvi Zeitlin, Varujan Kojan, William Harroutonian, Tiberius Klausner, Percy Kalt and John Ferrell,
with chamber coaching from members of the Cleveland Quartet and the legendary violist William Primrose.
She has appeared as a soloist with the Charleston Symphony, Utah Symphony, Orquestra Sinfonica de Londrina
(Brazil), Sun Valley Festival Orchestra, and Utah Valley Symphony, as well as various university and youth
orchestras. Among her competition successes are the Kansas City Philharmonic Competition for Young Artists,
the Cincinnati Conservatory Congress of Strings Competition, and the Utah Symphony Competition for Young
Artists. She has presented recitals and master classes in Mexico, Brazil, China, Europe, and throughout the United States.
Previous teaching positions include the University of Minnesota MacPhail Center for the Arts, Brigham Young
University School of Music, and the Universidade Estadual de Londrina in Brazil.
As a member of the Aurora Duo with harpist Lysa Rytting, she has recorded CDs with MSR Classics, 4TAY Records,
and Tantara Records. Selections from these recordings have been featured on major public radio stations and
networks, among them WNYC New York City, WFMT Chicago, WPRB Princeton, WQED Pittsburgh, WSHU
Connecticut, WFSU Florida, the Minnesota and Wisconsin Public Radio Networks, and the Beethoven Satellite Network.