Johanny Veiga Barbosa born in 1993 began her studies during her childhood with her father and violinist Juraci Rodrigues Barbosa in her native country Brazil. As a performer, she has been part of the Prelude Orchestra, acting as Concertmaster for almost ten years and performing solo works with the orchestra such as Mozart’s Violin Concerto #4, Heifetz’s Hora Staccato, E. Malher’s Concertino, and others. In 2004, she was a finalist in the “Othonio Benvenuto” competition for young soloists and, in 2011, after a selective audition process, was accepted to the Symphony Orchestra of Londrina University (UEL). Johanny studied violin performance at the University of Maringá (UEM)   where she received her bachelor´s degree in 2016 and acted as the principal second violin and soloist. Recently she also finished  her master’s degree at the University of Texas at El Paso as a Graduate Teaching Assistant,  principal second violin of the (UTEP) Symphony Orchestra she also had the  opportunity to perform as a soloist with the Symphony  the Bach Double Concert for Two Violins, Double concert for violin and cello by Vivaldi in A minor. Johanny was also announced as the winner of the UTEP Concert Competition Music Department 2017 where she performed as soloist the Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams. Her violin professors and masterclasses include names as Carmelo de Los Santos, Betina Stegman, Alejandro Drago David Taylor, Cecília Guida, Eliza Fukuda, Martin Tuksa, Paulo Bosísio,  Marco Damm, Paulo Lückman, Stephen Nordstrom and currently Professor Eva Szekely.  Johanny also had the opportunity to perform in chamber music and orchestras in different cities in the US Portales (NM), Las Cruces (NM) San Antonio (TX) El Paso (TX) Kansas City (MO) and Columbia (MO). Johanny is also very honored to recently have finished her PhD degree in Music Education at the University of Missouri and have become the manager of the Columbia Civic Orchestra