Mikylah Myers McTeer
Assistant Professor - Violin
Dr. Mikylah Myers McTeer is assistant professor of violin at West Virginia University. She maintains an active chamber music and solo performance schedule, which this year includes a performance of Lou Harrison’s Suite for Violin and American Gamelan at the Percussive Arts Society’s International Convention in Columbus, Ohio. Dr. McTeer received her doctoral and master’s degrees from the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music, where she studied with renowned violinist Fredell Lack. During her time in Houston, Dr. McTeer regularly performed with the Houston Symphony and the Houston Grand Opera. She was also a violinist with the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, Florida.
Dr. McTeer was previously concertmaster of the San Juan Symphony and assistant professor of violin and viola at Fort Lewis College. She was also the founder, artistic director, and conductor of the Durango Youth Symphony.
An award-winning chamber musician, Dr. McTeer performs with WVU’s faculty piano quartet. She was formerly the violinist of the Red Shoe Piano Trio at Fort Lewis College and the violinist of the Moores Piano Trio in Houston, Texas, which was the silver prize winner at the 2000 Carmel Chamber Music Competition. Dr. McTeer has performed internationally as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Italy, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, and Hungary.
Dr. McTeer spends her summers performing at music festivals throughout the United States and Europe, which have included the Spoleto Italy Festival, the AIMS in Graz, Austria Festival, the Oregon Coast Festival, the Ernest Bloch Festival in Newport, Oregon, and the Colorado Music Festival. She is an eleven-year member of the Britt Festival Orchestra in Jacksonville, Oregon.
Dr. McTeer received her bachelor’s degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where she studied violin with Roland and Almita Vamos. She was also a four-year-member and co-captain of the Oberlin College varsity women’s soccer team.
