Héctor Falcón

Héctor Falcón has won numerous awards and competitions both in the United States and Puerto Rico, including first prize in the Sam Levenson Violin Competition and the R. J. Reynolds Career Grant award. He began his violin studies with Jose Figueroa, a member of Puerto Rico’s most prestigious family of musicians, and with Jaime Medina, a member of the Orquesta Sinfónica of Puerto Rico. Falcón has been a member of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra since 2000, and he regularly plays with the New York City Ballet, Opera Orchestra of New York, American Symphony Orchestra and Houston Symphony Orchestra. At Juilliard, where he obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees, he studied with Dorothy DeLay, Hyo Kang and Masao Kawasaki.