Téa Bowers is a homeschooled high school violist from Cedar Grove, North Carolina and began studying violin at the Duke University String School at the age of five. Téa is the principal violist for the MYCO (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Chamber Orchestra and the Duke University String School Youth Symphony. She has also performed regularly with the Duke University Ciompi Collaborative Chamber Quartet, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Baroque Ensemble, the Indie Strings Community Orchestra and the Four Seasons Next Gen Ensemble. She is a founding member of the Passera Piano Quartet which won the Audience Prize and First Place at the University of South Carolina Chamber Day competition. Passera has also been quarter and semi-finalists at the National Fischoff Chamber Competition and the Coltman Chamber Competition. Strongly committed to community service, Téa has performed at venues such as the UNC Botanical Gardens, University Presbyterian Church, Ovations @ the NC Symphony, Whitted Bowers Farm, The Forest at Duke, Carillon Assisted Living, and the Marquette Elementary School in South Bend, IN as a PACman ambassador for Fischoff. Her summers have included the Bowdoin International Music Festival, MYCO summer workshops, Kinhaven Music School, Boston University Tanglewood Institute and Oberlin Conservatory Viola Intensives. She studies with Ara Gregorian and plays on a viola built for her by North Carolina luthier, David Finck.