Contact Information
Mikylah.Mcteer@mail.wvu.edu
Phone: (304) 293.4842. x3198
216-A Creative Arts Center
Mikylah Myers McTeer
Assistant Professor – Violin
Dr. Mikylah Myers McTeer is assistant professor of violin at West Virginia University and violinist of the West Virginia University Faculty Piano Quartet. She maintains an active chamber music and solo performance schedule, which this year includes performances at the College Music Society’s national conference in Portland, Oregon, an all-Brahms recital with her WVU colleagues, and concerts with the West Virginia University Faculty Piano Quartet. Her performances have been called “energetic and virtuosic” by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and “captivating” by Boulder, Colorado’s Daily Camera.
Dr. McTeer received her doctoral and master’s degrees in violin performance from the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music, where she studied with 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 received her bachelor of music 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.
Before joining the WVU music faculty in 2007, Dr. McTeer was 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 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, and the Ernest Bloch Festival in Newport, Oregon. She is currently a member of the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra and is a thirteen-year-member of the Britt Festival Orchestra in Jacksonville, Oregon.