ISAAC ENCINAS

CELLO COACH

From Peruvian/Cuban heritage, 19-year old Isaac Encinas was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 2004. He comes from a musical family and has been studying the cello from the age of 3. He has studied under his mother Taylis Fernandez, a cuban cellist, but since early 2020 he was under the tutelage of Zlatomir Fung. Isaac has played as a soloist with the Mississippi Youth Symphony Orchestra and with the Premier Orchestral Institute. In 2021 Isaac attended the Sphinx Performance Academy summer camp and in the program, studied under renowned cellist Karlos Rodriguez. Isaac also attended the Curtis Mentor Network Audition where he mentored and taught by Curtis Alumni Natalie Helm. Isaac's family consists of his mother and father and five sisters with four of those sisters being musicians also. In addition to music Isaac is also a junior at Mississippi College majoring in Biology Pre-Medical Sciences. He plans to use his degree to attend UMMC for medical school.