Connie Kupka
violin II
Connie Kupka was born and raised in Los Angeles. She received her BA at UCLA and began her professional career. After in internship with the Quarneri Quartet, she founded the Arriaga quartet with cellist David Speltz, which went on to win First Prize in the Coleman competition in Pasadena.
Connie has participated in many wonderful festivals, including the Oregon Bach and Ojai festivals and the Santa Fe and Grand Canyon chamber music festivals. In Los Angeles, she frequently performs on the Pacific Serenades and South Bay Chamber Music series. She has been a violinist with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra since 1990 and has served as principle violin in the Pasadena Symphony and the Colorado Music Festival.
Connie and her husband David Speltz are the proud parents of three young men, two of whom are making careers in music. The youngest is a cellist in his third year at the Curtis Institute and the middle son recently graduated from USC as a violin major, where he worked with LACO concertmaster Margaret Batjer and studied chamber music with Midori. Their first born teaches English as a second language in Moscow.
For a change of pace, Connie enjoys river rafting, renovating houses and planting sumptuous gardens.
