Born in Veracruz, Mexico, Felisa Hernandez-Salmeron began formal music instruction at age of five. She earned a viola technical performance technical from the Escuela Municipal de Bellas Artes in 2000. Felisa then earned a Bachelor's of Arts and a Bachelor's of Music from the University of Washington, in Seattle. After finishing in 2005, Felisa moved to Vancouver, BC, to earn her Master's in Music: Orchestral Performance in Viola (2007). She has attended many prestigious music festivals such as the Symphony Orchestra of the Pacific (2007), where she has been invited to come back as principal viola in 2008; Youth Orchestra of the Americas (European tour 2006 and Brazil tour with Kent Nagano), Icicle Creek Chamber Music Institute(2005), the International Heifetz Institute (2003), the Marrowstone Music Festival (1999), and Encuentro de Orquestas Juveniles de Mexico (1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999). Felisa's teacher's have been Reginald Quiring, David Harding, Melia Watras, Kelly Farris, Helen Callus, and Rey Alejandro Conde Valdivia. Currently Felisa teaches violin and viola in several schools in the Greater Vancouver area. She is a member of Mariachi los Dorados, lead violinist and leader of the only female mariachi in Canada, Mariachi Flores de Alegria, as well as the violin teacher and musical director of el Mariachi Infantil (a youth mariachi, ages 4-10). Felisa is also member of the Syrinx Quartet, based in Vancouver and often performs with local professional and semiprofessional orchestras.