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VC ARTIST | Tessa Lark – 2018 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship Recipient

American violinist Tessa Lark has in recent years firmly established herself as one of the new generation’s most outstanding young string virtuosi

November 4, 2018

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American violinist Tessa Lark has in recent years firmly established herself as one of the new generation’s most outstanding young string virtuosi.

A graduate of the New England Conservatory and The Juilliard School, where she studied with Miriam Fried, Lucy Chapman, Sylvia Rosenberg and Ida Kavafian, Tessa is a former major prize winner at the Indianapolis, Michael Hill and Naumburg International Violin Competitions – and is a recent recipient of a prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant and Leonore Annenberg and Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowships.

Her recent concerto engagements include performances with the Louisville Orchestra, South Carolina Philharmonic, Atlantic Classical Orchestra, Williamsburg Symphony Orchestra and the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra – and in January of 2019 she will give the premiere performance of composer Michael Torke’s ‘Sky’ Concerto with the Albany Symphony Orchestra.

Tessa has collaborated with such renowned artists as Mitsuko Uchida, Itzhak Perlman, Miriam Fried, Donald Weilerstein, Pamela Frank, Kim Kashkashian, Peter Wiley and Ralph Kirshbaum

She currently performs on a 1600 Maggini – on generous loan from the Stradivari Society.