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“Champion ice-dancers Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue and violinist Lara St. John are among 114 athletes, artists, scholars and community leaders named to the Order of Canada on Friday.” - By Jacquelyn LeBel
Check out this performance presented by Naumburg Orchestral Concerts, which features Lara St. John, the Ulysses Quartet, and Marc-André Hamelin playing Debussy’s Violin Sonata in G Minor, Ravel’s String Quartet in F Major, and Chausson’s Concerto in D for Violin, Piano and String Quartet.
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VC recently caught up with violinist Lara St John for a behind-the-scenes Instagram takeover — direct from her Coronavirus quarantine in New York City.
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Lara St. John and pianist Matt Herskowitz release their latest album, Key of A, on April 20, 2020, through Ancalagon Records. The album pairs Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 9, “Kreutzer,” in A Major with César Franck’s Sonata in A major for Violin and Piano, and also includes Fritz Kreisler’s Schön Rosmarin.
Later, in September, she was the focal point of We Believe You: Solidarity Concert for Lara at the Gallery MC on West 52nd St. As a violinist, St. John scored a musical knockout with the super-virtuosic Čoček by Milica Paranosić. The evening’s emotional peak, though, was an 11-minute digest of the 400 emails she had received from women who had been similarly abused.
Monday, November 4th, 2019 by Drew McManus
In the latest chapter of what comes across as a book on how not to go about crisis management, the Curtis Institute continues to dig up in response to allegations of sexual abuse and impropriety.
11/1/2019 by CARRIE N. BAKER
Over the past two years, the #MeToo movement has reached many fields, and classical music is no exception.
“You and the Board have failed both this venerable institution and the Curtis community.
Serious crimes were committed and we now know that dozens of other children and women were affected by this pattern of abuse, neglect and negligence by senior Curtis staff.”
Abused, then Mocked: Acclaimed violinist says she was sexually assaulted by her renowned teacher at the Curtis Institute, and then disregarded when she reported it.
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