Elamin is joined by Globe and Mail reporter Josh O’Kane to talk about the Calgary Philharmonic’s decision to remove two of its musicians after an investigation looking into ‘deeply troubling comments posted online’. Then, he speaks with Canadian violinist Lara St.John about how to make music schools and orchestras safer for girls and women.
Lauries's take on freedom and the deep meaning of New York Harbor, though so few now remember. From the album she/her/hers by Lara St. John. Videography by Samovar Film Productions and WGBH Boston, sound by Laura De Rover, styling by Milica Paranosic, and thanks to Captain Martin.
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The Violin Channel recently caught up with Lara St. John, Aisslinn Nosky, and Adrienne Lloyd. We were curious to know how their time away from Canada in New York City has affected their careers and lives.
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For immediate release – New York, NY – Violinist Lara St. John will release her new album ♀she/her/hers on September 29, 2022, on Ancalagon Records. The recording features 17 original solo violin compositions written by 12 leading composers, including Laurie Anderson, Valerie Coleman, Gabriela Lena Frank, Jessica Meyer, Jessie Montgomery, Milica Paranosic, Micheline Coulombe St. Marcoux, Laura de Rover, Melissa Dunphy and Adah Kaplan.
Help us help Ukraine! Ukrainian-Canadian violinist and singer Carissa Klopoushak, violinist Lara St John and pianist Matt Herskowitz joined forces in Montreal to make a tribute video ft a warrior dance from the Carpathian highlands in Ukraine, preceded by a song thought of as the Funeral Anthem since the first Russian invasion in 2014. Here is a list of vetted organizations trying to help - please consider donating! https://help-ukraine.crd.co
New Tune by Gene Pritsker, (orchestrator and composer for The Matrix) starring Gene, violinist Lara St. John, and Santa!!! Feat. many Xmas carols....some obvious, some not! Premiering LIVE with Vancouver Symphony December 17 and 18 2021.
Audio Version can be found HERE
By Jeff Kaliss | From the January-February 2021 issue of Strings magazine
When Lara St. John sought a moniker for her own record label in 1999, she chose Ancalagon, to memorialize her recently deceased pet iguana, whose name in turn had been taken from a formidable creature in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Silmarillion. Her love for reptiles harkened back to her upbringing as a violin prodigy in Ontario, Canada, where her mother rewarded her with a plastic dinosaur every time she topped a competition. “[The dinosaurs] made me practice,” she recounts by phone from her current home in New York City.
Bringing an artist-run classical label into the world in 1999 perhaps cast St. John in a role similar to that of Daenerys Targaryen, the confident and courageous princess of dragons in Game of Thrones. “No solo classical artist had done it,” St. John claims. “But I just wanted to be able to have control over whatever I put out there: what I recorded, how I put it out there visually, and that sort of stuff.”
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