CLARA LYON Violin

Known for her unique musicality, Clara Lyon's performances have taken her across the globe to many acclaimed concert halls, including Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tulley Hall, Beijing's National Center for the Arts, and the Shanghai Grand Theatre. A 2008 scholarship graduate of the Juilliard School, as a student there she was a pupil of Glenn Dicterow and was honored with the use of a 1695 Girolamo Amati violin from the school's rare instrument collection. Equally at home as a soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician, Clara has worked with many of today's leading musicians. Recent performances have found her with principal orchestral positions under such acclaimed directors as James Levine, Herbert Blomstedt, James Conlon, and Phillippe Entremont. Devoted to the music of the past as well as that of today, Clara has played with Juilliard's Axiom Ensemble for the last two years. She also performs regularly in a duo with her sister, cellist Elizabeth Lyon; their performance of Ravel's Duo Sonate garnered the sisters the rarely bestowed Prix de Chambre at the 2007 Conservatoire Americain de Fontainebleau.

As a soloist, Clara has played with many orchestras including the Pennsylvania Centre Orchestra, the Altoona Symphony Orchestra, the Susquehanna Symphony, the Williamsport Symphony, the Nittany Valley Symphony, the Hershey Symphony, the Festival de la Orquestra Sinfonica Juvenil de las Americas in Puerto Rico, and the Viva-Vivaldi Orchestra at the Kennedy Center. As a student of Yumi Ninomiya Scott, she was a 2004 prizewinner of the NFAA ARTS Awards, and in the International Irving M. Klein Competition.

Clara is currently a masters student of Soovin Kim and Phil Setzer at SUNY Stony Brook University. During the summers she has participated in the Conservatoire Americain de Fontainebleau, the Tanglewood Music Center, the Music Academy of the West, and the Quartet Program.