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CLARA LYON Violin
Clara Lyon has performed in many of the
world’s acclaimed concert halls, including Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall,
Alice Tulley Hall, the Kennedy Center, Merkin Hall, Beijing’s National Center
for the Arts, and the Shanghai Grand Theatre. She graduated in 2008 from the Juilliard School with a
Bachelor of Music degree, studying with Glenn Dicterow, and received her Master
of Music from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2009. She is currently a Staller Fellow at
Stony Brook as a candidate for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree under the
tutelage of Soovin Kim. This past
year, Ms. Lyon was a Teaching Assistant for the Violin Studio, and a winner of
the Stony Brook Concerto Competition. As a result, she will perform Bartok’s Violin Concerto No.2 with the
graduate orchestra next year. As a
soloist, Ms. Lyon 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. Equally at home in
chamber music and orchestral roles, Ms. Lyon 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. She has collaborated in performance with such artists as Soovin Kim,
Eugene Drucker, Kathy Murdock, Colin Carr, Kurt Muroki, William Purvis, Alan
Kay, and Frank Morelli. Devoted to the programming of contemporary music as
well as that of the past, Clara has played with Juilliard’s Axiom Ensemble
since 2006. She was the assistant
concertmaster for the American stage premier at Tanglewood of Elliot Carter’s
only opera, What Next, under Maestro
James Levine. She also performs in
a duo with her sister, cellist Elizabeth Lyon; their performance of Ravel’s Duo
Sonate garnered the sisters the Prix de Chambre at the 2007 Conservatoire
Americain de Fontainebleau. During summers Ms. Lyon has participated in
the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, the Conservatoire Americain de
Fontainebleau, the Tanglewood Music Center, the Music Academy of the West, the
Quartet Program, and Cultures in Harmony, a non-profit organization dedicated
to global diplomacy through music. She is on faculty at the Music Academy of Long Island, and maintains a
private teaching studio. |