The Rest Is Noise Person of the Year is Lara St. John.
You Didn’t Think This Curtis Thing Was Going To Blow Over, Did You?
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.
Time’s Up in Classical Music
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.
Lara’s letter to Robert Diaz, President at the Curtis Institute of Music
“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.”
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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.
Parrot is cuckoo for violin
World Premiere
November 2018: Lara did the world premiere of composer Avner Dorman's Nigunim (Violin Concerto # 2) at Maison Symphonique in Montreal, with Orchestre classique de Montréal at the Azrieli Prize Gala.
It was recorded in March 2019 and will be released September 2019, as well as premiered in Poland and the Czech Republic in Fall of 2019.
Fairfax County Times
St. John serves as Wolf Trap’s artistic advisor for chamber music at the Barns, and she made her debut on its stage in 2009 performing works by Bartok, Schoenberg and playing a premiere by Matthew Hindson, which inspired by nuclear testing in the Australian province of Maralinga. She feels the Barns is an amazing place to perform.
The Violin Channel
Santa Barbara Symphony To Perform Alongside Film Screenings
"What a way to start the new year! Lara St. John will remarkably recreate the demanding solo passages depicted on screen, in what amounts to a virtuosic two-hour concerto."