Canadian violinist and composer Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté thought of this dance on the boat back to Spain from Melilla (a Spanish city in Morocco). Stephanie Cadman brings it to a new Canadian life in this version, played by Lara St. John.

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.

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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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The series celebrates the 150th anniversary of New York’s iconic Atterbury House, with performances by Sybarite5, Tessa Lark & Michael Thurber, the Ulysses Quartet, Xavier Foley, PUBLIQuartet, The Westerlies, Imani Winds, Aisslinn Nosky, the Brentano Quartet, Augustin Hadelich, and St. John herself.

“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

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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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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.

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