Historical
Piano Concerts Series
About
the Musicians
Abigail Karr
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Violinist Abigail Karr
lives and works in New York City. The Boston native received her
Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Rice University Shepherd
School of Music, studying violin with the late Sergiu Luca.
She
appears with many ensembles on modern and historical violin, including
Boston’s Handel & Haydn Society (as occasional principal player and
soloist) and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra of Manhattan. An active
chamber musician, noted for the “focused direction” she brings to
performances, she is the founder and director of Gretchen’s Muse, a
chamber ensemble dedicated to bringing the music of the 18th century to
life through exciting, historically-informed performances; the group
was recently praised for its “near-telepathic synchronicity” and the
“palpable collective chemistry between such individually accomplished
bow-wielders.” She was also a founding member of the Rosetta String
Trio, which, in addition to its commitment to historical performance,
commissioned and premiered three new works for string trio.
After
their performance of Mendelssohn’s complete sonatas for violin and
piano on the Historical Piano Concerts series, she and keyboardist
Yi-heng Yang are slated to repeat the program at the La Grua Center in
Stonington, CT. The duo will also record and perform these works at the
renowned Concert Hall at Drew University in Madison, NJ, with Grammy
Award-winning producer and engineer Jesse Lewis.
Abigail’s solo and chamber music performances have drawn praise from such publications as Toronto NOW magazine, the New York Times and the Boston Musical Intelligencer.
She recently completed studies in historical performance at The
Juilliard School, and has taught Baroque violin at Rutgers University.
We welcome Abigail to her first appearance on our concert series.
There is more to be discovered at her web site, abigailkarr.com .