ÿþ<html> <head> <meta name="keywords" contents="Lynn Kuo, violin, Canadian violinist, violin lessons, concerts, Classical music, Classical violin, Classical musician, Newfoundland musician"> <meta name="description" contents="Features biography, reviews, audio clips, and upcoming performances."> <title>Biography</title> <STYLE TYPE="text/css"> a:link { color: blue; text-decoration: none } a:visited { color: blue; text-decoration: none } a:hover { text-decoration: underline } </STYLE> </head> <body bgcolor="#000000" text="#000000" leftmargin="0" marginwidth="0"> <!-- ImageReady Slices (menu1.psd) --> <center> <IMG SRC="images/titlemenu.gif" WIDTH=501 HEIGHT=25 BORDER=0 ALT="" USEMAP="#titlemenu_Map"> <MAP NAME="titlemenu_Map"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" ALT="Bookings" COORDS="443,0,499,20" HREF="http://www.lynnkuo.com/boo.html" TARGET="_self"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" ALT="Performances" COORDS="355,0,438,21" HREF="http://www.lynnkuo.com/per.html" TARGET="_self"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" ALT="Gallery" COORDS="307,0,350,20" HREF="http://www.lynnkuo.com/gallerypage.html" TARGET="_self"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" ALT="Recordings" COORDS="233,0,300,21" HREF="http://www.lynnkuo.com/rec.html" TARGET="_self"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" ALT="Repertoire" COORDS="166,1,228,20" HREF="http://www.lynnkuo.com/rep.html" TARGET="_self"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" ALT="Reviews" COORDS="108,1,160,19" HREF="http://www.lynnkuo.com/rev.html" TARGET="_self"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" ALT="Biography" COORDS="43,2,105,19" HREF="http://www.lynnkuo.com/bio.html" TARGET="_self"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" ALT="Home" COORDS="1,2,38,19" HREF="http://www.lynnkuo.com/index.html" TARGET="_self"> </MAP> <!-- End ImageReady Slices --> </center> <table width="80%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding="15" align="center"> <tr> <td width="130" valign="top" align="center" bgcolor="#003366"> <p> <font class="small" face=arial size=2><br> <img src="images/bio1.jpg"><br> <img src="images/fill.gif" width="125" height="1"><br> <br> <font color=#ffffff size=2>&quot;She has mastered her instrument and can make it do just about anything she wants.&quot;<br><br> - The Daily Gleaner, Fredericton </font></p> </td> <td width="82%" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" valign="top"> <font face=arial size=2> <p><img src="images/bi.gif"></p> <p class="info">A native of St. John's, Newfoundland, violinist Lynn Kuo has earned accolades and praise for "her impeccable playing and tasteful phrasing." An Eaton Graduate Fellow at the University of Toronto, Lynn studied under the tutelage of Lorand Fenyves. In 2003, Lynn won the Second Prize at the Eckhardt-Gramatté Competition, and has also been the winner of top prizes in numerous Canadian competitions such as the Montreal Symphony Orchestra Competition, Quebec Symphony Orchestra Canadian Concerto Competition, and the Debut Young Concert Artist Series auditions. </p> <p class="info">Lynn has appeared as soloist and chamber musician across Canada, United States, Wales, Austria, Hungary, Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria, and Romania. As guest soloist, she has performed with the Quebec Symphony Orchestra, Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra, Canadian Sinfonietta, Brandon Chamber Players, Nexus percussion ensemble, Bulgaria s Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Croatia s Cantus Ensemble, and Hungary s gypsy orchestra, Rajkó Band.</p> <p class="info">In demand as an interpreter of new music, Lynn has given numerous world premieres of acoustic and electroacoustic works written for her and various ensembles by international composers: Michael Pepa (six works), Dennis Patrick, Daniel Foley, Elizabeth Raum, Scott Godin, James Harley, John Oliver, Constantine Caravassilis, Avalon Rusk (Canada), Séan Clancy (Ireland), Katarina Miljkovi (Serbia/USA), and Viktorija op (Croatia). </p> <p class="info"> In 2008-09, Lynn gave both the Canadian and European premieres of a fifth Michael Pepa work (ISOMORPHE) as soloist with the Cantus Ensemble of Croatia, as well as led the Les AMIS Ensemble in world premiere performances of Canadian compositions at the 2009 Music Biennale Festival in Zagreb, Croatia. In Bulgaria, Lynn has been a frequent soloist with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and in Romania and Serbia, performed the Chausson Concerto for Piano, Violin, and String Quartet with Marianna Humetska, piano and the Penderecki String Quartet.</p> <p class="info">Her performances have been featured on CBC Radio's Musicraft, Take Five, and Music Around Us, as well as Serbian, Romanian, and Hungarian national radio and television broadcasts.</p> <p class="info"> Lynn continues to collaborate with leading artists, having performed solo and chamber works with artists such as pianist William Aide, pianist/conductor Christoph Eschenbach at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival (Germany), the Gryphon Trio at the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival, and at the soundaXis Festival (Toronto), University of Toronto New Music Festival, and Music Biennale Zagreb Festival (Croatia). Lynn has led Toronto s Les AMIS Ensemble in three European tours (2005,  07,  09) (members have included: Marianna Humetska, piano; Rachel Mercer, cello; Lori Freedman, clarinet; Joseph Macerollo, accordion; and Katarzyna Sadej, mezzo-soprano), as well as performs numerous duo recitals with Ukrainian Canadian pianist Marianna Humetska. </p> <p class="info">Lynn has also formed exciting performance collaborations with cellist Winona Zelenka as well as Vancouver guitarist/composer, John Oliver, (violin/guitar duo, Duo Vita). 2010-11 collaborations include performance projects with Canadian accordionist Joseph Petric, a NAXOS CD recording of Nino Rota music with pianist Mary Kenedi, two European tours as head of the Les AMIS Ensemble (Ukraine, Serbia, Romania, Croatia), and a multimedia collaboration with artistic coalition AOR Presents of St. John s.</p> <p class="info">Maintaining a busy performance schedule, Lynn serves as both Assistant and Guest Concertmaster of the National Ballet of Canada Orchestra and has also served as guest concertmaster of orchestras including the National Arts Centre Orchestra. Lynn also performs with the Canadian Opera Company, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and Via Salzburg Chamber Orchestra.</p> <p class="info">Lynn has also served as a guest artist, teacher, and lecturer at Canadian universities and is also a doctoral candidate in the University of Toronto s Doctoral of Musical Arts program, for which her dissertation research is  Holistic Health and its Role in the Prevention of Musculoskeletal Disorders in Musicians. </p> <p class="info">Lynn gratefully performs on a 1904 Riccardo Antoniazzi violin and Hill bow on loan from Steven Pepa.</p> <font face= arial size =1>Updated 04/28/10</font> </td> </font> </tr> </table> <center><font color=#ffffff size=2 face=arial>&copy; 2002 Lynn Kuo. All rights reserved.</font><br> </body> </html>