WQXR Presents Midday Masterpieces
in collaboration with The Juilliard School
Violinist Tessa Lark
Overview
Take a respite from your busy work day with the glories of classical music.
Hear rising stars from The Juilliard School perform selections from some of classical music’s best-loved composers in The Greene Space. Leave the emails, phone calls, and stress behind, and settle in for an hour of musical serenity.
→ Video Webcast
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Today, join us for a special performance by violinst Tessa Lark.
Lark was named the Silver Medalist of the 2014 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, making her the highest-ranked American-born winner in the Competition’s history. She is a recipient of a career grant from the Leonore Annenberg Fellowship Fund for the Performing and Visual Arts and a 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grant. Other awards include the prestigious Naumburg International Violin Award in 2012 and the 2008 Irving Klein International Strings Competition.
PROGRAM
KREISLER Viennese Rhapsodic Fantasietta
SCHUBERT Fantasie
TELEMANN Selections from Fantasias
→ These free concerts take place the first Wednesday of every month through June.