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Forged from a chance encounter at a music camp on a Florida beach, this duo brings together two musicians with shared musical roots and diverse careers. Violinist TRICIA PARK, Juilliard graduate and winner of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and with orchestras around the world. Violinist and fiddler TAYLOR MORRIS, who spent four years touring the world with renowned fiddle group Barrage, received a master’s degree in education at Harvard and works with students to explore folk styles and musical creativity. Together, TRICIA & TAYLOR use two violins to better understand the multicultural age in which we live, performing music from genres and cultures around the world.
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ABOUT TRICIA
Praised by critics for her "astounding virtuosic gifts" (Boston Herald) and "achingly pure sound” (The Toronto Star), concert violinist TRICIA PARK enjoys a diverse and eclectic career as soloist, chamber musician, concertmaster, educator, and festival curator.
Tricia is a recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant. Since appearing in her first orchestral engagement at age 13 with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, she has performed with numerous orchestras, including the English Chamber Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Montreal, Dallas, Cincinnati, KBS (Korea) and Seattle Symphonies. Recent season highlights include a performance of Lalo Symphonie Espagnole with the South Bend Symphony; a recital at Carnegie Hall with Ensemble Peripherie; and a recording of works by Per Bloland on the TZADIK label with the ECCE Ensemble. Tricia is also the founding member of the Gesualdo Quartet, the new Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Notre Dame.
Tricia maintains an ongoing interest in new music and non-classical styles. She has performed with jazz musicians Matt Ulery and Zach Brock, has appeared with the rock band Another Dead Clown, and performs duo violin recitals with fiddler-violinist, Taylor Morris.
Tricia is the co-founder and artistic director of MusicIC, a summer chamber music festival that takes place in downtown Iowa City, Iowa. MusicIC presents free concerts and events focused on music for small ensembles and inspired by works of literature, both prose and poetry.
Tricia received her Bachelor and Master of Music from the Juilliard School where she studied with Dorothy DeLay. She has studied and performed chamber music with Felix Galimir, Pinchas Zukerman, Cho-Liang Lin, Michael Tree, Gary Hoffman, Paul Neubauer, Robert McDonald, and members of the American, Guarneri, Juilliard, and Orion String Quartets as well as the new music group, Eighth Blackbird.
Currently, Tricia is full-time Violin Faculty and Artist-in-Residence at the University of Notre Dame. For more information, please visit: www.triciapark.com
Tricia is a recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant. Since appearing in her first orchestral engagement at age 13 with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, she has performed with numerous orchestras, including the English Chamber Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Montreal, Dallas, Cincinnati, KBS (Korea) and Seattle Symphonies. Recent season highlights include a performance of Lalo Symphonie Espagnole with the South Bend Symphony; a recital at Carnegie Hall with Ensemble Peripherie; and a recording of works by Per Bloland on the TZADIK label with the ECCE Ensemble. Tricia is also the founding member of the Gesualdo Quartet, the new Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Notre Dame.
Tricia maintains an ongoing interest in new music and non-classical styles. She has performed with jazz musicians Matt Ulery and Zach Brock, has appeared with the rock band Another Dead Clown, and performs duo violin recitals with fiddler-violinist, Taylor Morris.
Tricia is the co-founder and artistic director of MusicIC, a summer chamber music festival that takes place in downtown Iowa City, Iowa. MusicIC presents free concerts and events focused on music for small ensembles and inspired by works of literature, both prose and poetry.
Tricia received her Bachelor and Master of Music from the Juilliard School where she studied with Dorothy DeLay. She has studied and performed chamber music with Felix Galimir, Pinchas Zukerman, Cho-Liang Lin, Michael Tree, Gary Hoffman, Paul Neubauer, Robert McDonald, and members of the American, Guarneri, Juilliard, and Orion String Quartets as well as the new music group, Eighth Blackbird.
Currently, Tricia is full-time Violin Faculty and Artist-in-Residence at the University of Notre Dame. For more information, please visit: www.triciapark.com
ABOUT TAYLOR
Hailed by a class of 2nd graders as “wreely nice and kind” and “the coolest man on erth,” Arizona native TAYLOR MORRIS enjoys blurring the line between violin and fiddle. After studying classical violin at Arizona State University with Dr. Katie McLin, he spent four years touring the world as one of five fiddlers with Barrage, a world-music violin troupe based out of Canada. His travels, both with Barrage and personally, have led to performances in 47 states and 13 countries with musicians from a multitude of backgrounds. Strongly believing we can learn more about the world through collaboration with others, Taylor actively pursues musical projects in different genres. Currently, he is part of Tricia & Taylor, a genre-bending violin/fiddle duo with concert violinist Tricia Park, and a member of The Sound Accord, a string sextet that creates vibrant arrangements of folk music. Other performers with whom Taylor has recently collaborated include: multi-style cellists Mike Block & Rushad Eggleston; fiddlers Hanneke Cassel, Casey Driessen, Jeremy Kittel, & Lauren Rioux; arts educator Steve Seidel; and the Tetra String Quartet.
Off of the stage, Taylor obtained a master's in education from Harvard University and is a passionate advocate for arts education. Since 2000, Taylor's teaching has taken him into classrooms around the country, with activities ranging from creating music-inspired art with kindergarteners to leading workshops at the University of Notre Dame and Arizona State University. As a kid, Taylor loved going to summer camps; as an adult, Taylor still loves going to summer camps. In addition to having taught at camps in Florida, Illinois, South Carolina, and Arizona, he also directs StringPlay, his own camp for young musicians in the Phoenix area. During the year, Taylor's main educational outlet is serving as a founding co-director of the Gilbert Town Fiddlers, an extracurricular high school fiddle group that collaborates to create its own arrangements for performance. Through his teaching, Taylor is ultimately on a serious mission to keep music as fun as possible, working with students and educators to explore the incredible variety of ways to make music with string instruments.
For more information about Taylor, please visit: www.taylormorrismusic.com
Off of the stage, Taylor obtained a master's in education from Harvard University and is a passionate advocate for arts education. Since 2000, Taylor's teaching has taken him into classrooms around the country, with activities ranging from creating music-inspired art with kindergarteners to leading workshops at the University of Notre Dame and Arizona State University. As a kid, Taylor loved going to summer camps; as an adult, Taylor still loves going to summer camps. In addition to having taught at camps in Florida, Illinois, South Carolina, and Arizona, he also directs StringPlay, his own camp for young musicians in the Phoenix area. During the year, Taylor's main educational outlet is serving as a founding co-director of the Gilbert Town Fiddlers, an extracurricular high school fiddle group that collaborates to create its own arrangements for performance. Through his teaching, Taylor is ultimately on a serious mission to keep music as fun as possible, working with students and educators to explore the incredible variety of ways to make music with string instruments.
For more information about Taylor, please visit: www.taylormorrismusic.com