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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 musical creativity through diverse styles. 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, fiddler, chamber musician, educator, festival curator, and writer.
Tricia is a recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant and was selected as one of "Korea's World Leaders of Tomorrow" by the Korean Daily Central newspaper. Since appearing in her first orchestral engagement at age 13 with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, she has performed with the English Chamber Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, and National Symphony Orchestra of South Africa; the Montreal, Dallas, Cincinnati, Seattle, Honolulu, Nevada, and Lincoln Symphonies; and the Calgary, Buffalo, and Westchester and Naples Philharmonics. She has given recitals throughout the United States and abroad, including a highly acclaimed performance at the Ravinia Rising Stars series. Tricia also performs as half of the violin-fiddle duo, Tricia & Taylor, with fiddler-violinist, Taylor Morris.
Tricia is the founder of the Solera Quartet, the winner of the 2017 Pro Musicis International Award and the first and only American chamber ensemble chosen for this distinction. Acclaimed as “top-notch, intense, stylish, and with an abundance of flare and talent,” the Solera Quartet will be presented in a debut recital at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall in 2018 to celebrate their addition to Pro Musicis’ roster. Other upcoming highlights include recitals in New York and Boston and the quartet’s highly anticipated European debut tour. This season will see the release of the Soleras’ first studio album, featuring music by Janacek, Mendelssohn, and Caroline Shaw, and the launch of a two-album recording project for Naxos, featuring chamber works of George Enescu.
Career highlights include Tricia’s recital debut at the Kennedy Center, appearances at the Lincoln Center Festival in Bright Sheng's The Silver River, her Korean debut performance with the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) Orchestra and collaborations with composer Tan Dun. As First Violinist of the Maia Quartet from 2005-2011, she performed at Lincoln Center and the 92nd Street Y in New York and Beijing’s Forbidden City Hall and was on faculty at the University of Iowa.
Passionate about arts education and community development, 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 inspired by works of literature, both prose and poetry. She is also a published author and her writing has appeared in Cleaver and Alyss magazines. Currently, Tricia is a pursuing an MFA in writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she is a recipient of the New Artist Society Scholarship.
Tricia received her Bachelor and Master of Music from the Juilliard School where she studied with Dorothy DeLay. She is a recipient of the Starling-DeLay Teaching Fellowship at the Juilliard School. 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. Other former teachers include Cho-Liang Lin, Donald Weilerstein, Hyo Kang and Piotr Milewski.
Get to know more about Tricia at www.triciapark.com.
Tricia is a recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant and was selected as one of "Korea's World Leaders of Tomorrow" by the Korean Daily Central newspaper. Since appearing in her first orchestral engagement at age 13 with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, she has performed with the English Chamber Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, and National Symphony Orchestra of South Africa; the Montreal, Dallas, Cincinnati, Seattle, Honolulu, Nevada, and Lincoln Symphonies; and the Calgary, Buffalo, and Westchester and Naples Philharmonics. She has given recitals throughout the United States and abroad, including a highly acclaimed performance at the Ravinia Rising Stars series. Tricia also performs as half of the violin-fiddle duo, Tricia & Taylor, with fiddler-violinist, Taylor Morris.
Tricia is the founder of the Solera Quartet, the winner of the 2017 Pro Musicis International Award and the first and only American chamber ensemble chosen for this distinction. Acclaimed as “top-notch, intense, stylish, and with an abundance of flare and talent,” the Solera Quartet will be presented in a debut recital at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall in 2018 to celebrate their addition to Pro Musicis’ roster. Other upcoming highlights include recitals in New York and Boston and the quartet’s highly anticipated European debut tour. This season will see the release of the Soleras’ first studio album, featuring music by Janacek, Mendelssohn, and Caroline Shaw, and the launch of a two-album recording project for Naxos, featuring chamber works of George Enescu.
Career highlights include Tricia’s recital debut at the Kennedy Center, appearances at the Lincoln Center Festival in Bright Sheng's The Silver River, her Korean debut performance with the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) Orchestra and collaborations with composer Tan Dun. As First Violinist of the Maia Quartet from 2005-2011, she performed at Lincoln Center and the 92nd Street Y in New York and Beijing’s Forbidden City Hall and was on faculty at the University of Iowa.
Passionate about arts education and community development, 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 inspired by works of literature, both prose and poetry. She is also a published author and her writing has appeared in Cleaver and Alyss magazines. Currently, Tricia is a pursuing an MFA in writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she is a recipient of the New Artist Society Scholarship.
Tricia received her Bachelor and Master of Music from the Juilliard School where she studied with Dorothy DeLay. She is a recipient of the Starling-DeLay Teaching Fellowship at the Juilliard School. 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. Other former teachers include Cho-Liang Lin, Donald Weilerstein, Hyo Kang and Piotr Milewski.
Get to know more about Tricia at 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 48 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, & Natalie Haas; fiddlers Hanneke Cassel, Casey Driessen, Jeremy Kittel, & Lauren Rioux; arts educator Steve Seidel; and the Tetra String Quartet.
Offstage, 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, University of the Pacific, Millikin University, and Arizona State University. His varied work has also led him to be selected for presentations at each of the major national conferences for music educators: American String Teachers Association (ASTA), Midwest Clinic, and National Association for Music Education (NAfME). 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, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Carolina, and Utah, he 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. Currently, he is in the midst of a three-year project as a Guest Lecturer at Arizona State University, working with Dr. Katie McLin and her students to explore multi-style music education and entrepreneurship. 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
Offstage, 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, University of the Pacific, Millikin University, and Arizona State University. His varied work has also led him to be selected for presentations at each of the major national conferences for music educators: American String Teachers Association (ASTA), Midwest Clinic, and National Association for Music Education (NAfME). 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, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Carolina, and Utah, he 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. Currently, he is in the midst of a three-year project as a Guest Lecturer at Arizona State University, working with Dr. Katie McLin and her students to explore multi-style music education and entrepreneurship. 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