Lara St. John

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Lara St. John Biography

Violinist and founder of Ancalagon LLC, an artist-owned label that was an early adopter of music distribution through the internet.

She began playing violin when she was two years old and had her solo debut two years later. When she was ten years old, St. John was invited to play with the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon.

She has worked with many symphonies across the world, including the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra and the Queensland Orchestra.

Her mother taught music and her father taught language; they encouraged St. John and her brother to nurture their musical talents at a young age.

Her album of solo violin music by Johann Sebastian Bach was deemed controversial due to its cover, which featured St. John’s chest covered only by her violin.

Lara St. John (born April 15, 1971) is a Canadian violinist.

In 1976, at the age of five, she began making frequent trips with her mother and brother to Cleveland, Ohio, where the young St. John worked under the instruction of Linda Cerone. In 1979, she spent a year in Paris studying with Gérard Jarry. In 1980, at the age of 9, she won grand prize at the Canadian Music Competition.

In 1988, when she was sixteen, she moved on her own to the former Soviet Union, becoming the youngest post-graduate student at the Moscow Conservatory. In that same year, St. John traveled throughout the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, where she encountered the Romani people, a cultural experience that would later influence her musical performance projects.

At the time of its release, St. John received attention for her then-controversial photo on the cover of her debut album, Bach Works for Violin Solo (1996): an image of her holding her violin across her otherwise unclothed body. The album sold over 25,000 copies, a best seller by the standards of the classical music industry.

In 1997, upon winning the Canada Council Stradivarius Prize, St. John was given the two-year use of a Lyall Stradivarius built in 1702. In 1999, an anonymous donor made a permanent loan to St. John of the 1779 “Salabue” Guadagnini.

In 1999, St. John founded the artist-owned record company, Ancalagon LLC.She formed the company as a result of her personal dissatisfaction with the marketing and production approach of larger recording companies. St. John named the record company after her pet iguana, Ancalagon.

From 2002 to 2007, St. John performed with the Canadian music ensemble Bowfire.

St. John’s recordings have been popular on iTunes. Her Bach: The Six Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Solo was iTunes’ best-selling double album of 2007. Her previous recording, Bach: The Concerto Album, rose to number one in the iTunes’ classical category in 2005, shortly after appearing in the “strongly recommended” section of Gramophone. Apolkalypse Now, featuring St. John as a member of the group Polkastra, was released on iTunes in July 2009.

At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, gold medalist Nastia Liukin performed her floor routine to “Variations on Dark Eyes (Occhi Chornye)”, from St. John’s Gypsy album.

Winner 2011 Juno Classical Album of the Year – Large Ensemble or Soloist(s) with Large Ensemble Accompaniment

In 2012, she produced and performed in the 25th anniversary concert of Astor Piazzolla’s “Four Seasons of Buenos Aires” in New York’s Central Park.

In 2018 she served as artistic curator for Wolf Trap Chamber Music at the Barns.

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