Tara Helen O'Connor

ABOUT TARA

Tara Helen O'Connor is a charismatic performer noted for her artistic depth, brilliant technique, and colorful tone spanning every musical era. Winner of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and a two-time Grammy nominee, she is now a season artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. A Wm. S. Haynes flute artist, Tara regularly participates in the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Music@Menlo, the Chamber Music Festival of the Bluegrass, Spoleto USA, Chamber Music Northwest, Mainly Mozart Festival, Music from Angel Fire, the Banff Centre, the Great Mountains Music Festival, Chesapeake Music Festival and the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival.

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SELECT RECORDINGS

Sleep is Behind the Door: Lullabies for Disaster Relief

CD Baby/itunes Download (700261208558),
Mar 2006 (Download)

Composers: Trad.
Artists: Courtenay Budd, Sylvia McNair, Daniel Phillips, Tara Helen O’Connor, Molly Morkoski, Alisa Weillerstein, Corey Cerovsek, Oren Fader, Paul Greenwood, Todd Darren Palmer, Claire Bryant, Fuma Sacra choral ensemble

Mindscape

BRIDGE (9204),
Sep 2006 (CD)

Composers: Akemi Naito
Artists: Tara Helen O'Connor, William Moersch, Richard O'Neill, June Han, Claudio Jacomucci, Junko Ueda, Cygnus Ensemble

The Way Things Go

Bridge (9467),
Jan 2016 (CD)

Composers: Randall Woolf, Steven Mackey, John Halle, Eric Moe, Belinda Reynolds, Richard Festinger, Laura Kaminsky
Artists: Tara Helen O'Connor, flute & alto flute; Margaret Kampmeier, piano

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