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

Unseen

Ecstatic Records (ER092402),
Jun 2024 (CD)

Composers: Michael Torke
Artists: Tara O’Connor, Adeline DeBella, Toyin Spellman-Diaz, Noah Kay, Alan Kay, Yu-Ting Cheng, Monica Ellis, Gina Cuffari, John Clark, Jeffrey Scott, Kevin Newton, Eric C. Davis, Chris Martin, Ray Riccomini, Joseph Alessi, Marshall Gilkes, Carlos Jiménez Fernández, Colin Williams, Eric Poland, Ian Rosenbaum, Amir Farid and The East Coast Chamber Orchestra

Mysterium

Tzadik (8018),
Oct 2005 (CD)

Composers: John Zorn
Artists: Tara O'Connor, Lisa Bielawa, Martha Cluver, Abby Fischer, Kirsten Sollek, Martha Sullivan, Jennifer Choi, Lois Martin, Richard O'Neill, Fred Sherry, June Han, Stephen Gosling, David Shively, Ikue Mori, Brad Lubman

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