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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Broken Consort

CRI (NWCR834),
Jun 2000 (CD)

Composers: Sebastian Currier, John Halle, Charles Wuorinen, Chester Biscardi, David Lang, William Anderson, Anthony Braxton, Robert Pollock
Artists: Cygnus Ensemble: Tara Helen O'Connor, Elizabeth Farnum, Jacqueline Leclair, Jacqui Carrasco, Joan Forsyth,, John Whitfield, Oren Fader, William Anderson

Transcriptions for Wind Quintet

MSR Classics (MS1130),
Jun 2005 (CD)

Composers: Maurice Ravel
Artists: Windscape: Tara Helen O' Connor, Randall Wolfgang, Alan R. Kay, David Jolley, Frank Morelli

Music@Menlo Live: 2016 Russian Reflections Disc 7

Music@Menlo Live (B01N54J7RO),
Feb 2017 (CD)

Composers: Rachmaninov, Prokofiev and Mozart
Artists: Tara Helen O’Connor, Wu Qian, Ani Kavafian, Paul Huang, Paul Neubauer, Matthew Lipman, Clive Greensmith, Lucille Chung, and Gloria Chen

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