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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Chimeras

Tzadik (7085b),
Apr 2003 (CD)

Composers: John Zorn
Artists: Tara O'Connor, Jennifer Choi, Ilana Davidson, Stephen Drury, Elizabeth Farnum, Brad Lubman, Fred Sherry, William Winant, Mike Lowenstern

A Menacing Plume

New World Records (80747),
Apr 2014 (CD)

Composers: Rand Steiger
Artists: Talea Ensemble: James Baker, Tara Helen O’Connor, Arthur Sato, Steven Beck, Stephen Gosling, Matthew Gold, Alex Lipowski, Yuki Numata Resnick, Chris Gross, Olivier Pasquet, Rand Steiger, Rane Moore, Elizabeth Weisser; Miller Puckette, Rand Steiger, Ben Reimer, and Leanne Zacharias

On Alligators

Tzadik (8010),
Jan 2005 (CD)

Composers: Charles Wuorinen
Artists: Charles Wuorinen, Tara O'Connor, Fred Sherry, Kevin Bowyer, Jennifer Frautschi, Peter Kolkay, Sunghae Anna Lim, Charles Neidich, Richard O'Neill, Gerard Reuter, Herbert Blomstedt, Garrick Ohlsson, Brentano String Quartet, San Francisco Symphony

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