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Melony Dodson talks with violinist, Lara St. John

Martin Kennedy

Canadian violinist, Lara St. John has been playing the violin since the age of two (and a half).  She has performed all over the world and was one of the first professional musicians to create her own record label (Ancalagon).  She performs and commissions new works, as well as "the classics," such as Mozart's 4th violin concerto, which she will be playing tonight (November 15th, 2013) with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra.  Ms. St. John is a passionate performer with a vibrant tone.

Melony calls the beautiful mountains of Boone, N.C., home, although she was born near Greensboro, N.C. There’s just something about those Blue Ridge Mountains that got in her blood and never left after she moved there to attend Appalachian State University (ASU). While at ASU, she majored in piano performance and music therapy and began to cultivate a love for accompanying and for collaborating with other musicians. This soon led her to earn a master’s degree in collaborative piano at the University of Tennessee, which she attended from 2006-2008.