Lara St. John (born April 15, 1971 in London, Ontario) is a Canadian violinist. Read full biography of Lara St. John →
I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life... →
I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that... →
And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time.
Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.
The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like.
When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.
However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things... →
Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do... →
A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female... →
I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all... →
Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions.
Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.
Lara St. John (born April 15, 1971 in London, Ontario) is a Canadian violinist.