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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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

The Way Things Go

Bridge (9467),
Jan 2016 (CD)

Composers: Randall Woolf, Steven Mackey, John Halle, Eric Moe, Belinda Reynolds, Richard Festinger, Laura Kaminsky
Artists: Tara Helen O'Connor, flute & alto flute; Margaret Kampmeier, piano

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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