Natalie Rose Kress

VIOLIN

Praised by the New York Times for her “splendid playing,” Natalie Rose Kress is a Baroque violinist based in Washington, D.C.. She was awarded the Jules C. Reiner Violin Prize from the Tanglewood Music Center, and the English Concert in America Fellowship through The Juilliard School. She performed with Yo-Yo Ma at the Kennedy Center Honors, honoring Seiji Ozawa and gave the world premiere of Leonard Bernstein’s Music for String Quartet at the Linde Center at Tanglewood in 2021 with members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She can be heard on the first commercial recording of Bernstein’s Music for String Quartet, recorded by Parma Recordings, released in 2023. As a member of the period ensemble, Quartet Salonnières, she was awarded the 2022 U.S. Embassy Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Public Diplomacy Grant to perform throughout Tanzania in January 2023. Besides performing with The Handel and Haydn Society, she frequently performs with The Washington Bach Consort, Opera Lafayette, and her founding period ensembles University of Maryland Baroque Orchestra, Musicivic Baroque, Quartet Salonnières, and Relic Ensemble. She attended Stony Brook University studying with Soovin Kim, The Juilliard School studying historical performance with Cynthia Roberts, and is currently a Doctoral student studying historical performance pedagogy at The University of Maryland under the guidance of David Salness and Kenneth Slowik. She plays on a David Folland violin and a Richard Riggall bow.