BIO

Violist Jane Lenz (Larson) is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (Bachelor of Music), studying with Kirsten Docter, and the Juilliard School (Master of Music), studying with Carol Rodland.

While at Juilliard, Jane received a Morse Teaching Artist Fellowship allowing her to develop her teaching skills and work with local students through community engagement collaborations in New York City. She has worked as a coach with the Williamsburg Youth Symphony, Northern Ohio Youth Orchestras and as a teacher for Chicagoland’s Ping! program, providing young students equitable access to private lessons and instruments. Jane is also on faculty at StringTime Music in Burke, VA, which takes place each July.

Jane has performed around the country including multiple summers with the Adirondacks Performing Arts Fellowship’s orchestra and string quartet, Chicagoland’s 6:26 Concert Series, and as a member of the Kenaniah Project, a Rochester, New York-based collaborative ensemble combining Christian faith and artistic excellence. After moving to the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, she began teaching Applied Viola at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, VA, and appearing with the Virginia Symphony, Richmond Symphony, and Williamsburg Symphony. As a baroque violist, she has enjoyed performing with Juilliard415, the Oberlin Baroque Ensemble, and studying with Cynthia Roberts through secondary lessons during her time at Juilliard.

Jane was a 2019 Concerto Competition winner at Oberlin, and a second prize winner in the 2019 Ohio Viola Society competition. During her time at Oberlin she was part of the Performing Artists In Residence program at the Oberlin Center for the Arts, and formed string quartets which have performed in New York, Massachusetts, Illinois and Nebraska for various performance opportunities.

Jane enjoys skiing, cooking, and playing board games in her free time with her husband Patrick, the Composer/Arranger of the U.S. Air Force Heritage of America Band.

Photo Credit: Rosen-Jones Photography