Star violinist Tessa Lark remembers her first professional engagement as a performing artist. It was with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, for two back-to-back Young People’s Concerts. She was 16 years old, and in the Starling Preparatory String Project at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
It was a defining moment in her career.
“I just remember being kind of nervous for the first time,” she said. “For the second concert, I remember having so much excitement…
