It was hard to imagine how violinist Tessa Lark could top her impressive performance of Michael Torke’s “Sky,” a violin concerto he wrote for her, in her Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra debut Aug. 26. But for an encore, she dazzled even more with an improvisation that she had just invented. Based on a theme from a sonata by Belgian violin legend Eugène Ysaÿe, it was a showstopper full of technical feats and bluegrass licks. She called it “Ysaÿe Shuffle.”
Eckart Preu and the Chamber Orchestra…
