Tara Hagle
Instrument: Violin
Studies:
New England Conservatory, Boston
Biography:
Tara Hagle is a violinist from the Chicago area. Currently she is pursuing her Bachelor’s Degree in Violin Performance at the New England Conservatory, studying with Ayano Ninomiya.
Tara’s love for music blossomed at the Merit School of Music, where she studied with Erica Carpenedo. She spent her high school years as a merit scholarship fellow at the Music Institute of Chicago Academy Program as a student of Almita Vamos and Davis King. In past summers, she has performed at the Bowdoin International Music Festival, the Academy of Domaine Forget de Charlevoix, and the Bendada Music Festival in Portugal. She has also been invited to participate in masterclasses with Arnold Steinhardt, Vadim Gluzman, Rachel Barton Pine, Robert Chen, and Ani Kavafian, among others.
Tara is passionate about exploring music from all angles. She has particularly enjoyed taking baroque violin lessons with Adriane Post through NEC’s Pratt Program for Early Music, and subsequently co-founded NEC’s student-led period instrument program ensemble. Tara also frequently plays the works of emerging composers and has premiered several works written by her colleagues and friends. Always enthusiastic about a creative project, she has enjoyed exploring interdisciplinary programming of music in conjunction with visual art, design, and poetry. For the last three years, Tara has been an ensemble fellow for the NEC Community Partnerships and Performance program, where she created and performed interactive, interdisciplinary programs to a variety of audiences in schools, senior living facilities, and community spaces around Boston.
In her free time, she loves to read several books at once, write poetry, dabble in creating artwork of various forms, and go on long walks and runs around Boston.
Tara plays on an instrument generously provided by a scholarship grant from the Virtu Foundation.
