MELISSA REARDON

GRAMMY^®-nominated violist Melissa Reardon performs internationally as a member of Enso String Quartet and as a founding member of the East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO). She is a first prize winner of the Washington International Competition, and has appeared in numerous festivals across the United States, Europe, India and Korea. She has toured with Musicians from Marlboro and with Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble and in 2006 was chosen as one of four violists internationally to participate in Chamber Music Connects the World, with Gidon Kremer and Yuri Bashmet in Kronberg, Germany. Melissa Reardon holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music and the New England Conservatory. Her principal teachers include Kim Kashkashian, Michael Tree, Joseph de Pasquale, Karen Tuttle, Samuel Rhodes, and Hsin-Yun Huang. Early chamber music studies were with Eugene Lehner. Since 2007 she has held the position of assistant professor of viola at East Carolina University.