Violinist Tereza Stanislav was appointed assistant concertmaster of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra in 2003 by music director Jeffrey Kahane. Dividing her time among orchestral, chamber, recording and educational projects, Tereza has been hailed for her “expressive beauty and wonderful intensity” (Robert Mann) and her “sure technique and musical intelligence” (Calgary Herald).

An active chamber musician, Tereza has performed in venues including Alice Tully Hall, the Library of Congress, the Kennedy Center, the Ravinia Music Festival, the Chautauqua Festival, Merkin Concert Hall, La Jolla Summerfest, Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival, the Banff Center in Canada, St. Barth’s Music Festival and at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. She has performed in concert with artists including Gilbert Kalish, Jon Kimura Parker, Shauna Rolston, Jian Wang, Richard Young, Chris Millard, Leone Buyse and Mark Steinberg. In 2004, Tereza released a CD in collaboration with pianist Hung-Kuan Chen.

As a founding member of the Enso String Quartet, Tereza was awarded the Second Prize of the 2004 Banff International String Quartet Competition, and led the quartet to win the Special Prize awarded for best performance of the Piece de Concert, commissioned for the competition. The quartet was a winner of the 2003 Concert Artists Guild, Chamber Music Yellow Springs and Fischoff competitions.

With the Enso, Tereza is featured on the Naxos recording of the complete Ignaz Pleyel quartets, Op.2. The quartet was highlighted on the Minnesota Public Radio’s St. Paul Sunday in 2004 and was appointed to a Lectureship in String Quartet at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music in the 2004-2005 academic year.

An advocate for new music, Tereza traveled to Israel to represent the United States as the violinist in the New Juilliard Ensemble at the World Composer’s Symposium, under the direction of Dr. Joel Sachs. She has worked with composers including Joan Tower, Toshio Hosokawa and Karim Al-Zand. Premieres include James Matheson’s Violin Sonata, Bruce Adolphe’s Oceanophony, Kenji Bunch’s Tango Morendo II, and the West Coast premieres of Steve Reich’s Daniel Variations and Gernot Wolfgang’s Jazz and Cocktails. She is featured on a new recording of the Wolfgang on Albany Records.

Tereza holds a Bachelor of Music from Indiana University where she studied with Miriam Fried, and a Master of Music from the Juilliard School where her teachers were Robert Mann and Felix Galimir. As concertmaster of the Academie Europeene de Musique Festival in 1999, she received intensive orchestral and chamber music coaching from the late Isaac Stern. Tereza also completed quartet residencies at the Britten-Pears School in Aldeburgh, England, at Northern Illinois University under the tutelage of the Vermeer Quartet and at Rice University.

Tereza enjoys participating in educational outreach and has collaborated with educator Robert Kapilow of NPR’s program, What Makes It Great? and musicologist Robert Winter of UCLA. During her tenure with the Ensō Quartet, Tereza developed and performed programs for schools throughout the greater Chicago and Houston areas.

Tereza was invited to perform at the 2002 G-8 World Summit held in Kananaskis, Canada where she performed for Presidents Jacques Chirac and George W. Bush and former Canadian Prime Minister, Jean Chretien.

She is active in the film scoring industry in Los Angeles.

photo Michael Miller