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, film studio and educational projects, Stanislav has been hailed for her “expressive beauty and her wonderful intensityâ€? (Robert Mann) and her “sure technique and musical intelligenceâ€? (_Calgary Herald_).

As a chamber musician, Stanislav has performed at Alice Tully Hall, the Library of Congress, the Kennedy Center, Merkin Concert Hall, the Banff Center in Canada and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. She has appeared at the Ravinia, Chautauqua, Charlottesville Chamber and St. Barth’s music festivals and the La Jolla Summerfest, and she has been heard in recital with such artists as Gilbert Kalish, Jon Kimura Parker, Jeffrey Kahane, Richard Young and Chris Millard. In 2002, Stanislav performed at the G-8 World Summit in Canada for Presidents Jacques Chirac and George W. Bush and former Canadian Prime Minister, Jean Chrétien.

Stanislav has won numerous awards, most recently at the 2003 Concert Artists Guild, Chamber Music Yellow Springs and Fischoff competitions. A founding member of the Enso Quartet, Stanislav was awarded the Second Prize at the 2004 Banff International String Quartet Competition and led the quartet to win the Special Prize for best performance of the “Pièce de concert,â€? commissioned for the competition. The quartet was appointed to a lectureship in String Quartet at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music for the 2004-05 academic year.

An advocate for new music, Stanislav has worked with composers such as Joan Tower, Toshio Hosokawa and Karim Al-Zand, and premiered pieces by James Matheson, Bruce Adolphe, Kenji Bunch, Steve Reich and Gernot Wolfgang. She represented the United States at the World Composers’ Symposium with the New Juilliard Ensemble. Her discography includes a CD with pianist Hung-Kuan Chen, a recording of Gernot Wolfgang’s compositions on Albany Records, and the complete Ignaz Pleyel Quartets, Op. 2 on Naxos with the Enso Quartet.

Stanislav holds a Bachelor of Music from Indiana University and a Master of Music from the Juilliard School. She has studied with Miriam Fried, Robert Mann and Felix Galimir and received intensive coaching from the late Isaac Stern. Stanislav also completed quartet residences at Northern Illinois University, Rice University and the Britten-Pears School in Aldeburgh, England.

She enjoys participating in educational outreach. During her tenure with the Enso Quartet, Stanislav developed and performed programs for schools throughout the greater Chicago and Houston areas.

photo Michael Miller