Lisa Romain
violin

Violinist Lisa Romain has performed throughout the American northeast and internationally as a soloist with New Jersey's Summit Symphony and the Orchestra at William Paterson University and as a chamber musician in collaboration with such renowned artists as pianist Jerome Lowenthal, violinist Ulf Hoelscher, and cellist Diana Ligeti. Additional chamber music performances have taken her to venues such as New York's Alice Tully Hall and Bochum's Thürmer Saal in Germany. A graduate of The Juilliard School, Ms. Romain has served as concertmaster of the conductorless Juilliard Chamber Orchestra and also appeared twice as a member of the Juilliard Orchestra on PBS's nationally televised broadcasts of Live from Lincoln Center.

Ms. Romain has also taken an interest in contemporary music and in working with today's composers. Most recently, she gave the world premiere of Joan Panetti's A Gust Inside a God for string quintet, oboe, clarinet, percussion, and choir, which was commissioned for the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival's 100th Anniversary of the Music Shed. While at Juilliard, she was assisted by American composer Jefferson Friedman in the study of his String Quartet No. 2, and she has also premiered works by composition students at Juilliard, including Tom Barber, Reena Esmail, Ryan Gallagher, Christopher Kapica, and Yui Kitamura.

Ms. Romain is currently a student of Laurie Smukler in the Master of Music degree program at the Mannes College of Music. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from The Juilliard School where she studied with Sally Thomas. Her other teachers include David Updegraff, Ann Setzer, and Steven Rochen. She has participated in master classes presented by Jacques Israelievitch, Paul Katz, Seymour Lipkin, Ruggiero Ricci, and Philip Setzer. Previous summers have been spent at the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and Meadowmount School of Music.