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Lenora Anop, violin/viola
Lenora-MaryaAnop is Professor of Violin and Viola, and Director of Strings at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE). A passionate, dedicated and accomplished pedagogue, her students have won orchestral positions in the United States and Asia, have competed in regional and national chamber music competitions, and have been appointed to teaching positions across the United States, Asia, and the Middle East. A testament to her success: her studio is filled with many grand-students, i.e. students of her former students,who have sent forward the next generation of instrumentalists. Students blossom under her caring, supportive, thorough,and dedicated tutelage.
Dr. Anopalso enjoys a busy performing career as a soloist, chamber musician, and concertmaster. She is “ravishing . . . with [her] lean yet intense … violin particularly capturing the spirit of [the] music” (San Francisco Chronicle), “a highly skilled and invested violinist, who brought a lovely singing tone to her playing … top-notch performance(s) … meltingly sensitive” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). She “played with balance and sympathy . . . [and] achieved a fine, lyric intensity” (Cleveland Plain Dealer); had “beautiful soloistic passages . . . well-performed”; “first-rate” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). Following a performance of a J.S. Bach violin concerto: “Concertmistress Lenora-MaryaAnop assayed the solo part with passion and clarity. This was a fiery performance, as fine as one would wish to hear in any of the world’s musical capitals.” (St. Louis Beacon).
She is the Concertmaster of the Bach Society of Saint Louis Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis, the Salem Chamber Orchestra, and is the violinist of Trio Musici. An avid period artist, she also performs on Baroque and Classical period instruments.
“BACH Unlocked” is her current project. By meticulously combing through the four original manuscript sources of J. S. Bach’s Cellos Suites Nos. 1 & 2, she wrote and recorded ascholarly violin transcription of these two suites through which she introduces the student / performer to period performance style and baroque ornamentation. The CD is available for purchase on her website: BACHUnlocked.comand the companion score will be available in summer 2021. Otherrecent projects include solo performances of violin concerti by Mozart, J. S. Bach, Vaughan Williams, Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, as well as soloing while leading the orchestra in Bach’s Brandenburg concerti.
“BACH Unlocked” is her current project. By meticulously combing through the four original manuscript sources of J. S. Bach’s Cellos Suites Nos. 1 & 2, she wrote and recorded ascholarly violin transcription of these two suites through which she introduces the student / performer to period performance style and baroque ornamentation. The CD is available for purchase on her website: BACHUnlocked.comand the companion score will be available in summer 2021. Otherrecent projects include solo performances of violin concerti by Mozart, J. S. Bach, Vaughan Williams, Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, as well as soloing while leading the orchestra in Bach’s Brandenburg concerti.
Beginning her violin studies at age 3 in Denver, Colorado (USA), she was one of the very first Suzuki students in the United States. She received her Bachelor of Music with Honors in Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music, Master of Music degree from Yale University, and Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Michigan.
She performs on a violin made by Hieronymus Amati II in Cremona, Italy (1692).