Lara St. John (born on April 15, 1971 in London, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian violinist of Scottish origin. Biography St. John was born into a musical family. While her father taught French and Spanish and coach basketball at a high school in nearby Arva, her mother is a music teacher. Her older brother Scott is a professor of music at the University of Toronto and plays violin and viola. St. John started playing violin at the age of 2. When she was 5 she already had her first solo performance. At he age of 10 she had her first performance in Lisbon, two and three years later she toured Spain, France, Portugal and Hungary. Due to an Ontario law which permitted it, she was exempted from all school subjects except music. At the age of 14 she entered the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. After graduating there three years later she wanted to enter the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. While she was settling in, many teachers, includin

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