Molly Carr

Violist MOLLY CARR of Reno, Nevada, is a student of Heidi Castleman and Steve Tenenbom at the Juilliard School.  Her former teachers include Patinka Kopec and Pinchas Zukerman, at the Manhattan School of Music, and Virginia Blakeman Lenz, at the University of Nevada, Reno.  Molly was the First Prize winner for viola in the 2002 National Solo Competition of the American String Teacher’s Association, a 2004 Davidson Fellow, receiving a $25,000 scholarship award endowed by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development, and a 2005 Level I Award Finalist in the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts’ prestigious Arts Recognition and Talent Search Program.

Molly performed at Carnegie Hall as part of the 2003 New York String Orchestra, conducted by Jaime Laredo, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., with the Washington Chamber Symphony’s 2002 Viva Vivaldi! All Girl Orchestra.  She appeared on PBS’s Live From Lincoln Center and CBS’s Kennedy Center Honors Program in 2003, with Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman and fellow students of the Perlman Music Program.  Molly was also a member of the 1999 Disney Young Musicians’ Symphony Orchestra, whose performance at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall was conducted by Lucas Richman.  She has performed on National Public Radio’s From The Top with Christopher O’Riley, and has been a soloist with the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra, the Reno Chamber Orchestra and the Carson City Symphony. 

Molly has also enjoyed playing chamber music – at the Juilliard School, the Manhattan School of Music, and as a participant of the Perlman Music Program, The NAC (Canada) Young Artists’ Program, The Innsbrook Institute, California Summer Music, and Chamber Music Wyoming summer festivals. 

Molly plays on a contemporary instrument made by Stanley Kiernoziak.