Grammy-nominated violinist Tessa Lark and innovative cellist Joshua Roman have joined with renowned bassist, composer and seven-time Grammy winner Edgar Meyer for a musical milestone.

This new collaboration of three artistically like-minded artists, each carving out their own niche in American music, tours together for the first time in a program including Bach and a new Edgar Meyer work written specifically for this tour. 

The evening’s program, performed by the three luminary artists and co-commissioned by the Gogue Performing Arts Center, features Meyer’s two 1980s trios along with a third finished in 2024, and is accompanied by Bach’s Sonata for Viola de Gamba in G Major. 

The complete program for this performance will be announced in Fall 2025.

More about Lark, Roman & Meyer

More about Lark, Roman & Meyer

Tessa Lark, violin

Violinist Tessa Lark is one of the most captivating artistic voices of our time, consistently praised by critics and audiences for her astounding range of sounds, technical agility and musical elegance. In 2020, she was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Classical Instrumental Solo category, and she is also a highly acclaimed fiddler in the tradition of her native Kentucky.

Highlights of Lark’s 2023–24 season include the world premiere of Carlos Izcaray’s Violin Concerto and performances of Michael Torke’s violin concerto, Sky—both pieces written for her—as well as her European orchestral debut with the Stuttgart Philharmonic. She also performs with the Virginia Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, England’s City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and others; and gives duo concerts with double bassist Michael Thurber and jazz guitarist Frank Vignola.

In addition to her performance schedule, Lark champions young aspiring artists and supports the next generation of musicians through her work as co-host/creative of NPR’s From the Top.

Joshua Roman, cello

Edgar Meyer, double bass

Hailed by The New Yorker as “the most remarkable virtuoso in the relatively un-chronicled history of his instrument,” Edgar Meyer’s uniqueness in the field was recognized when he became the only bassist to be awarded the Avery Fisher Prize in addition to a MacArthur Award. This year, he was honored with his sixth and seventh Grammy awards for the recording entitled As We Speak with Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain and Rakesh Chaurasia, released in May 2023.

Meyer recently released a duo recording, But Who’s Gonna Play the Melody?, with Christian McBride and completed a recording of his three concertos with The Knights, conducted by Eric Jacobsen and produced by Chris Thile. In June of 2023, to complete the concerto project, Meyer recorded his Concertino for Bass and 14 Strings in the U.K. with the Scottish Ensemble led by Jonathan Morton, who commissioned and toured the piece with Meyer in spring of 2022. Additionally, Meyer is part of a five-composer group, each having composed a movement for a U.S. premiere with Joshua Bell and the New York Philharmonic in September of 2023.

His newly formed trio with violinist Tessa Lark and cellist Joshua Roman tours the U.S. in 2025, performing string trios he composed in the 1980s as well as a newly commissioned work. Meyer is the subject of an ongoing documentary filmed and produced by Tessa Lark, Andrew Adair and Michael Thurber.

After meeting Tessa and Joshua a few years ago, I realized that they were perfect for helping me document this personal milestone. I have now set out to write a new trio for us to ‘complete the thought.’

— Edgar Meyer

After meeting Tessa and Joshua a few years ago, I realized that they were perfect for helping me document this personal milestone. I have now set out to write a new trio for us to ‘complete the thought.’

— Edgar Meyer

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