Lauren Avery - Durango Wedding Violinist

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Professional Violin and String Music for Your Durango Wedding

Providing solo violin, duo, trio, or string quartet music to make every moment of your wedding ceremony special.

Welcome to DurangoWeddingViolinist.com! I'm Lauren Avery, a professional violinist with years of experience adding a touch of elegance and charm to weddings and special events in beautiful Durango and all over southwest Colorado. From timeless classics to your favorite modern melodies, I create personalized musical moments that make your big day truly unforgettable.

Lauren Avery holding a violin at Durango Wedding Violinist

About Lauren Avery, Violinist

Lauren Avery is concertmaster of the San Juan Symphony and lives in Durango, Colorado. She also has performed regularly as a member of the Berkeley Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, California Symphony, Napa Valley Philharmonic, Sacramento Philharmonic, and many other ensembles in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has spent summers with festivals such as the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in Santa Cruz with Marin Alsop, Spoleto USA, Durango’s own Music in the Mountains Festival, and the Opera Theater and Music Festival of Lucca, Italy, and toured in Muscat, Oman with conductor Lorin Maazel and the Castleton Festival’s production of La Bohème.

Lauren is a certified Suzuki violin teacher and enjoys working with students from young children to adults, beginner to advanced. She also enjoys teaching viola, leading orchestral audition preparation courses, and particularly loves coaching student chamber ensembles. Her students have gone on to win awards and scholarships all across the country.

She has an undergraduate degree in music and biology from Vassar College, a Master’s Degree in Violin Performance from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, and spent a year of post-graduate intensive orchestral repertoire study with members of the Munich Philharmonic while living abroad in Germany. When not performing or teaching, Lauren enjoys gardening, birding, and exploring with her husband, conductor Thomas Heuser, and their son Theo.

What others Durango Wedding clients have to say…

Hire Lauren for violin and string wedding ceremony music ~ locally based in Durango, CO

laurenaveryviolinist@gmail.com

I am locally based in Durango, Colorado and can accommodate weddings and special events in the Four Corners region including Telluride, Ouray, Silverton, Cortez, and Farmington, NM.