Heather Miller Lardin, violone 

Heather Miller Lardin, Artistic Director of Ithaca, New York’s period instrument ensemble NYS Baroque, is a double bassist and viol player.  She frequently performs with period instrument ensembles throughout the Northeast and has appeared with Brandywine Baroque, The Publick Musick, ARTEK, Philomel, New York City Opera, and the New York Collegium.  As a modern double bassist, she has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, and was a member of the Virginia Symphony from 1996 to 2002.  She has served on the double bass faculty of the Strings International Music Festival and Temple University (Music Preparatory Division), the viol faculty of the Amherst Early Music Festival, and directed the Cornell Collegium from 2003-2006.  Ms. Lardin recently received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Performance Practice from Cornell University and is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music.  Her dissertation, a translation with commentary of Michel Corrette's 1773 treatise on double bass, viola and viole d’Orphée, was awarded the Donald J. Grout Memorial Scholarship for Outstanding Dissertation.