Violinist Rose Mary Harbison is a founding member of Emmanuel Music, Boston, with whom she has performed many cantatas on their Sunday Cantata Series, and the Beethoven Violin Concerto, the Fantasy for Violin and Piano, the Piano Trio in Eb, the Violin Partita in D and other works on their Evening and Chamber Series. Recent performances include Bach’s D minor Partita (Boston), Harbison’s Crane Sightings (Tanglewood), and Schoenberg’s Phantasy (Los Angeles). Recent projects include her highly acclaimed recording of John Harbison’s Violin Concerto (Koch International), and a recording of Schoenberg’s Violin Concerto, with the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, soon to be released on Koch. She has appeared as soloist with the Oakland, Milwaukee, and Pittsburgh Symphonies, and has worked directly with many composers, including Aaron Copland and Roger Sessions. With Rudolph Kolisch she founded the Kolisch Ensemble, and continues to be an advocate for his performance practice, presenting seminars at the Tanglewood and Aspen music festivals.

Ms. Harbison taught at Brandeis University and MIT, was named a Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute and was winner of an Ingram-Merrill Award. With John Harbison she is co-Artistic Director of the annual Token Creek Chamber Music Festival. She has completed, with physicist Jack Fry, a documentary video to accompany the forthcoming book on Professor Fry’s groundbreaking research into the acoustical properties of the world’s finest violins. They presented their work, “Solving the Stradivarius Secret,” at the Boston Museum of Science on March 25th 2009. Ms. Harbison will be featured in Emmanuel Music’s Lindsey Chapel Series in March 2015, presenting Bach Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004.