Karen Ferry
Karen Lela Ferry, age twelve, has been studying violin for
nine years with Deborah Moench of Salt Lake City, Utah. Karen is both the 2013
and 2012 winner of the Utah Symphony Youth Guild competition, Elementary
Division; the 2011 first place winner of the Utah Music Teacher’s Association
Concerto Competition, Elementary/Junior High Division; as well as the 2011
first place winner of the American String Teachers Association Stringfest at
Weber State University, upper elementary division. In 2009 Karen was a featured
soloist with the Riverton Metropolitan Orchestra.
Karen has received nine superior ratings on violin and four on piano from the National Federation of Music Clubs. She has participated in the Intermountain Suzuki String Institute and Advanced String Camp for several years where she has been coached by Jenny Oaks Baker and members of the Fry Street Quartet of Utah State University. Karen is a member of the Rocky Mountain Strings, a group of 45 young violinists from along the Wasatch front with whom she concertized in Belgium and France the summer of 2011.
Karen is also a full-scholarship student of the Gifted Music School and a member of its orchestra directed by Eugene Watanabe. In 2012, as a member of the orchestra ,she accompanied Leon Fleisher as he performed the Mozart Piano Concerto #12, K414. Similarly, in April and May of this year, she will rehearse and perform with classical music commentator and pianist, Bill McLaughlin and Maestro Joseph Silverstein. In 2009 she was featured with the orchestra on Christopher O’Riley’s nationally acclaimed NPR program, “From the Top” and in 2012 on KBYU’s Route 89 classical music program. With the orchestra, she helped raise $40,000 for the Children’s Justice Center by performing on the 2010 “Sounds for Hope” benefit concert.
Karen has performed and been coached in master classes by renowned teacher, Robert Lipsett, and Utah Symphony Associate Concertmistress, Kathryn Eberle and has had master lessons with Daniel Ching and Sandy Yamamoto-founding members of the Miro String Quartet.
Together with her six siblings, Karen has been featured on concerts in the Box Elder County Tabernacle, the Salt Lake City Recital Hall, The LDS Assembly Hall, the BYU’s concert series and at numerous charity and political events, most notably providing musical entertainment at the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympic Games reception for dignitaries such as Mayor Rudy Guiliani and Vice-President, Dick Cheney.
Karen is a 7th grader at Promontory School of Expeditionary Learning in Perry, Utah. In addition to violin, Karen enjoys running, piano, tap, making hair bows and jewelry and visiting her married sisters. She is the daughter of Ben and Meg Ferry and lives in Corinne, Utah on their family-owned and operated farm and cattle ranch.
Karen has received nine superior ratings on violin and four on piano from the National Federation of Music Clubs. She has participated in the Intermountain Suzuki String Institute and Advanced String Camp for several years where she has been coached by Jenny Oaks Baker and members of the Fry Street Quartet of Utah State University. Karen is a member of the Rocky Mountain Strings, a group of 45 young violinists from along the Wasatch front with whom she concertized in Belgium and France the summer of 2011.
Karen is also a full-scholarship student of the Gifted Music School and a member of its orchestra directed by Eugene Watanabe. In 2012, as a member of the orchestra ,she accompanied Leon Fleisher as he performed the Mozart Piano Concerto #12, K414. Similarly, in April and May of this year, she will rehearse and perform with classical music commentator and pianist, Bill McLaughlin and Maestro Joseph Silverstein. In 2009 she was featured with the orchestra on Christopher O’Riley’s nationally acclaimed NPR program, “From the Top” and in 2012 on KBYU’s Route 89 classical music program. With the orchestra, she helped raise $40,000 for the Children’s Justice Center by performing on the 2010 “Sounds for Hope” benefit concert.
Karen has performed and been coached in master classes by renowned teacher, Robert Lipsett, and Utah Symphony Associate Concertmistress, Kathryn Eberle and has had master lessons with Daniel Ching and Sandy Yamamoto-founding members of the Miro String Quartet.
Together with her six siblings, Karen has been featured on concerts in the Box Elder County Tabernacle, the Salt Lake City Recital Hall, The LDS Assembly Hall, the BYU’s concert series and at numerous charity and political events, most notably providing musical entertainment at the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympic Games reception for dignitaries such as Mayor Rudy Guiliani and Vice-President, Dick Cheney.
Karen is a 7th grader at Promontory School of Expeditionary Learning in Perry, Utah. In addition to violin, Karen enjoys running, piano, tap, making hair bows and jewelry and visiting her married sisters. She is the daughter of Ben and Meg Ferry and lives in Corinne, Utah on their family-owned and operated farm and cattle ranch.