Praised by the New York Times for her “spendid playing”, Natalie Rose Kress is a violinist based in Washington, DC. She appears on recent recordings with the Handel and Haydn Society and the English Concert and performs regularly with the Washington Bach Consort, Opera Lafayette, and her founding ensembles: Relic, Quartet Salonnières, and Musicivic Baroque. As a modern violinist she is featured on the premiere recording of Leonard Bernstein’s “Music for String Quartet” (1936), paired with Aaron Copland’s rarely performed “Elegies” for Violin and Viola, to be released by Parma Recordings this September. She performed the world premiere of this recently discovered quartet at the Tanglewood Music Center with members of the Boston Symphony in 2021.