Natalie Loughran, viola
25-year-old American violist Natalie Loughran is quickly establishing herself as one of the most versatile young artists of our time. Natalie was awarded First Prize at the 2021 Primrose International Viola Competition along with the Audience Award, as well as the BIPOC Composer Prize for her arrangement and performance of William Grant Still’s Mother and Child. She has also appeared as a finalist for the 2020 Young Concert Artist Auditions, and was awarded a special prize for her performance of the Bowen Viola Sonata in C minor at the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition. Ms. Loughran also was awarded the William Schuman prize for her outstanding leadership and achievement in music from the Juilliard School.
A former member of the Kila Quartet, Ms. Loughran is a sensitive and passionate chamber musician. She has appeared on WQXR’s series Midday Masterpieces, and has performed extensively at Marlboro, Yellow Barn, Perlman Music Program’s Chamber Music Workshop, Robert Mann String Quartet Institute, and Kronberg’s Chamber Music Connects the World.
Natalie Loughran has collaborated with renowned chamber musicians such as Itzhak Perlman, Gidon Kremer, Christian Tetzlaff, Tabea Zimmermann, and Nobuko Imai. She earned her BM and MM in Viola Performance at the Juilliard School, under the tutelage of Roger Tapping, Misha Amory, and Hsin-Yun Huang, where she was a proud recipient of the Kovner Fellowship. In the fall of 2022, Ms. Loughran continued her professional studies at the Kronberg Academy with Tabea Zimmermann.
Ms. Loughran plays on a 1976 viola by Sergio Peresson.