Natalie Loughran, viola

American violist Natalie Loughran is quickly establishing herself as one of the most versatile young artists of her generation. She was awarded First Prize at the 2021 Primrose International Viola Competition, along with the Audience Award and the BIPOC Composer Prize, the latter for her arrangement and performance of William Grant Still’s “Mother and Child.” She has also received the William Schuman Prize from the Juilliard School in recognition of outstanding leadership and achievement in music.

As the former violist of the Castalian String Quartet, Ms. Loughran appeared in renowned chamber music series including Konzerthaus Berlin, Wigmore Hall, 92nd Street Y, San Francisco Performances, and the Lockenhaus Festival, with the quartet in residence at Wigmore Hall and Oxford University. She is currently violist of the Adler Quartet, leading a schools outreach project in Oxford. She has performed extensively at Marlboro, Yellow Barn, and Kronberg’s Chamber Music Connects the World, and has collaborated with musicians including Mitsuko Uchida, Itzhak Perlman, Gidon Kremer, Christian Tetzlaff, and Tabea Zimmermann.

Alongside chamber music, Ms. Loughran has a deep love for orchestral playing. She has performed with the New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, and frequently appears as Guest Principal of the London Symphony Orchestra.

Natalie Loughran earned her B.M. and M.M. in Viola Performance at the Juilliard School under the tutelage of Roger Tapping and Misha Amory, where she was a proud recipient of the Kovner Fellowship. She completed her professional studies in 2025 at the Kronberg Academy with Tabea Zimmermann.

Ms. Loughran plays on a 1976 viola by Sergio Peresson.