Krista Reisner, Violin

“Things done right..” (Boston Globe), “…Excellent left hand..” (Toronto Star), “…lovely tonal bloom…” (LeDROIT), and “..heartbreaking..” (Worcester Telegram & Gazette) are words that describe the performances of violinist Krista Buckland Reisner.

An artist of great diversity, she has toured across her native Canada as a recitalist, performed concertos in cities ranging from New York City to St. John’s, Newfoundland, toured internationally throughout Europe, Russia, and New Zealand, and has created multi-media works for herself involving dance and movement. Ms. Reisner’s love of working with singers led her to be Principal Second Violin of the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra for five years, perform Wagner’s “Ring Cycle” with the Arizona Opera, hold a position with the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, and act as Concertmaster of Opera Boston.

Viewing early music akin to new music, which she approaches as boundariless musical maps not mired in tradition, she has sought out period instrument work with Canada’s Aradia, was formerly the music librarian and a period violinist for Boston Baroque, is a tenured member of the Handel and Haydn Society period orchestra and recently began playing with Arcadia Players. Her involvement in new music includes winning the Eckhardt Gramatté Competition for New Music, serving as Principal Second Violin of Boston Modern Orchestra Project, premiering concertos written for her by Canadian composers and developing countless collaborative relationships with living U.S. composers like Charles Dodge, Yehudi Wyner, Theodore Antoniou, John MacDonald, Paul Moravec, Joseph Summer, Peter Child, Charles Shadle, Matthew Malsky, Mark Berger, and John Alyward, and their students at institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Clark University, Boston University, Tufts University, and Boston Conservatory of Music. As a chamber musician, Ms. Reisner is first violinist of the string quartet QX, which is in residence at Clark University in Worcester and has run the Thayer Chamber Music Festival in Lancaster, MA, for the past four years. She is also lead violinist of the Worcester Chamber Music Society and Alea III, a frequent player with Boston Musica Viva, and performs annually as part of the Shakespeare concerts, held in Jordan Hall, which mixes chamber musicians and vocalists with music both freshly written and classic, synergizing many of her passions. She can be heard on many recording labels including Naxos, Albany, Filharmonika, BMOPsound, Telarc and CBC.