About Avery Morris:

Winner of a 2023-24 Czech Fulbright Award, Violinist Avery Morris is an innovative and multifaceted musician, whose most recent performances specialize in the works of Czech composer and Holocaust victim, Gideon Klein. Praised for her sensitivity and musicianship, Avery has been described as having “the ability to enchant the listener, purely with the integrity and mannerism-free approach of her interpretation” — Yehonatan Berick.

As a violinist, Avery has performed at Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall, the DiMenna Center, Colburn’s Zipper Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall, and internationally at Prague’s Rudolfinum, Martinu Hall, National Concert Hall in Warsaw, Slovak Radio Hall, Vienna Konzerthaus, Berlin Konzerthaus, and Canada’s National Arts Centre among others. Avery has appeared as a soloist with the Prague Academy Chamber Orchestra (KOA), The Orchestra Now (TŌN) at Bard College, Palisades Symphony, Crossroads Chamber Orchestra and her performances have been broadcasted on WQXR, KUSC and KCSN Radio.

As a chamber musician, she has performed with prominent musicians David Requiro, Meta Weiss, Clancy Newman, Tomáš Jamník, Josef Spaček, Ivo Kahánek, Eva Krestová and members of the Daedalus, Fibonacci, Isidore, Pavel Haas, Manhattan, and Avalon String Quartets. She has worked with composers Joan Tower, Paul Wiancko and Juri Seo.

A passionate educator, Avery has given lectures at Bard College Berlin, the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (HAMU) and Stony Brook University. Avery has been on the faculty of Ševčík Academy (Junior Academy) and held violin masterclasses in Cali, Colombia – through a mentorship project, she co-founded, which won a Davis Projects for Peace Prize.

Currently a Doctoral Candidate at Stony Brook University in New York, she studies with Jennifer Frautshi, Arnaud Sussmann, Hagai Shaham and Philip Setzer, and was a member of the Emerson String Quartet Institute for two years. She completed her M.Mus at the University of Ottawa as a student of Yehonatan Berick, and graduated from Bard Conservatory where she studied with Weigang Li of the Shanghai Quartet and Shmuel Ashkenasi.