Stacy Lesartre, Concertmaster

Stacy Lesartre has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the Rocky Mountain region. She has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra and was a member and soloist with the Houston Symphony. She has performed with Leonard Bernstein, Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Dylana Jenson, Stephanie Chase, Michael Morgan and Ravi Shankar. She is currently Concertmaster of the Cheyenne Symphony, Fort Collins Symphony, and the Larimer Chorale Orchestra. She performs regularly with Strings in the Mountains in Steamboat Springs. She was a finalist for the Concertmaster position of the Colorado Symphony and the Colorado Springs Symphony. She has been selected to perform at workshops for the concertmasters of Cleveland Orchestra and Boston Symphony. She has recorded at Skywalker Ranch for Warner Brothers Records. An active chamber music performer, she is performing a Beethoven string quartet cycle.

Ms. Lesartre has taught violin students, chamber music and orchestral excerpts in Houston and Fort Collins. Her students have become professional musicians, teachers, and competition winners. They have been accepted as music majors at the Eastman School of Music, Cincinatti Conservatory, Peabody Conservatory, Cleveland Institute, The University of Texas, the University of Houston, Lamont School of Music, and the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Stacy Lesartre lives in Fort Collins with her husband, Gregg, a technical contributer for Hewlett-Packard, and their two sons, Andre and Michael. They enjoy skiing in the winter and organic gardening in the summer.