Lisa Brooke has received reviews on various concerto performances, stating: "...perhaps the most rewarding offering on the program"...Brooke "negotiated ticklish passagework without slighting the works lyricism" and has been praised for her "..unusually intelligent and sensitive musical ideas.." In NYC, she performed with the New York Collegium, Concert Royal, Rebel Baroque Orchestra and Amor Artis, and the American Classical Orchestra, in the summers attended the Carmel Bach Festival, and currently plays with The Handel and Haydn Society and the Boston Cecilia. Founding member of Très., she has performed as concertmaster and soloist with Tempesta Di Mare (receiving very fine reviews from the Philadelphia Inquirer), and is a member of Foundling Baroque Orchestra and women's advocacy project, with whom she has also appeared as soloist with critical accolades. Last season, she performed a number of Concerti with Newton Baroque, including the Piccolo solo to Brandenburg I, and live on WGBH radio. Concertmaster positions include The Publick Musick in Rochester, NY, BachWorks in NYC, the Concord Chorale, and Millenial Artists. She has worked with the Musicians of the Old Post Rd. and La Donna Musicale. Ms Brooke has given guest lectures/demonstrations at Columbia University on the role of the violin in French Baroque music. She has attended the Longy and the Amherst Early Music Festivals.

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Lisa Brooke performed in NYC with the Orchestra of Saint Lukes', the NY Pops, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the American Symphony Orchestra and the American Composer's Orchestra, and has toured the US, Spain, Japan, Korea and Hong Kong with numerous ensembles. Concertmaster posts include Liza Minnelli's "Minnelli on Minnelli" (Broadway run + CD). In the popular music genre, her work includes the New York Pops, concerts and CD with Barbra Streisand ("The Concert Tour"), much studio session work, and performances with Chuck Mangione and Charles Aznavour (principal 2nd). In Boston, she has worked with the Boston Ballet Orchestra, the Boston Lyric Opera, Emmanuel Music, the New England String Ensemble, the Landmarks Orch. and the Boston Classical Orch. and with the Back Bay Chorale as principal 2nd, and Coro Allegro as principal 2nd. Lisa is concertmaster for the New England Classical Singers, (David Hodgekins), where she has performed the Bach Double concerto, and has been concertmaster also for a Jethro Tull concert and Mannheim Steam Roller at the Boston Pavillion and the Garden respectively. Ms. Brooke has recorded with Orchestras for Deutsche Grammophon, Sony, Nonesuch, and Telarc, and recorded a world premiere of a septet for Opus 1.

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