Praised by The New York Times for her “splendid playing,” Natalie Rose Kress is a New York-based baroque and modern violinist. A core member of Repast Baroque, she also performs with her touring ensembles Relic Ensemble and Quartet Salonnières, and has appeared with the Handel and Haydn Society, Nosky Baroque Band, The Thirteen, Opera Lafayette, the Smithsonian Chamber Music Society, Washington Bach Consort, The English Consort, Les Arts Florissants, Charlotte Bach Festival, Staunton Music Festival, and the Carmel Bach Festival. A recipient of the Jules C. Reiner Violin Prize from the Tanglewood Music Center and the English Concert in America Fellowship through the Juilliard School, she performed with Yo-Yo Ma at the Kennedy Center Honors celebrating Seiji Ozawa and gave the world premiere of Leonard Bernstein’s Music for String Quartet at the Linde Center at Tanglewood with members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She can also be heard on the first commercial recording of Bernstein’s Music for String Quartet, released by Parma Recordings in 2023. An alumna of the Juilliard School’s Historical Performance program (Graduate Diploma) and Stony Brook University (B.A., M.M.), she is currently pursuing a doctorate at the University of Maryland with a focus on historical performance pedagogy. In addition to her performing career, Kress serves as Administrative Director of Pegasus Early Music and NYS Baroque, supporting early music performance and education throughout the Finger Lakes, Central New York, and Western New York.