A Pennsylvania native, Violinist Clara Lyon began studying violin at the age of three with her parents, who are both professional classical musicians. She graduated from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Glenn Dicterow, and received her master of music degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She currently is a Staller Fellow and a doctoral candidate at Stony Brook under the tutelage of Soovin Kim. At Stony Brook, Ms. Lyon was a teaching assistant for the Violin Studio and a winner of the Stony Brook Concerto Competition. 

As a soloist, Ms. Lyon has performed with many orchestras in her home state as well as the Festival de la Orquestra Sinfonica Juvenil de las Americas in Puerto Rico and the Viva-Vivaldi Orchestra at the Kennedy Center. She was a 2004 prizewinner of both the NFAA ARTS National Awards and the International Irving M. Klein Competition. Ms. Lyon has collaborated in performance with many of today’s leading musicians, including Lucy Shelton, Soovin Kim, Eugene Drucker, Kathy Murdock, Colin Carr, Kurt Muroki, William Purvis, Alan Kay, and Frank Morelli.  Devoted to the programming of works by living composers, Ms. Lyon frequently performs with the Argento New Music Project and has worked with the Axiom Ensemble and the Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players.