KAREN CLARKE, Professor of Violin, has appeared as soloist with the Buffalo Philharmonic, the North Carolina Symphony, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, the FSU Chamber Orchestra, the Tallahassee Symphony, and orchestras throughout Florida. A former member of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, she has served as concertmaster of the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra under the baton of Leonard Bernstein, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, and the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra. She has performed and recorded with the Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra, the Apollo Ensemble, and the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra.

As a founding member of the Rogeri Trio, Ms. Clarke performed throughout the United States and held a residency at Yale University. She maintains a versatile performing career, equally at home as a recitalist, soloist, chamber musician, orchestral player, and period-instrument violinist. Appointed to the FSU faculty in 1980, she received the Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the Peabody Conservatory. Additional study of baroque violin took place in London.

Clarke's students have been finalists in solo and chamber competitions at the national level and hold positions in symphony orchestras and in university teaching in the U.S. and abroad. A native of Boise, Idaho, her teachers have included Joseph Silverstein, Robert Gerle and Donald Weilerstein.