Richmond Times-Dispatch, March 20, 2000

Violinist serves audience feast for their ear

Lara St. John plays the violin with passion and technical flair.

Inevitably, the Bach [Chaconne in D mior] was the musical peak of the program. St. John played this most epic of solo-violin pieces with deep seriousness and deeply reasoned expressivity, with its formidable technical demands securely in hand and its arching musical argument securely in mind.