St. Petersburg Times, May 10, 2003

Lara St. John is a natural-born soloist, and her performance of the Prokofiev Second Violin Concerto was the highlight of Friday night&Mac226;s concert by the Florida Orchestra.

St. John, a Junoesque six-footer, is a tempestuous stage presence, moving around a lot and tossing her long blond hair, but she has rock-solid technique, such as the superb intonation she displayed in some passages in the first movement that were extremely testing in that regard.

[...] The rapid passagework near the close is marked tumultuoso, and St. John dashed through it with great elan.