Lisa K. Ferguson, violin, pursued her studies at the Juilliard School, where she was a student of Masao Kawasaki and studied chamber music with the Juilliard String Quartet, and the Cleveland Institute of Music as a student of Donald Weilerstein. She attended the Aspen Music Festival, Tanglewood Music Center, the Banff Center for the Arts, Master Classes and Open Chamber Music at Prussia Cove, and master classes with Joseph Silverstein, Thomas Brandis, Lorand Fenyves, Louis Krasner, and Josef Gingold.

 Lisa enjoys a rich and varied performing career spanning the United States, Europe and Asia

As an active chamber orchestra player she has performed with such distinctive musicians as Claudio Abbado, Paavo Jarvi, Daniel Harding, Sir Georg Solti, Marc Minkowski, Alan Gilbert, Sir Simon Rattle and Sir Roger Norrington.  She also performs regularly with Accademia Bizantina (Italy), the Orchestra of St Luke’s (New York), the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie (Germany), Pulcinella Ensemble (France), and the Santa Fe Opera (USA). She has also performed with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the London Classical Players, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the London Mozart Players, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, and was third concertmaster of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and concertmaster of the Sarasota Opera Orchestra. She has been invited to lead orchestras  around the world, notably performing the violin solo of Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben with Sir Simon Rattle conducting.

 She has played recitals in the US, England and Taiwan. She was the recipient of a grant from the Frank Huntington Beebe Foundation and has also been awarded various awards such as the Gustav Golden Award.