Praised by the New York Times for her “splendid playing,” Natalie Rose Kress is a period violinist based in Washington, D.C.. Following three summers as a Tanglewood Fellow, she was awarded the Jules C. Reiner Violin Prize from the Tanglewood Music Center and performed with Yo-Yo Ma at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors, honoring Seiji Ozawa. Recent highlights include winning the 2022 English Concert in America Fellowship, the 2021 Mercury Chamber Orchestra Fellowship, as well as performing the World Premiere of Leonard Bernstein’s “Music for String Quartet” at The Tanglewood Music Center in 2021 with members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She can be heard on the premiere recording of Bernstein’s quartet paired with the rarely performed, "Elegies" for violin and viola by Aaron Copland, to be released this September by Parma Records. She performs as a core member of Quartet Salonnières, Relic Ensemble, Repast Baroque Ensemble, and Musicivic Baroque and is concertmaster of La Grande Bande. Natalie plays regularly with The Handel and Haydn Society, the Washington Bach Consort, The Washington National Cathedral Baroque Orchestra, The English Concert, Opera Lafayette, and the Staunton Music Festival. An alumni of Stony Brook University and The Juilliard School, she is currently a Doctorate student at the University of Maryland and lives with her husband, Jonathan Davies, and dog, Henry, in Greenbelt, MD.