Biography

Tessa Seymour, age 14, is a resident of Berkeley and a scholarship student of Jean-Michel Fonteneau in the Preparatory Division at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She is a member of the Luna Trio, who performed on From the Tops Radio Show in 2004. She has also performed at Carnegie Hall on From the Tops television series which aired on PBS in Spring 2007.

Tessa performed at the Beijing Conservatory of Music in China and has appeared as concerto soloist with the Stockton Chamber Orchestra, the Modesto Symphony, and the Prometheus Symphony Orchestra. Last year, she was a recipient of the Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award.

Additionally, Tessa has received first prizes in the American String Teachers Association (ASTA) Competition, Felix Khuner Concerto Competition, Pacific Musical Society Competition, and the Stewart Brady Competition. She recently performed at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium for His Holiness, The Dalai Lama.

Along with being a member of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, Tessa recently won their 2007 Concerto Competition.

Repertoire

Orchestra Works

Overture to La Gazza Ladra ~ Rossini
Forest Murmurs from Siegfried ~ Wagner
Siegfried's Rhine Journe from Gotterdammerung ~ Wagner
Siegfred'sDeath and Funeral Music from Gotterdamerung ~ Wagner
La Forza del Destino, Overture ~ Verdi
Symphony No.6 in b minor, op. 74, “Pathetique” ~ Tchaikovsky
Divertimento for Strings ~ Bartók
Shakerloops ~ John Adams
Suite for Strings in the Olden Style, op.40 ~ Grieg
Eight Instrumental Miniatures ~ Stravinsky
Leonore Overture No. 3 ~ Beethoven
Tournaments ~ John Corigliano
Symphonic Dances ~ Rachmaninoff
Ragtime (Well -Tempered) ~ Hindemith
Invitation to the Dance ~ Weber-Berlioz
Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Weber ~ Hindemith
Symphony No. 7 ~ Dvorák
Symphony No. 103 Drumroll ~ Hayden
Piano Concerto No. 3 ~ Bartók
Gigues ~ Debussy
La Mer ~ Debussy
Overture to the Flying Dutchman ~ Wagner
Symphony No. 1, op. 10 ~ Shostakovich
The Enchanted Lake ~ Liadov
Peter and the Wolf ~ Prokoviev


Opera/Theater Works

Messiah ~ Handel
Don Giovanni ~ Mozart
Cavalleria Rusticana ~ Mascagni
Fanny ~ Harold Jacob Rome
Tosca ~ Puccini
Un Ballo in Maschera ~ Verdi
Daughter of the Regiment ~ Donizetti
The Scarlet Pimpernel ~ Knighton and Wildhorn

Chamber Music

Sextet - "Souvenir de Florence" ~ Tchaikovsky
Schubert Cello Quintet ~ Schubert
Piano Trio, Op.70, No.1 "Ghost"~ Beethoven
Piano Trio in c minor, Op.66 ~ Mendelssohn
“ Dumky” Piano Trio, op.90, no.6, in e minor ~ Dvorák
Quartet in F Major, op. 18, No.1 ~ Beethoven
Piano Trio in c minor, op.1, No.3 ~ Beethoven
Octet for Strings, op.20 ~ Mendelssohn
Sextet op.18, No.1, in Bb Major ~ Brahms
Piano Quintet in f minor, op.34 ~ Brahms
Piano Quartet in g minor ~ Brahms
Piano Trio in G Major, op.1 , No.2 ~ Beethoven
Fantasiestucke Piano Trio, op.88 ~ Schumann
Piano Trio in d minor, op.49 ~ Mendelssohn
Piano Trio in c minor~ op.1., No.3 ~ Beethoven
String Quintet in g minor ~ Mozart
"The Carnival" Piano Trio ~ Bonacich
Viola Quintet in g minor ~ Mozart
Piano Trio No.2 in e minor ~ Shostakovich

Cello Solo Works

Concerto in a minor ~ Schumann
Suite V for Unaccompanied Violoncello ~ Bach
Dance of the Elves ~ Popper
Sonata in C Major ~ Beethoven
Hungarian Rhapsody, Op.68 ~ Popper
Sonata in e minor, Op.38 ~ Brahms
Bb Major Concerto ~ Boccherini
E minor Concerto ~ Elgar
A minor Concerto ~ Saint-Saens
Concerto ~ J.C. Bach
Sonata in d minor ~ Debussy
“Variations on a Rococo Theme” op.33 ~ Tchaikovsky
Suites for Unaccompanied Cello ~ Bach
C Major Concerto ~ Haydn
Sonata, opus 6 ~ Barber
Sonata, opus 40 ~ Shostakovich
Elegie ~ Faure
Schelomo, Hebrew Rhapsody for violoncello and Grand orchestra ~ Bloch

Piano

Valse in e minor, Posthumous ~ Chopin
Prole de Bebe Suite: O Polichinelo, The Porcelain Doll ~ Villa-Lobos
Waltz in Db Major, op.64, No.1 ~ Chopin
French Suite IV ~ Bach
Sonata in C Major, K279 ~ Mozart
Dance of the Gnomes, gnomenreigen ~ Liszt
24 Preludes for Piano, *Prelude 16* ~ Roger Nixon:
Sonata in C Major, K279 ~ Mozart
French Suite IV, BWV 815 ~ Bach
     *Allemande*
     *Gigue*
Etude in f minor, op.25, No.2 ~ Chopin
La Plus Que Lente (The More than Slow) ~ Debussy
Fantasie Impromptu, op.66 ~ Chopin
Valse Romantique ~ Debussy
English Suite II, BWV 807 ~ Bach