Lavinia Pavlish is a New York City-based violinist. She has performed as a soloist with The Cleveland Orchestra in an morning education concert series entitled Time Travel with the Cleveland Orchestra and also more recently performed Brahms Double Concerto alongside cellist Rose Bart with the Lake Tahoe Festival Orchestra at the Lake Tahoe Music Festival.
Lavinia is currently a member of Rock Paper Scissors, a trio which performs monthly at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has also performed at the Met Museum as a substitute member of ETHEL string quartet, and with other duo groups including Hot Chicken Duo with violinist Eli Bishop. She also performs on occasion with amazing organist Jared Lamenzo at the Basilica of Old St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York.
As an orchestral musician, Lavinia served as assistant concertmaster of the Juilliard Orchestra and has performed with various orchestras around New York including Riverside Symphony, Wordless Orchestra, and Radio City Christmas Spectacular. She is the concertmaster of Charlie Rosen's Grammy Award winning 8-bit Big Band with performances in New York, Washington D.C., and Boston.
As a chamber musician, she has recorded on the albums of Kanye West, Madison Cunningham, Mark Dover, Bryan Carter, Charlie Rosen, Lauren Henderson, Eddie Barbash, Mike Thurber, and many others. She performs regularly with brilliant artist and opera singer Joseph Keckler in New York, Philadelphia, and Seattle, and accompanied him on his NPR Tiny Desk performance in 2021.
Lavinia studied with Paul Kantor in the Cleveland Institute of Music preparatory program and continued her studies as an undergraduate student of Almita Vamos at Northwestern University. She completed her Masters Degree at Juilliard with Naoko Tanaka.
Lavinia enjoys gardening, surfing, and listening to every kind of music, especially opera and jazz.