Lavinia Pavlish is a violinist whose dynamic career spans film, television, orchestral, and chamber music from New York City to Hawaii. As a winner of its young artist competition, Lavinia appeared as soloist with The Cleveland Orchestra in an education concert series entitled Time Travel with the Cleveland Orchestra. More recently, she performed Brahms Double Concerto alongside cellist Rose Bart with the Lake Tahoe Festival Orchestra.
As concertmaster of the Grammy Award-winning 8-bit Big Band, Lavinia has performed throughout the Northeast and recorded five albums with this versatile jazz orchestra. She is also a member of the fiery Rock Paper Scissors trio which performs regularly at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
As a recording artist, Lavinia has recorded a Grammy winning string quartet track with Madison Cunningham, played on the albums of Kanye West and Cynthia Erivo, and most recently has appeared as a solo violinist on the soundtrack of HBO’s hit TV show, Dexter Original Sin. She can also be heard as a solo violinist on the soundrack for the film, Westhampton, premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival this summer. As a chamber musician, she has recorded on the albums of 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.