The One-of-a-Kind Chamber Music Series event Keyed In on Sunday, Feb. 21 at 3 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center Recital Hall will feature former Minnesota Orchestra violinist Stephanie Arado, pianists Jae Won Kim and Mark Tollefsen, baritone Daniel Johnson-Wilmot, and soprano Diana Cataldi.

Violinist Stephanie Arado will perform for La Crosse chamber music lovers after an illustrious career that encompassed a wide range of performance and teaching experience. Arado played her first solo recital at the age of eight. She went on to debut with the Chicago Symphony as a 12 year old. She is a winner of several prestigious national awards including first place at both the Julius Stulberg and Irving M. Klein String Competitions, as well as a finalist at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

Arado has performed as a soloist with symphony orchestras throughout the U.S., including the Detroit, St. Louis, and Minnesota Orchestras. As a 21-year-old, Arado was the first American ever invited to play with the European Community Youth Orchestra led by Claudio Abbado and Leonard Bernstein. She was also invited to perform as a part of the prestigious chamber music festival Musiktreffen in St. Moritz, Switzerland, playing with esteemed chamber musicians Paul Tortelier and Yuri Bashmet.

Currently, Arado maintains a private studio. She has given master classes at numerous colleges and universities. During the 2013–14 academic year she served as violin professor at the Interlochen Arts Academy, the high school institution she graduated from in 1982.

Arado was born and raised in Chicago. She began playing the violin at the age of five using the Suzuki method with Sister Mary Ricardo of La Grange. She was fortunate to have worked with many fine violin pedagogues in her youth including Paul Rolland, Eugene Gratovich, and David Cerrone at the famous Meadowmount School. She spent five summers as a Fellowship Student at the Aspen Music School. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music at Western Illinois University studying with Almita and Roland Vamos, and completed a masters degree at Juilliard in New York City under the tutelage of Dorothy Delay and Paul Kantor.

Tickets can be purchased at the box office or online.