When Lauren Schmidt, a double major in chemistry and music in the University of Virginia’s College of Arts & Sciences, is feeling a bit high strung, she tunes up and tunes in to her inner sense of calm. Since her first year at UVA, she has found release – and community – as a violinist with the Charlottesville Symphony, one of the few faculty-student-community member symphonies in the country.
“It’s definitely a great way to put aside all the chaos in my mind,” says Schmidt, whose slow and solemn solo performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Minor” is captured for posterity by UVA Today videographer Vinny Varsalona.
