Tanner Menees is a sought-after violist in chamber music recognized for both his technical mastery and his rich, inventive style. He has performed at The Marlboro Music Festival, Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, Caramoor Evnin Rising Stars, Chamberfest Cleveland, and many others. Tanner has collaborated with such artists as Miriam Fried, Lynn Harrell, Kim Kashkashian, Mitsuko Uchida, and Donald Weilerstein, and he has appeared as soloist with the Colburn Orchestra under maestro Thierry Fischer. As an assiduous advocate of new American music, Tanner regularly performs and records with Copland House, where he has participated in the introduction of electrifying new works including A Standing Witness, by composer Richard Danielpour and U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove. Tanner studied at the Colburn School and New England Conservatory. He plays on a viola of the Tarasconi school made in Milan, Italy c. 1880 courtesy of Guarneri Hall NFP and Darnton & Hersh Fine Violins.