Avery Morris

Winner of a 2023-24 Czech Fulbright Award, Violinist Avery Morris is an innovative and multifaceted musician, whose most recent performances specialize in the works of Czech composer and Holocaust victim, Gideon Klein. Praised for her sensitivity and musicianship, Avery has been described as having "the ability to enchant the listener, purely with the integrity and mannerism-free approach of her interpretation" -Yehonatan Berick. Her Fulbright project entitled “Gideon Klein’s Lost Works and the Legacy of Czech Musical Modernism” focused on transcriptions of Klein’s pre-Terezín compositions, specifically his solo violin pieces which she is currently preparing for performance and publication. 

As a violinist, Avery has performed at Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall, the DiMenna Center, Colburn’s Zipper Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall, and internationally at Prague’s Rudolfinum, Martinu Hall, National Concert Hall in Warsaw, Slovak Radio Hall, Vienna Konzerthaus, Berlin Konzerthaus, and Canada's National Arts Centre among others. 

Avery has appeared as a soloist with the Prague Academy Chamber Orchestra (KOA), The Orchestra Now (TŌN) at Bard College, Palisades Symphony, Crossroads Chamber Orchestra and her performances have been broadcasted on WQXR, KUSC and KCSN Radio. In their upcoming 2026-27 season, she will be joining the Prague Academy Chamber Orchestra (KOA) again for a performance of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto.

As a chamber musician, she has performed with prominent musicians David Requiro, Meta Weiss, Clancy Newman, Tomáš Jamník, Josef Spaček, Ivo Kahánek, Eva Krestová and members of the Daedalus, Fibonacci, Isidore, Pavel Haas, Manhattan, and Avalon String Quartets. She has worked with composers Joan Tower, Paul Wiancko and Juri Seo. Recent collaborative highlights include a 2025 video recording of Gideon Klein’s Quarter Tone Duo for Violin and Viola, produced by Czellor Films with Czech Philharmonic principal violist Eva Krestová and recorded in the former Klein family residence in Prague, alongside my peer-reviewed article on the work, published in the music journal Živá Hudba.

A passionate educator, Avery has given lectures at Bard College Berlin, the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (HAMU) and Stony Brook University. Avery has been on the faculty of Ševčík Academy (Junior Academy) and held violin masterclasses in Cali, Colombia, through a mentorship project she co-founded, which won a Davis Projects for Peace Prize. Featured in PBS documentary, “Arts and the Mind” about music education, Avery sees her role as a teacher, as facilitating a community of expanded listening while also amplifying voices that need to be heard. Her passion for teaching stems from a strong ability to problem solve, appreciating and adjusting to the qualities that make each student unique; Offering a different and often multidisciplinary lens for each student.