Bigfork teen violinist sets off to study in Paris this summer

By Linda Collins

Special to the Daily Inter Lake

Violinist Lauren Welch, a 14-year-old Bigfork native, was recently accepted to attend a two-week summer course at the world-renowned Paris Conservatory of Music in France. Together with 20 other students from Japan, Australia, France, the Czech Republic and other countries, Welch will fly to Paris July 30 for an intensive two-week course of study. Welch will perform in master classes for Jérôme Pernoo, a professor at the Paris Conservatory and international performer who has played at Carnegie Hall in New York, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, and the Seoul Art Center...