What guides all musicianship, at the heart, is the desire to communicate. My ultimate goal as an artist is to render a recognizable emotional experience for the audience and help them appreciate, respond to, and transform that experience into a sense of greater wholeness.

 With a multifaceted career as an orchestral player, recitalist, recording artist and chamber musician, NYC-based violist Nora Krohn believes that—for artists and audiences alike—music is vital in shaping our understanding of ourselves and our world. Following her full recovery from a three-year battle with Musician’s Focal Dystonia in 2021, she has retaken the stage with the aim of changing the narrative on this condition and championing the possibilities for healing and transformation.

Nora’s orchestral work has taken her to four continents and venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kimmel Center, and the Teatro Colón. She has served on the principal stand and in the section for numerous orchestras throughout the Northeast, including the Bridgeport, Ridgefield, Allentown, and Greenwich Symphonies, the Binghamton, Northeast Pennsylvania, and Hudson Valley Philharmonics, and Da Capo Opera. As Principal of the Balkan Chamber Orchestra she toured Japan twice, appearing live in concert and on national radio and television to promote peace and reconciliation through music.

Her numerous recording credits include collaborations with Phil Dizack and Declan O'Rourke, and commercial projects for Budweiser, Tiffany and Co, and Kenzo/H&M. In January 2018 she backed Coldplay frontman Chris Martin at Madison Square Garden in a CBS-broadcast Grammy tribute to Elton John. She can also be spotted in several episodes of Amazon's web series "Mozart in the Jungle”!

An emerging recitalist with a passion for imaginative programming and engaging spoken commentary, Nora has performed on numerous concert series throughout the US and Canada. In October 2011 she was featured as a soloist in Paul Hindemith's Trauermusik with the Chelsea Symphony.

Nora graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University, where she earned a BA in Music and Spanish Literature and was the recipient of the Buxtehude and Muriel Hassenfeld Mann Premiums in Music. She received her MM in Viola Performance from SUNY Purchase College, where she studied with Ira Weller.