Jon Luoma started playing viola as an adult, and has been a member of the MSO since the early 1990s.
He is interested in many kinds of music, and has played with jazz groups.
Jon is an artist/illustrator by profession. Many of the MSO posters of recent years feature his artwork.
The second, soulfully melodic, movement showed [Tessa Lark's] ability to make the violin sing, especially in the lower registers, and in the finale she came into her own entirely, with an up-beat tempo, world-class sound projection and near perfect rapport with the orchestra, especially the woodwinds.- MaineToday