Photo: Richard Termine for the New York Times

She’s appearing with the OSO this season, and by the sound of this review in the New York Times, you’d better score your tickets sooner than later, she’s red hot.

Here’s an excerpt from the review by Times writer Stephen Holden:

It is fascinating to watch the flickers at the corners of Ms. Kitt’s lips and eyes during these audience questionnaires. The peevish scowl of an arrogant siren who has been through this ritual a thousand times can suddenly turn into the cunning grin of a carnivore about to pounce on a juicy morsel of filet mignon.

Just picked this up off of Sheridan’s blog - too good to pass up. It really is viola playing in a nutshell - you watch and listen, waiting for the seemingly inevitable car wreck…

Sheridan, by the way, was a classmate of mine at the Peabody Conservatory, where she studied with BSO principal violist Richard Field, while I was in Roberto Dìaz’s studio. She’s now the principal violist of the Dayton Philharmonic.

BTW - lest there be a misunderstanding, the talented young woman below is not Sheridan, she’s an unidentified student at Oberlin College.