Carol Cook, the newly appointed principal violist of the Chicago
Lyric Opera, performed the US
national anthem at her own citizenship ceremony on Monday 22 July.
The Scottish-born Cook was one of more than 140 people from 53
countries who were naturalised as US citizens at the ceremony in
Chicago.
According to the
Chicago Tribune, the immigration officer who first interviewed
Cook after she applied for citizenship gave Cook the idea of
playing The Star-Spangled Banner at the ceremony.
Cook was a student of David Takeno at London's Guildhall School of
Music and Drama before coming to the US to study at the Oberlin
Conservatory of Music and the Juilliard School. Alongside
orchestral work, Cook has been active as a fiddler, and performed
in the Appalachia Waltz Trio with Mark O'Connor and Natalie
Haas.
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