KEVIN LAWRENCE
Guest Artist-Faculty, violin University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Praised for his "vibrant intensity," (The Times, London) and playing "supremely convincing in its vitality," (Cleveland Plain Dealer) violinist Kevin Lawrence has consistently elicited superlative responses for his performances throughout the United States and Europe: at Merkin Hall, Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and in Houston, Chicago, London, Frankfurt, Leipzig, Rome, Prague, Bucharest, Sofia, St. Petersburg, and Amsterdam, where the Dutch press described him as "simply miraculous." (Het Vaderland).
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Lawrence has premiered sonatas by contemporary American compositional voices Laura Kaminsky, Judith Shatin and Lawrence Dillon, and chamber works by Michael Rothkopf and Evan Chambers. His release of the complete violin works of the American composer Arthur Foote on the New World label was "highly recommended" as "beautifully played" by the Washington Post, and heard on the Ken Burns series “Not for Ourselves Alone” on PBS; his second CD of American violin sonatas, released by New World, was hailed as “vital playing” and “a labor of love” by ClassicsToday.com. He is also heard with renowned flutist Carol Wincenc on a recording of American flute quintets released by Bridge Records, and named as Critics Choice by American Record Guide.
Since 1990 Lawrence has taught at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where he currently serves as chair of the string department, and which recognized him with its Excellence in Teaching Award in 2007. He has given master classes throughout the United States, and in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Romania, Russia, Canada, Israel, Venezuela, Costa Rica, China, Thailand and Korea. His summer students have won positions in the Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony and Leipzig Gewandhaus. His long term students have won principal positions in Switzerland (Sankt Gallen) and Germany (Weimar), as well as in the Virginia Symphony, Arkansas Symphony, Tulsa Symphony and Chattanooga Symphony, while others perform in orchestras ranging from St. Luke's in New York City, to the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Costa Rica and Entschede in the Netherlands, or hold teaching positions at the University of Northern Colorado, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, University of South Florida, Vanderbilt University, and at music schools in Spain and in Germany. One is active in the central European early music scene, performing regularly with Hof-Musici, Dresdner Instrumental Concert and Cammermusik Potsdam. Another student, originally from Venezuela, is now the first violinist in the Brazilian Quarteto Radames Gnattali, which was awarded a Grammy nomination in 2012.
Kevin Lawrence received his musical education at The Juilliard School as a scholarship student of Ivan Galamian and Margaret Pardee. While at Juilliard he also studied chamber music with Felix Galimir and continued his chamber music study with Josef Gingold at the Meadowmount School in Westport, New York. Appointed to the Meadowmount faculty by Ivan Galamian in 1980, he taught there each summer until 1994, when he became the Dean of the Killington Music Festival in Vermont. After serving as Killington's Artistic Director from 1997 through 2004, he founded the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival (www.gmcmf.org), which will hold its fourteenth season in Burlington, Vermont during the summer of 2018.
Since 1990 Lawrence has taught at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where he currently serves as chair of the string department, and which recognized him with its Excellence in Teaching Award in 2007. He has given master classes throughout the United States, and in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Romania, Russia, Canada, Israel, Venezuela, Costa Rica, China, Thailand and Korea. His summer students have won positions in the Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony and Leipzig Gewandhaus. His long term students have won principal positions in Switzerland (Sankt Gallen) and Germany (Weimar), as well as in the Virginia Symphony, Arkansas Symphony, Tulsa Symphony and Chattanooga Symphony, while others perform in orchestras ranging from St. Luke's in New York City, to the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Costa Rica and Entschede in the Netherlands, or hold teaching positions at the University of Northern Colorado, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, University of South Florida, Vanderbilt University, and at music schools in Spain and in Germany. One is active in the central European early music scene, performing regularly with Hof-Musici, Dresdner Instrumental Concert and Cammermusik Potsdam. Another student, originally from Venezuela, is now the first violinist in the Brazilian Quarteto Radames Gnattali, which was awarded a Grammy nomination in 2012.
Kevin Lawrence received his musical education at The Juilliard School as a scholarship student of Ivan Galamian and Margaret Pardee. While at Juilliard he also studied chamber music with Felix Galimir and continued his chamber music study with Josef Gingold at the Meadowmount School in Westport, New York. Appointed to the Meadowmount faculty by Ivan Galamian in 1980, he taught there each summer until 1994, when he became the Dean of the Killington Music Festival in Vermont. After serving as Killington's Artistic Director from 1997 through 2004, he founded the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival (www.gmcmf.org), which will hold its fourteenth season in Burlington, Vermont during the summer of 2018.