Prof. Kevin Lawrence - Chair of the String Department at the North Carolina School of the Arts
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. He served as Killington's Artistic Director from 1997 through 2004, when he founded the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Burlington, Vermont, called "the newest jewel in our musical crown" by The Vermont Times. Lawrence has given master classes throughout the United States, and in Germany, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Romania, Russia and Venezuela. He is the chair of the string department at the North Carolina School of the Arts, which recognized him with its Excellence in Teaching Award in 2007.
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