Cello
Kenneth Law
A native of Columbia, SC, Cellist Kenneth Law enjoys a diverse career as performer, teacher and author. He is a member of the Main Street Chamber Players, Davenport Chamber Players, Cirrus Ensemble and cellist with the Colour of Music Festival. Mr. Law has performed abroad as soloist and recitalist. Chamber music performances include appearances at the Washington Performing Arts, the German and Italian Embassies, the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater, and the Library of Congress in Washington DC, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jazz at Lincoln Center Concert Series, Alice Tully Hall, and Carnegie Hall in New York City. Mr. Law has also performed in England, France, Scotland, Panama and Puerto Rico. He has collaborated with such artists as Earl Carlyss (Juilliard String Quartet), Michael Tree (Guarneri Quartet), Ying String Quartet, Norman Carroll (concertmaster emeritus, Philadelphia Orchestra), and violinist Diane Monroe, and has recorded orchestral and chamber music for Albany Records, and the New Albion and Telarc Labels. Mr. Law gave his first performance at the Piccolo Spoleto Music Festival in Charleston, SC, as a member of the Converse Trio and subsequently as a member of Ensemble Argos, Polaris Piano Trio, Charleston Baroque and the Colour of Music Festival.
Mr. Law currently maintains a large private studio in Fairfax, VA, where his students have been accepted into the Peabody and Oberlin Conservatories, Cleveland Institute of Music, Indiana University (Bloomington), Florida State University, Cincinnati College-Conservatory, Catholic University, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and other respected schools of music throughout the southeast. Prior to his move to Fairfax, he served on the Faculty of the Petrie School of Music at Converse College in Spartanburg, SC. During his 15 years at the Petrie School, he served as Associate Professor of Violoncello, Chair of the Performance Department, Chair of the Music Curriculum Committee, and Assistant Dean. He is a past president of the South Carolina Chapter of the American String Teachers Association and received the 2010 Studio Teacher of the Year Award from this organization. He recently received the 2017 Outstanding String Teacher of the Year Award from the Virginia String Teachers Association as well.
Along with co-author Dr. Christina Placilla, the publication, We Are the Music Makers: Volume I: A Graded Guide to Chamber Music-String Quartets was published in 2013 and is the first in a multi-volume set that will cover the myriad combinations of chamber music. The guide serves as a resource for chamber music coaches when needing to assign appropriate and challenging repertoire to ensembles whose individual members are of varying levels of proficiency.
Mr. Law received undergraduate and graduate degrees and diplomas from the Eastman School of Music and Cleveland Institute of Music where his primary teachers were Paul Katz and Alan Harris, and the Peabody Conservatory where he studied cello with Stephen Kates and chamber music with Earl Carlyss. He was also a chamber music fellow at The Juilliard School. For several summers, Mr. Law was a participant in the Aspen Music Festival’s Center for Advanced Quartet Studies, and was coached by the Cleveland, American, Muir, Cavani, Orion and Emerson String Quartets. As a participant in the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, he was coached by by the Tokyo Quartet, Claude Frank, Aldo Parisot Gyorgy Pauk, and Nobuko Imai. During the summer Mr. Law has served on the faculties of the Summit Music Festival, Five Seasons Chamber Music Festival in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and New England Music Camp in Maine.
Personal website: https://www.kennethlawcello.com/
Contact Mr. Law: kenlawcello@gmail.com