Kenneth Law
Associate Professor of Violoncello
BM, Eastman School of Music
MM, Cleveland Institute of Music
GPD, Peabody Conservatory
Chamber Music Fellow, The Juilliard School
kenneth.law@converse.edu
864-596-9003
Blackman Music Hall, Room103

Kenneth Law is Associate Professor of Violoncello at the Petrie School of Music of Converse College in Sparanburg, South Carolina. In addition to his participation in the Converse Trio, he is a member of of the Jacksonville (FL)-based Ritz Chamber Players, and principal cellist of the Spartanburg Philharmonic Orchestra. He is a past president of the South Carolina Chapter of the American String Teachers Association, and is a founding member of the Harlaxton International Chamber Music Festival in England.  Mr. Law has appeared nationally as soloist and recitalist, and chamber music performances include appearances at the German Embassy in Washington, D.C., the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jazz at Lincoln Center Concert Series, and Alice Tully Hall in New York City. Mr. Law has also performed in England, France, Scotland, Panama and Puerto Rico as a member of the Converse Trio. 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), Diane Monroe, and the late Samuel Baron, and has recorded orchestral and chamber music for the New Albion and Telarc labels. In March of 2006, Mr. Law was featured on the nationally televised NAACP Image Awards as a member of the Ritz Chamber Players.  Mr. Law will give his first performance at the Piccolo Spoleto Music Festival as a member of the Converse Trio in the spring of 2008.

Mr. Law is in his 12th year of service to the Petrie School of Music, and is steadily increasing his reputation as a pedagogue.  His pre-college students have been accepted to such institutions as the Peabody Conservatory, the Oberlin College Conservatory, and Cleveland Institute of Music, as well as several respected schools of music in the southeast.  In addition to serving on the faculty of the Petrie School of Music, Mr. Law also serves on the summer faculties of the North Carolina School of the Arts, and the Animato! Summer Chamber Music Institute in Miami, Florida.

Mr. Law received undergraduate and graduate degrees in performance from the Eastman School of Music and Cleveland Institute of Music where his primary teachers were Paul Katz and Alan Harris, and a Graduate Performance Diploma from the Peabody Conservatory as a student of Stephen Kates.  He also served as a chamber music fellow at the Juilliard School.