John Ravnan
Adjunct Instructor of Viola
MM Peabody
BM Eastman School of Music
john.ravnan@converse.edu

Violist John Ravnan is well known for his solo and chamber music performances in the United States and Canada. A former member of the Atlanta Chamber Players and the Atlantic String Quartet, he has also collaborated with many distinguished ensembles including the Borodin Trio, Kandinsky Trio, Converse Trio, the Garth Newel Chamber Players, and the Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society. While in Atlanta, Mr. Ravnan premiered works by Pulitzer Prize winning composer John Harbison, and Anne LeBaron. His performances have been heard on National Public Radio's Performance Today, CBC Radio in Canada and in a live recital broadcast from the Phillips Collection in Washington DC. Solo performances include concertos with orchestras in the United States and Canada such as the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Greater Spartanburg Philharmonic, Brevard Chamber Orchestra and the East Carolina University String Orchestra. As an orchestral musician Mr. Ravnan has appeared with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and has served as Principal Violist of the Atlanta Opera, Savannah Symphony, Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra, and Banff Festival Opera.

Equally celebrated as a teacher, John Ravnan was recognized by Chamber Music America as one of the nation's leading chamber music educators and invited to participate in their first Educator/Ensemble conference. Mr. Ravnan has been a member of the viola panel at the American String Teachers Association's National Studio Teachers Forum at Indiana University. He taught at the Memorial University of Newfoundland and has presented master classes at the University of Memphis, Rhodes College, and East Carolina University. This past summer he taught viola and chamber music master classes at the Hindemith Music Centre in Switzerland, and at the North Carolina School of the Arts summer session. Mr. Ravnan currently teaches Strings Chamber Music at the Fine Arts Center, a public school for the arts in Greenville, South Carolina.

Mr. Ravnan holds degrees from Eastman School of Music and Peabody Conservatory of Music; his principal teachers have been Heidi Castleman, Karen Tuttle, and Sally Chisholm.