Sarah Johnson, a gifted child performer, made her debut with the Minneapolis Symphony at the age of ten. In addition to her international and regional touring, Ms. Johnson also served for nearly a decade as founder and director of the critically-acclaimed and very popular “Sarah Johnson & Friends” chamber music series at the Dock Street Theatre in Charleston, SC.  She made her European debut at the Spoleto Festival in Italy at the personal invitation of Gian-Carlo Menotti following her performance of his violin concerto, a performance which was featured on the CBS Morning News. In 1981 she was the first recipient of the South Carolina Performing Artist Fellowship.

A former member of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and a founding member of the South Carolina Chamber Orchestra, Ms. Johnson is a graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where she studied with Ivan Galamian, Jaime Laredo and members of the Guarneri Quartet.

Kenneth Law is Associate Professor of Violoncello at the Petrie School of Music of Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. In addition to his participation in the Converse Trio, he is a member of the Jacksonville (FL)-based Ritz Chamber Players, and principal cellist of the Spartanburg Philharmonic Orchestra. He is also a past president of the South Carolina Chapter of the American String Teachers Association.  During the summers, Mr. Law serves on the artist faculty of the North Carolina School of the Arts Summer Music Festival.

In addition to being an active recitalist and soloist, Mr. Law’s 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. In 2006, he was featured in the nationally televised NAACP Image Awards as a member of the Ritz Chamber Players.  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 RCA Victor labels.

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

Douglas Weeks is the Chair of Performance and Babcock Professor of Piano. During the summers, he coordinates Piano Studies at the Brevard Music Festival in the NC mountains. He has performed throughout the Southeastern US both as soloist and as a member of the Converse Trio. He has also performed and taught in twelve countries in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia under sponsorship of the US Information Agency.

A prize winner in the Robert Casadesus International Piano Competition, Dr. Weeks competed in the VI International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. He is a National Patron of Delta Omicron Music Honorary Fraternity and a two-time recipient of the SC Arts Commission's Artist Fellowship in Music. He has been awarded the Kathryne Amelia Brown Award at Converse College for excellence in teaching and a SC Commission on Higher Education's Distinguished Professor Award. His articles have appeared in Clavier and in the on-line journal, Piano Pedagogy Forum.  

Douglas Weeks holds a B.M. from Illinois State University, a M.M., with a Performer's Certificate, from Indiana University, a D.M. from Florida State University, and a License de Concert from the Ecole Normale de Musique, Paris, France. His teachers include Abbey Simon, Jack Radunsky, Edward Kilenyi, Tong Il Han, Rosina Lhevinne, and Maria Curcio Diamand.