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| Hailed in the New York Times for "impassioned" playing and "clear articulation and unity of purpose," violinist Kate Ransom is a distinguished chamber musician, recitalist, and teacher. Founding violinist of the Serafin Quartet, she debuted as recitalist and as with the Alexander String Quartet in performances at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, both to critical acclaim. With the Alexanders, she received first prize and audience prize at the London String Quartet Competition (1985) and toured internationally. She has collaborated with artists William Preucil, Charles Abramovic, Steven Tenebom, Sadao Harada, Eliot Fisk, Sandra Rivers and James Tocco. She performed the complete sonatas of Beethoven in 2010 and the complete sonatas of Brahms in 2012 in locations around the nation. Ms. Ransom has served on the faculties of the University of Delaware, Brevard College and Lehigh University; she has also held Ensemble in Residence positions at University of Delaware, St. Lawrence University, SUNY-Potsdam, Lehigh University and Brevard College. She pursued post-graduate chamber music study at The Juilliard School with Robert Mann and holds master's and bachelor's degrees in violin performance from Yale University and University of Michigan, respectively. Her major teachers were Paul Makanovitzky, Szymon Goldberg and Ivan Galamian, and she was a chamber music protégé of Tokyo Quartet. She currently serves as President & CEO of The Music School of Delaware. Ms. Ransom plays a violin crafted in 1728 by Venetian master Sanctus Serafin. |
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| Noted as "intense" by American Record Guide, "energetic" by Rome News Tribune and "technique beyond reproach" by the Buffalo Times, violinist Timothy Schwarz is a prominent soloist, collaborative artist and educator. Since his solo debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the age of nine, he has performed as a solo and collaborative artist in recitals and chamber music concerts throughout North and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia. He has been named "Most Promising Artist in Maryland" by The National Endowment of the Arts for his performance of Bartok's Violin Concerto No. 2 with the Cincinnati Concert Orchestra. He also won the Artistic Ambassador Competition, resulting in 75 recitals in 20 different countries throughout the Middle East, North Africa and Asia. As a concerto soloist, he has appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Richmond Philharmonic, the Rome Symphony Orchestra, the Brazilian Chamber Orchestra, the Hamilton-Fairfield Symphony, the Blue Ash/Montgomery Symphony and numerous regional orchestras in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic. He holds degrees from Temple University, the Peabody Conservatory and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. His principal teachers were Dorothy DeLay, Helen Kwalwasser and Sylvia Rosenberg. Mr. Schwarz is director and founder of Techne Music, which includes a summer chamber music camp and concert series; Head of the String Program and Professor of Practice at Lehigh University and Music Director of the Wilmington Community Orchestra. |
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| Winner of numerous prizes and scholarships, most notably the Flora Matheson Goulden String Prize and the 2006 Viola Congress Canadian Music Competition, Allen-Creighton is a popular solo, orchestral and chamber musician. She was featured soloist of both the 2006 International and 2009 Canadian Viola Congresses. She performed as principal violist of the Orchestra of Northern New York, Arcos Chamber Orchestra and Juilliard Symphony. She also performed as violist of the Potsdam Piano Quartet. An enthusiastic chamber musician, Ms. Allen-Creighton has collaborated with Ani Kavafian, Steven Doane, Jesse Levine and Sabine Meyer, as well as members of the New York Philharmonic in a special "Genius of the Brandenburgs" concert. She has participated in numerous music festivals including Banff, Orford, Norfolk, Juilliard Chamberfest, Oberstdorfer Musiksommer and Academie Bad LeonFelden, and she has also performed throughout North American, Europe and Asia. Ms. Allen-Creighton holds bachelor's and master's of music degrees from The Juilliard School in New York and is currently finishing doctoral work with Jutta Puchhammer at the University of Montreal. She served on the faculty at the Crane School of Music (SUNY Potsdam) and is presently serving on the faculty at the University of Delaware. |
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| Hailed in Strings Magazine for "style and elegance" and "lyrical expressiveness," Lawrence Stomberg enjoys a wide-ranging career as soloist, chamber musician and pedagogue. Since his debut at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in 1999, he has performed as soloist and chamber musician as faculty at the Eastern Music Festival and Texas Music Festival, and as a founding member of the ensembles Trilogy, the Johannes Trio, and Brightmusic. Recent seasons have brought him, as soloist and collaborator, to venues throughout the east coast and southern United States, as well as debuts in China, the United Kingdom and Colombia. As an orchestral performer, he served as Assistant Principal Cellist in the Oklahoma City Philharmonic and as a member of the Tulsa Philharmonic. His debut recording, The American Cello, was released in 2000, and he has also recorded for the VAI label. A student of Shirley Trepel at Rice University, where he graduated with a bachelor's of music, he continued his studies with Timothy Eddy, receiving his master's and doctoral degrees at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Mr. Stomberg served on the faculties at Truman State University in Missouri and Oklahoma State University before joining the faculty at the University of Delaware. Mr. Stomberg plays a School of Testore cello, circa 1727, obtained with the generous assistance of Dr. William Stegeman. |
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