ASU Fine Arts Department

Music Faculty

Laura Tomlin

Part time instructor

 

Laura Tomlin, violinist, received her early training with the Hungarian immigrant Henri T. Schwarzenberger in Macon, Georgia. She continued her studies with Elaine Richey at North Carolina School of the Arts (BM 1984) and with Alice Schoenfeld at the University of Southern California (MM 1986). Ms. Tomlin has performed in festivals in New York, California, Maine, Michigan, Germany and Italy. She has been a member of the Augusta symphony since 1987, serving one year as concertmaster and ten years as Principal Second Violin. She was also a member of the Augusta Symphony (Magellan) String quartet from `1989-2000, the Southern Arts Piano Trio from 1994-1998, and held the position of artist-in-residence at Georgia Southern University from 1997-2000. Ms. Tomlin left her positions in 2000 in order to pursue the Doctor of Musical Arts degree under Levon Ambartsumian at the University of Georgia, where she is currently a doctoral candidate.

In 2001, she was awarded a research grant to attend the International Colourstrings Symposium in Helsinki, Finland. Recently she performed in Weill Recital Hall (part of Carnegie Hall) in New York as a member of the ARCO Chamber Orchestra. In addition she has served a director of the Augusta State University summer string camp since 1999. At present she is the founder and director of the new (July 2004) Carolina String Academy in Aiken, South Carolina, as well as conductor of one of two new youth orchestras in Aiken. She teaches for Augusta State University Conservatory Program and is adjunct instructor at Augusta State University and the University of South Carolina- Aiken.