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ASU Fine Arts Department Music Faculty Laura Tomlin Part time instructor |
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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.
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