Cellist Lawrence Stomberg enjoys a wide ranging career as soloist, chamber musician and
pedagogue. As a member of the acclaimed Serafin String Quartet, he performs at venues across the United States
and will release his second CD recording with them in 2012 on the Naxos label. He has performed as
soloist and chamber musician as faculty at the Eastern Music Festival and Texas Music Festival, and was a founding member of the piano trios
Trilogy and the Johannes Trio as well as the Brightmusic concert series in Oklahoma City, OK.
In October of 1999, his New York recital debut at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall was
hailed in Strings Magazine for its "style and elegance" and "lyrical expressiveness".
As a committed performer of contemporary music, Stomberg has premiered works at New York's
Miller Theater and Merkin Hall, and, in 2000, released a debut recording of solo contemporary
music entitled The American Cello. In addition to this disc, he has also recorded for
the VAI and Centaur labels.
In recent seasons, Stomberg has given solo and chamber music performances across the United
States, in China, and in the United Kingdom, and has been a featured concerto soloist with
orchestras in Delaware, Alabama and Georgia. He makes his South American debut as a featured
soloist and collaborator in Bogotá, Colombia in August 2011. As an orchestral performer,
Stomberg served as Assistant Principal Cellist in the Oklahoma City Philharmonic from 2002 until 2004, after four years as a member
of the Tulsa Philharmonic. He was a student of Shirley Trepel at Rice University, where he
graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Music degree, and continued his studies with
Timothy Eddy, receiving his Masters and Doctor of Musical Arts Degrees at the State University
of New York at Stony Brook.
An active and dedicated pedagogue, Stomberg served on the faculties at Truman State University
in Missouri and Oklahoma State University before joining the music faculty at the University of Delaware in 2004 where he is
Associate Professor of Cello. He lives in Delaware with his wife, cellist Jennifer Crowell
Stomberg, and their three children.
Lawrence Stomberg plays a School of Testore cello, circa 1727, obtained with the generous
assistance of Dr. William Stegeman. |
Photography by Conrad Erb.
"A key player through all four seasons was cellist Lawrence Stomberg. His close attention
to [Julia] Fischer's lean created tight ensemble between the several duets the two played."
- Greensboro News & Record
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