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 join the quartet in its London debut in September of 2010. 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 2006, Stomberg embarked on a concert tour of the United States and China, performing solo
recitals of modern works and presenting master classes for conservatory students. In the past
season, he has been a featured concerto soloist with orchestras in Delaware, Alabama and Georgia.
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. |
