Kenneth Law is Associate Professor of violoncello at the Carroll McDaniel Petrie School of Music of Converse College

Converse College

Converse College is a liberal arts women's college in Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA. It was established by a group of Spartanburg citizens and named after Dexter Edgar Converse.-History:...

, a liberal arts

Liberal arts

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 residential women's college in Spartanburg, South Carolina

South Carolina

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, USA. Kenneth has received undergraduate and graduate degrees in performance from the Eastman School of Music

Eastman School of Music

The Eastman School of Music is a music conservatory located in Rochester, New York. The Eastman School is a professional school within the University of Rochester...

 and Cleveland Institute of Music

Cleveland Institute of Music

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. He also served as a chamber music

Chamber music

Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...

 teaching assistant at the Juilliard School

Juilliard School

The Juilliard School, located at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, United States, is a performing arts conservatory which was established in 1905...

 from 1994-96. He is also the main cello instructor for the Palmetto Center for the Arts at Richland Northeast High School

Richland Northeast High School

Richland Northeast High School is a public high school in Columbia, South Carolina. Richland Northeast, often abbreviated as RNE, RNH, or RNHS, was founded in 1978 to handle the excessive population of students at Spring Valley High School. Spring Valley is now Richland Northeast's largest rival...

 in Columbia, South Carolina

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. As a performing musician, Mr. Law is currently cellist in the Converse Trio (in residence at Converse College

Converse College

Converse College is a liberal arts women's college in Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA. It was established by a group of Spartanburg citizens and named after Dexter Edgar Converse.-History:...

), the principal cellist of the Greater Spartanburg Philharmonic, a member of the Phoenix Players

Phoenix Players

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 and Ritz Chamber Players, and director of the Palmetto Cello Choir. Kenneth Law also maintains a small pre-college studio, teaching cello

Cello

The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...

 and coaching chamber music

Chamber music

Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...

to Elementary, Middle, and High School students.