Kenneth Slowik is an American cellist, viol

Viol

The viol is any one of a family of bowed, fretted and stringed musical instruments developed in the mid-late 15th century and used primarily in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. The family is related to and descends primarily from the Renaissance vihuela, a plucked instrument that preceded the...

 player, and conductor, Curator of the Division of Music, Sports and Entertainment at the National Museum of American History

National Museum of American History

The National Museum of American History: Kenneth E. Behring Center collects, preserves and displays the heritage of the United States in the areas of social, political, cultural, scientific and military history. Among the items on display are the original Star-Spangled Banner and Archie Bunker's...

 and Artistic Director of the Smithsonian Chamber Music Society.

He has appeared in hundreds of concerts with SCMS ensembles and made over fifty recordings for Dorian

Dorian

The Dorians were one of the four major ethnē into which the Ancient Greeks, or Hellenes, of the Classical period considered themselves divided. Ethnos has the sense of ethnic group. Herodotus uses the word with regard to them...

, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi and other labels; some have won France's Diapason d'Or

Diapason d'Or

The Diapason d'Or is a recommendation of outstanding classical music recordings given by reviewers of Diapason magazine in France, broadly equivalent to "Editor's Choice", "Disc of the Month" in the British Gramophone magazine....

for Chamber Music, Germany's Alte Musik Actuell's Record of the Year, and other similar prizes.

External links

• Staff page at the National Museum of American History
• Smithsonian Chamber Music Society