Peter Slowik
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Peter Slowik is a professor of viola
and head of the string department at Oberlin Conservatory of Music
, where he has earned the school's teaching award. Before teaching at Oberlin, Slowik taught at Cleveland Institute of Music, Northwestern University
for 13 years, where he earned the McCormick Professorship for Teaching Excellence, and also at Wheaton College, Illinois as a guest lecturer and viola instructor. Some of his former viola students perform in major US orchestras such as the Chicago Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, and National Symphony, and in university appointments across the nation.
He has a Bachelor's Degree from New England Conservatory of Music and a Master's from Eastman. He is a former violist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and solo violist at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Slowik is also currently the artistic director of Credo Chamber Music; a faith-bassed summer music program that allows gifted youths to esperience intensive chamber music instruction, master classes, and performances.
Solo performances throughout US, at 6 International Viola Congresses and on NPR. Former principal violist of the American Sinfonietta, Concertante di Chicago, and the Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra. Discography on Deutsche Grammophon
and other labels.
Viola
The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...
and head of the string department at Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Oberlin Conservatory of Music
The Oberlin Conservatory of Music, located on the campus of Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, was founded in 1865 and is the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States. Students of Oberlin Conservatory enter a very broad network within the music world, as the school's alumni...
, where he has earned the school's teaching award. Before teaching at Oberlin, Slowik taught at Cleveland Institute of Music, Northwestern University
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
for 13 years, where he earned the McCormick Professorship for Teaching Excellence, and also at Wheaton College, Illinois as a guest lecturer and viola instructor. Some of his former viola students perform in major US orchestras such as the Chicago Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, and National Symphony, and in university appointments across the nation.
He has a Bachelor's Degree from New England Conservatory of Music and a Master's from Eastman. He is a former violist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and solo violist at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Slowik is also currently the artistic director of Credo Chamber Music; a faith-bassed summer music program that allows gifted youths to esperience intensive chamber music instruction, master classes, and performances.
Solo performances throughout US, at 6 International Viola Congresses and on NPR. Former principal violist of the American Sinfonietta, Concertante di Chicago, and the Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra. Discography on Deutsche Grammophon
Deutsche Grammophon
Deutsche Grammophon is a German classical record label which was the foundation of the future corporation to be known as PolyGram. It is now part of Universal Music Group since its acquisition and absorption of PolyGram in 1999, and it is also UMG's oldest active label...
and other labels.