Lawrence Stomberg, Cellist

Biography

Cellist Lawrence Stomberg enjoys a wide ranging career as soloist, chamber musician and pedagogue.  As a student of Shirley Trepel at Rice University, 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 SUNY Stony Brook.  As a new member of the Serafin String Quartet, he performs at venues across the country, and has also performed as soloist and chamber musician at the Tanglewood Music Center, Sarasota Music Festival, Texas Music Festival, Kneisel Hall Festival, and the Banff Centre for the Arts.  He currently serves on the performing faculty at the Eastern Music Festival.  Stomberg was also a founding member of the piano trios Trilogy and the Johannes Trio as well as the mixed ensemble Brightmusic.

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.  He served as Assistant Principal Cellist in the Oklahoma City Philharmonic from 2002 until 2004, after four years as a member of the Tulsa Philharmonic.  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.  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.