Cellist Lawrence Stomberg enjoys a varied career of performance as soloist and
chamber musician, pedagogue, and in community outreach through music. Hailed for "style and
elegance" and "drama and rhetoric" (Strings Magazine), and "lyrical yet impassioned
interpretation" (Fanfare Magazine), he has been a featured performer at the
Eastern Music Festival
and Texas Music Festival,
and Serafin Summer Music
and Master Players Festival,
and performs annually at the Techne Music Festival.
Currently a member of the Philadelphia-based mixed ensemble, The Halcyon Consort, he served thirteen years as the cellist of the acclaimed
Serafin String Quartet, having toured around the United States. Stomberg is invested in presenting
the music of the old masters, including recent performances of the cycle of the six Suites for
Unaccompanied Cello of J.S. Bach and the complete Cello and Piano works of Beethoven, as well as
bringing new works and compositional voices to life, with recent and upcoming premiers and
commissions of solo, sonata, chamber, and concerto works by composers Kirk O’Riordan, David Osbon,
Richard Prior, Mazz Swift, Alisa Rose, and Ketty Nez. Concerts have taken him across four
continents, with recent solo and chamber music performances in the cities of London, Vienna, Bogotá,
as well as across the United States. He has recorded for the Centaur, Naxos, Albany, Ravello, and
VAI labels.
As a recipient of the 2018 Delaware
Division of the Arts Established Artist Fellowship, Stomberg turned much of his performance
activity to musical outreach and community engagement through his project,
Bach in Wilmington, which paired the six
Suites for Solo Cello of J.S. Bach with recorded interviews of residents of Wilmington, Delaware
(his current home), and commissioned works responding both to Bach and Wilmington, by violinists
and crossover artists Mazz Swift and Alisa Rose. This work continues, with continuing performance and
teaching artist appearances in community centers, churches, food pantries, and re-entry programs
around the city, and an upcoming online video series.
Stomberg is a busy and dedicated pedagogue, having served on the faculties at Truman State
University in Missouri and Oklahoma State University before joining the music faculty at
the University of Delaware School of Music in 2004,
where he is currently Professor of Cello and Associate Director for Performance Studies. He is a
frequent guest at schools across the United States and abroad giving cello and chamber music
masterclasses, and finds the work of teaching a vital companion to that of performing.
Lawrence Stomberg lives in Wilmington, Delaware with his wife, cellist and pedagogue Jennifer
Crowell Stomberg. They have three adult children, as well as an animal menagerie of five cats, a
dog, and a turtle.
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Photography by Conrad Erb.
"A key player through all four seasons was cellist Lawrence Stomberg. His close attention
to [Julia] Fischer's lean created tight ensemble between the several duets the two played."
- Greensboro News & Record
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