Hailed for "style and elegance" and "drama and rhetoric" (Strings Magazine), and
"lyrical yet impassioned interpretation" (Fanfare Magazine), Lawrence Stomberg
enjoys a wide-ranging career as soloist, chamber musician and pedagogue. Since his debut
at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in 1999, he has been a featured performer as faculty
at the
Eastern Music Festival
and Texas Music Festival,
performs annually at the Techne Music Festival
and Master Players Festival,
and was a founding member of the ensembles Trilogy, the Johannes Trio, and
Brightmusic. Recipient of the 2018 Delaware Division of the Arts Established Artist Fellowship, Stomberg
will serve in his 13th and final season as cellist of the acclaimed Serafin String Quartet, performing with
them throughout the United States. Recent seasons have brought him to venues across four continents,
performing as soloist and collaborator in London, Vienna, and Bogotá, as well as
cities and towns across the United States, including recent premiere performances of
British composer David Osbon’s Cello Sonata, a cycle of Beethoven’s Cello/Piano
works across Europe and the United States, and an early performance of a co-commissioned
concerto by British-American composer Richard Prior. In the past season, he presented the
complete Suites for Unaccompanied Cello by J.S. Bach, with commissioned companion works by
Swift Rose, as part of a
project combining music and civic conversation in Wilmington, Delaware. His debut recording,
The American Cello, was released in 2000, and he was a featured performer in two
critically acclaimed CDs released in 2013, with music by American composers Jennifer Higdon
(on Naxos Records) and Kirk O’Riordan (on Ravello Records). He has also recorded for the VAI
and Centaur labels.
As an orchestral performer, he served as Assistant Principal Cellist in the Oklahoma City Philharmonic and as a
member of the Tulsa Philharmonic and Eastern Philharmonic Orchestras.
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,
where he is currently Professor of Cello. He lives in Wilmington, Delaware with his wife,
cellist Jennifer Crowell Stomberg, and their children.
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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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