The Pierre Monteux School
is pleased to announce the appointment of
Peter Slowik as
2008 Artist in Residence

Renowned violist and string teacher Peter Slowik will join our program during the first week to offer a variety of professional development opportunities, including: mock auditions; chamber music, strings, and solo master classes; orchestral audition preparation classes; and interactive sessions with conductors and ensembles to help them “learn the language” of string players, enhancing their vocabulary of techniques and terminology.

PETER SLOWIK
Artist in Residence

Peter Slowik has an international reputation as a leading artist-teacher of string playing at the highest level. He has been a featured performer and teacher at five International Viola Congresses, has performed as viola soloist throughout the United States, and recently presented master classes in China, Australia, and New Zealand.

Mr. Slowik is the head of the String Department at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Artistic Director for Credo Chamber Music. Slowik has performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra, among others, and has served as Principal Violist of the American Sinfonietta, Concertante di Chicago, and Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra.

Past teaching posts include Northwestern and the Cleveland Institute of Music. At Northwestern he received that school's highest teaching award: the McCormick Professorship for Teaching Excellence. In 2002 Mr. Slowik was the recipient of the American Viola Society’s Maurice Riley Viola Award for "outstanding teaching, scholarship, and performance. “

His viola students have won prizes in numerous competitions, including the ASTA National Solo Competition, the Chicago Viola Society Solo Competition, the Juilliard Concerto Competition, the Ohio Viola Society Solo Competition, and the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. They perform in such major American orchestras as the Chicago Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, and National Symphony, and in university appointments throughout the country.