Peter Slowik

Peter Slowik (born 1957 in Oak Park, Illinois) is a professor of viola and head of the string department at Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Before teaching at Oberlin, Slowik taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Northwestern University (where he earned the McCormick Professorship for Teaching Excellence), and Wheaton College (Illinois) as a guest lecturer and viola instructor. He has received awards in teaching excellence from Oberlin, Northwestern, and the American Viola Society. Some of his former viola students perform in major US orchestras such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, and the National Symphony Orchestra, and in university appointments across the nation.

Slowik has a bachelor's degree from the New England Conservatory of Music and a master's from the Eastman School of Music. 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-based summer music program that allows gifted youths to experience 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.

External links

• Oberlin faculty portrait