Cellist Kenneth Law joins the faculty of the George Mason University School of Music from the Converse College Petrie School of Music, where he was Chair of the Performance Department, Associate Professor of Violoncello, and served as Assistant Dean during his tenure. He held principal and section positions with the Spartanburg Philharmonic, Greenville (SC) Symphony and Greater Anderson Musical Arts Consortium. He is the cellist of Ensemble Argos, and has appeared nationally as soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. Performances include appearances at the German Embassy in Washington, D.C., the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jazz at Lincoln Center Concert Series, and Alice Tully Hall in New York City. Mr. Law has also performed in England, France, Scotland, Panama and Puerto Rico as a member of the Converse Trio. He has collaborated with such artists as Earl Carlyss (Juilliard String Quartet), Michael Tree (Guarneri Quartet), Ying String Quartet, Norman Carroll (concertmaster emeritus, Philadelphia Orchestra), Diane Monroe, and the late Samuel Baron, and has recorded orchestral and chamber music for the New Albion and Telarc labels. In March of 2006, Mr. Law was featured on the nationally televised NAACP Image Awards as a member of the Ritz Chamber Players. Mr. Law gave his first performance at the Piccolo Spoleto Music Festival as a member of the Converse Trio in the spring of 2008, and in the summers of 2009 and 2010 as a member of Ensemble Argos.

Mr. Law’s pre-college and private students have been accepted to the Peabody and Oberlin Conservatories, Cleveland Institute of Music, Indiana University (Bloomington), Florida State University, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and other respected schools of music in the southeast, and sit in the highest stands of the SC Region and All-State Orchestras. He is a past president of the South Carolina Chapter of the American String Teachers Association, and most recently received the 2010 Studio Teacher of the Year Award from this organization.

Mr. Law received undergraduate and graduate degrees in performance from the Eastman School of Music and Cleveland Institute of Music where his primary teachers were Paul Katz and Alan Harris, and a Graduate Performance Diploma from the Peabody Conservatory as a student of Stephen Kates. He was a Friedberg Chamber Music Fellow at the Peabody Conservatory, and an Arnhold Chamber Music Fellow at The Juilliard School. During the summer, Mr. Law serves on the faculties of the Five Seasons Chamber Music Festival in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts Summer Chamber Music Institute.  He is also on the Artistic Planning Committee for the Gateways Music Festival, in residence at the Eastman School of Music.