MEREDITH CRAWFORD

Viola

Violist Meredith Crawford, a Maine native, is the Principal Violist of the Pacific Symphony Orchestra and studied under the tutelage of Professor Peter Slowik at Oberlin College and Conservatory. She graduated in 2009 after completing Oberlin’s double-degree program with both a B.M. in Viola Performance and a B.A. in English Literature. After being inducted into the Pi Kappa Lambda honor society, she received the prestigious Prize for Musicianship, awarded to students judged to be “the most outstanding of those elected to Pi Kappa Lambda.”  Crawford was the first-prize winner of the Ohio Viola Society’s annual competition in 2007, the 2009 Skokie Valley Symphony Annual Young Artist Competition and the 2009-10 Oberlin Conservatory Competition—the first win for a violist in over a decade.MEREDITH CRAWFORD is the Principal viola of Orange County's Pacific Symphony, and of the Eastern Festival Orchestra (as part of the Eastern Music Festival) led by Gerard Schwarz. She has  performed with the LA Philharmonic, the LA Chamber Orchestra, the Santa Barbara Symphony and the Riverside Philharmonic. She is an avid chamber musician, performing with groups such as the Salastina Music Society, Le Salon de Musiques, the Fayetteville Music Festival, the Historic Portsmouth Chamber Music Society, and the Canadaigua Lake Music Festival. Crawford also records for film and television scores, with recent titles including Godzilla, Big Hero 6, Wolverine, Empire and American Crime. She is a graduate of Oberlin College and Conservatory, where she received a BM in Viola Performance and a BA in English Literature.

PAULA FEHRENBACH

Cello

Currently a chamber musician, teacher and orchestral musician in Los Angeles, cellist PAULA FEHRENBACH began her musical life in the public schools of Green Bay, Wisconsin, and received her first formal training in cello upon her acceptance to the Peabody Conservatory as a college student.  After degrees from Peabody with Yehuda Hanani and Miami University in Oxford, Ohio with Steven Shumway, she was chosen by Lynn Harrell to join his first class at the University of Southern California where she received her doctorate in 1992.  She then spent three years with the New World Symphony under the baton of Michael Tilson-Thomas before returning to Southern California where she now pursues a varied career as artist and teacher.  She performs regularly with the Santa Barbara Symphony, the New West Symphony, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, and the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra. In addition, Paula has played has played in  several Broadway productions including The Lion King, Wicked, West Side Story, The Addams Family, Peter Pan, and Jekyll and Hyde.  Paula is a founding member of Central4, a Los Angeles based piano quartet and is also currently on the faculty of the Pasadena City College and Long Beach City College.

TIMOTHY DURKOVIC

Piano

Los Angeles based pianist, Timothy Durkovic, is an active soloist and chamber musician, collaborating regularly with some of world’s finest instrumentalists and vocalists including Lynn Harrell, Martin Chalifour, Helen Callus, Movses Pogossian, Timothy Landauer, Richard O’Neil, Jonathan Mack, the Calder Quartet, the Miró Quartet, and the Casal Quartet among others. He is the Grand Prize Winner of the 1996 Los Angels Liszt Competition as well as a winner of the Beverly Hills Auditions, the Carmel Music Society Competition, the 2001 San Diego Duo Piano Competition and the 2001 IBLA Grand Prize Duo Award (Sicily, Italy) with his duo partner Chie Nagatani, as well as the recipient of the prestigious Outstanding Master’s Graduate Award from the USC Thornton School of Music. He has served as the Director of Keyboard Studies at Long Beach