The program in cello study at Lawrence University is designed to provide
undergraduate cellists with a comprehensive education in cello performance
and pedagogy. Students may select majors in performance, music education,
and theory/composition or develop areas of concentration outside established
programs through student-designed majors. Many students elect to combine majors
in the Conservatory of Music or complete two degrees -one in the conservatory
and one in the college of liberal arts and sciences.
Students are selected from auditions held on campus and at audition sites
throughout the United States. Each cello student at Lawrence receives a private
lesson with a faculty member each week and participates in weekly performance
classes. After completing a course in cello pedagogy, students may develop
their own studios through the Lawrence Academy of Music. All courses, lessons,
and coaching sessions at Lawrence University are taught by members of the
faculty.
Students of Professor Anthony have gone on to study with such teachers as
Colin Carr, Norman Fischer, Jean Michel Fontenay, Hans Jorgen Jensen, Mark
Johnson, Paul Katz, Janos Starker, and Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi. They have been accepted
to prestigious music programs such as the New England Conservatory; Indiana
University; Northwestern University; Oberlin; San Francisco Conservatory;
Shepard School of Music, and SUNY Stony Brook. Those who have a degree in
Music Education have a 100% placement rate in the field. Former students are
playing in orchestras, free-lancing and are teaching faculty in community
music programs across the country.
In keeping with the mission of Lawrence University to educate men and women
in the liberal arts and sciences and given our commitment to the development
of intellect and talent, the acquisition of knowledge and understanding, and
the cultivation of judgment and values, it is not surprising that the pursuit
of a liberal arts education can lead one to take unexpected turns and there
are those whose lives and passions have led them down alternate routes. Alumni
of the cello studio include those who have earned PhD’s in Physics,
Information Technology and Philosophy, a priest, a beer maker, an ethnomusicologist,
rock climbers and much more.