LAURENCE LESSER

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Basic


First Name:

Cameron

Last Name:

Sawzin

City:

Boston

State:

MA

Country:

USA

First Year:

1974

Last Year:

1976


Biography


About:

Cameron Sawzin earned bachelors and master’s degrees from Oberlin College and the New England Conservatory, studying with Richard Kapuscinski and Lawrence Lesser. She attended Juilliard while in High School, playing on recording sessions in New York. She plays with Symphony New Hampshire and her Boston engagements have ranged from Masterworks Chorale and Landmarks Orchestra to Broadway shows “The Producers and the Boston Lyric Opera production of “Marriage of Figaro”. Cameron has taught at the Lexington Music School for 8 years and for 20 years in Andover and has served several times as visiting cello faculty at the University of New Hampshire. As artistic director of the Boston Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, she is designing an ongoing multimedia concert series at Fort Point Channel in Boston with Grammy winning guitarist and composer Claudio Ragazzi. Her solo cello work has been heard on the PBS show “Nova, among others and she recently released a CD entitled “A bunch of Guitars and a Cello” with virtuoso Jazz guitarist Jeff Cashen. The CD has received 6 uniformly excellent reviews, both in the US and Europe.

Current Primary Activity(ies):

Busy freelance cellist Boston and New England

Education:

NEC

Degree:

MM

Other Teachers:

Channing Robbins Leonard Rose Richard Kapuscinski