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Pamela McConnell (Viola)

Pamela McConnell(Professor of Viola at the University of Miami, Florida),  is recognized as a concert violist, an adjudicator and master teacher. She has recently gained notoriety as a result of her arrangements for String quartet of the much loved orchestral works, Saint Seans' Carnival of the Animals, and Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf.

She has performed as soloist and chamber musician throughout North and South America, Europe, South Africa, Australia, Japan, and Korea, and in the United States at such prestigious venues as the Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, the Gardner Museum of Boston, the Free Library of Philadelphia, Carnegie Hall in Pittsburgh, and Kleinhans Hall in Buffalo.  She has been a member of the faculties of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the State University of New York at Buffalo, where, as a member of the Rowe Quartet, she shared a Peabody Award.

McConnell is the founding violist in the Bergonzi String Quartet, the quartet, in residence at the University of Miami Frost School of Music in Coral Gables, Florida, the Pine Mountain Music Festival in Upper Peninsula Michigan, Music Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Connecticut, Rocky Mountain Music Conservatory in Colorado. She has also been a resident faculty performer at Sewanee Summer Music Center in Tennessee and Bowdoin Music Festival in Maine.

She serves as Coordinator of String Chamber Music at the University of Miami. She is Founder and Director of The University of Miami String Academy, a preparatory department at the Frost School of Music. She received a Bachelor of Music degree from Northwestern University and an M.M. degree from the University of Texas at Austin, studying under such luminaries as Walter Trampler, Leonard Shure, George Neikrug, and Andor Toth.  Ms. McConnell can be heard on the Orion, Fleur de son, Naxos, Living Artist, Audiofon, and Centaur labels.