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2010 Teacher of the Year Award Winners
Orchestra Director of the Year: Catherine Crowe Catherine Crowe is the orchestra director at League Academy in Greenville, South Carolina. In addition to running a thriving strings program, Catherine also performs as a violinist with the Greenville Symphony Orchestra and the Greenville Chamber Orchestra. A graduate of Furman University, Mrs. Crowe served as concertmaster of the orchestra for 2 years and received the University’s Scholastic Cup for outstanding academic accomplishments. After Furman, she attended the University of Texas at Austin and received a Master of Music degree in violin performance. As a graduate student, she taught in the world renowned String Project directed by Phyllis Young. Her work in the string project included teaching music theory, conducting the beginning orchestra, and directing the preschool Suzuki program. Mrs. Crowe is a past president of the South Carolina Music Educator’s Association Orchestra Division and is a National Board Certified Teacher. She also served as League Academy’s Teacher of the Year for 2009. In her free time, she loves spending time with her two children, Rebecca and Caleb, and her husband, Greg.
Studio Teacher of the Year: Kenneth Law Kenneth Law is Associate Professor of Violoncello at the Petrie School of Music of Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. In addition to his participation in the Converse Trio, he is a member of the Greenville (SC) Symphony, and principal cellist of the Spartanburg Philharmonic Orchestra. He is a past president of the South Carolina Chapter of the American String Teachers Association, and is a founding member of the Harlaxton International Chamber Music Festival in England. Mr. Law has appeared nationally as soloist and recitalist and chamber musician. 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 is in his 13th year of service to the Petrie School of Music, and is steadily increasing his reputation as a pedagogue. His pre-college and private students have been accepted to such institutions as the Peabody and Oberlin Conservatories, Cleveland Institute of Music, and Indiana University, as well as several respected schools of music in the southeast. In addition to serving on the faculty of the Petrie School of Music, Mr. Law also serves on the summer faculties of the North Carolina School of the Arts, and the Animato! Summer Chamber Music Institute at Florida International University in Miami. 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 also served as a chamber music fellow at the Juilliard School. |
