Summer Strings Intensive Faculty

Ida Bieler

UNCSA Summer Strings Director

Violin, Viola

Described by Fanfare Magazine as “a specialist in everything, from Bach to new-music premieres…” violinist Ida Bieler is renowned as a musician of extraordinary scope. A winner of prestigious competitions on three continents, she has enjoyed an exceptional solo, collaborative and recording career worldwide, and is one of the most sought-after teachers of her generation.

Kevin Lawrence

Violin
UNCSA

Violin faculty Kevin Lawrence's own depth of musical conviction, his rich experience with several important figures in the history of violin playing, along with continuing engagement with prominent performers and teachers—both as director of Green Mountain and through ongoing international contacts—gives him an unusually broad perspective on how a student may attain success as a violinist.

Brett Deubner

Viola
UNCSA

An internationally acclaimed soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and educator, Brett Deubner has performed with more than 90 orchestras in 14 countries. His debut with the Grammy Award-winning New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, premiering Lalo Schifrin’s Triple Concerto, led to engagements throughout the United States and abroad. His contributions to the viola repertoire include more than 50 concertos composed and dedicated to him, as well as 26 critically acclaimed recordings.

Deubner has also recorded with the Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Läänesaarte Kammerorkester, and the BBC Scottish National Symphony for Orchid Classics. As a chamber musician, he has performed with distinguished artists including Pinchas Zukerman, the Tokyo String Quartet and Carol Wincenc, among other collaborators in the United States and abroad.

Previously, Deubner served on the string faculties of Temple University's Boyer College of Music in Philadelphia and the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College in New York and continues to serve on the string faculty of the Round Top Festival Institute.