Peter Slowik, viola

In addition to performing as a soloist throughout the United States, PeterSlowik is also one of the country’s leading artist-teachers of viola. He has been a featured performer and teacher at five International Viola Congresses and has recorded on the Deutsche Grammophon, deutsche harmonia mundi/BMG, American Grammophone, Erato, and Cedille labels.  An active chamber musician, Slowik has performed with cellists Anner Bylsma and Leonard Rose, the Mirecourt Trio, the Saint Petersburg and Vermeer quartets, the Smithsonian Chamber Players, and members of the Cleveland, Chester, Orford, and Smithson quartets. Past orchestral associations include service as principal violist of the Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra, Concertante di Chicago, American Sinfonietta, and the Wichita Symphony Orchestra.

Slowik’s students have won prizes in numerous competitions, including the ASTA National Solo Competition, the Chicago Viola Society Solo Competition, the Juilliard Concerto Competition, the Ohio Viola Society Solo Competition, and the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition.  They perform in such major American orchestras as the Chicago Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, and National Symphony.

Chair of strings and professor of viola at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Slowik is also artistic director for the chamber music program CREDO. In 2002 Slowik was awarded the Maurice Riley Viola Award from the American Viola Society for "outstanding teaching, scholarship, and performance. "

"Enthusiasm combined with technical perfection."

— Albany Times Union

"Slowik played with vigor and grace. Flexing tempos brought out the ebb and flow of the allegro movements and rhythmic precision and good balance exposed the beams of their architecture, creating an electric sense of spontaneous interaction."

— Milwaukee Sentinel