Leslie Harlow, violist

founder/director .............................................Park City International Music Festival originally named the Deer Valley Chamber Music Festival, the Park City Film Music Festival and Sonolumina Chamber Orchestra.

degrees: Masters in Viola Performance: Juilliard School, Bachelors and Masters in Viola Performance: Texas Tech University

master classes with William Primrose, Donald McGinnis, Nabuko Imai, Paul Doktor

chamber studies with Felix Galimer, Claus Adam, Julius Baker, Samuel Rhodes, Suzanne MacDonald

principal violist, Sonolumina Chamber Orchestra - present

Utah Symphony 2001 - present

Artistic Director - Virtuoso Series at Libby Gardner Hall 2004 - present

principal violist and principal viola soloist with the recording orchestras of Utah 1985 - present

principal violist, Ballet West 1987 - 2001

formerly viola and chamber music faculty, Brigham Young University

filmscore solo credits include "Murder in the First", "Surviving Picasso"

hobbies: composing, birdwatching, computers, watching films, digital graphic art

born: Lubbock, Texas

most recent and upcoming performances: Soloist with Sonolumina Chamber Orchestra (Flos Campi by Vaughan Williams), guest artist with 2003 ClarFest (Salt Lake City), guest violist with Elements Quartet in Utah, guest artist on Ling Concert Series (Kansas), guest artist with Piatigorsky Foundation (New Jersey), with Leonore Trio (New York), Ars Vitalis New Music Series (New Jersey), Sitka Chamber Music Festival (Alaska), New Music Consortium (Salt Lake City), director and performer with Park City International Music Festival (Park City) and Autumn Classics Music Festival, Cultural Olympiad 2002 in Park City and Salt Lake City with violinist Koh-Gabriel Kameda and pianist Megumi Masaki.

lots of chamber music: Collaborative performances with violinists (in alphabetical order) Andres Cardenes, Charles Castleman, Arturo Delmoni, Glenn Dicterow, Philippe Djokic, Joseph Genualdi, Koh Gabriel Kameda, Oleh Krysa, Charles Libove, Schlomo Mintz, Elmar Oliveira, Bill Preucil, Paul Rosenthal, Joseph Silverstein, violist Paul Neubauer, cellists Stephen Balderston, Scott Ballantyne, Evan Drachman, Yehuda Hanani, Terry King, Jeffrey Solow, Frederick Zlotkin, clarinetist Russell Harlow, pianists John Novacek, Gail Niwa, Michael Gurt, Robert Moeling, Anne Marie McDermott, guest violist with the Elements Quartet, Muir Quartet, Arcata Quartet, Raphael Trio, Leonore Trio and many other fine artists.

violas: 16 inch Lawrence Furse (pictured below)

and 15.5 inch Francesco Guadagnini

Clarinetist Russell Harlow, Deacon (red heeler) and Dolly (Turkish akbash)