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Lisa Lawson, violinist and violist, received a Bachelor of Music Degree from Peabody Conservatory, and a Master of Music Degree from University of Southern California. A native of Portland, Oregon, Lisa has performed concerts in the United States, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland. She has performed as principal violist at festivals including the Tanglewood Institute, Aspen Music Festival, and Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Italy, where she received the Guido Chigi prize. A resident of the

Sacramento region since 1994, she performs as first violinist with the Sacramento Philharmonic and the Sacramento Opera.

Lisa's musical passion is reserved for her baroque group, Sacramento Baroque Soloists, which she and her husband Michael founded in 2001, for celtic music, and for teaching. She has been teaching privately since 1994, currently teaching a select group of 15 students. Lisa's performance has been praised as "delivered with a wonderfully personal feeling...remarkable for the amount of expression she conveyed." (William Glackin, Sacramento Bee)

In 1999 and 2000 the Lawsons received an Artists in the Schools grant to teach strings to 80 string students at John Morse School in Sacramento, where they pioneered the school's string program for three years. They continue educating students in the schools with their dynamic musical program Music Journey, which they have performed in schools throughout the Sacramento region.