Artaria String Quartet

Ray Shows, Violin

Nancy Oliveros, Violin

Annalee Wolf, Viola

Laura Sewell, Cello

A founding member of the critically acclaimed ARTARIA STRING QUARTET and a 2004 McKnight Fellow, violinist Nancy Oliveros has performed at renowned venues in New York, Boston, Atlanta, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Chicago, and throughout the United States and Europe. She is a multi-year recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Chamber Music America, and the Heartland Fund for performance and educational outreach projects. She has appeared with members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, Juilliard and Cleveland Quartets, and performed in Boston with the Pops "Cameo", Ballet, Opera and Pro Arte Chamber Orchestras. Prior to co-founding Stringwood, a unique summer chamber music program, she was an Artist/Teacher in Residence at the world-renowned Tanglewood Institute. With the ASQ, other festival performances include Banff, Hampden-Sydney, and the L'Epau Festival in France. She was awarded past fellowships to Aspen, Kneisel Hall, the Florida Festival, and Brevard. Nancy was a graduate teaching assistant at The Florida State University, and Boston University where she received a Director's Award for post-graduate violin and chamber music studies with Roman Totenberg, Eugene Lehner, Raphael Hillyer, and the Muir Quartet. Further studies in chamber music were mentored by members of the Budapest, Emerson, Cleveland, LaSalle, and Colorado Quartets. Major violin teachers include Roman Totenberg, Gerardo Ribeiro, Karen Clarke and Robert Gerle. She has served on the faculty at Carleton College and Viterbo University. Nancy resides in St. Paul, Minnesota where she co-directs the Artaria Chamber Music School and maintains a private studio. She plays on a rare 1819 violin by Joseph Ceruti.