Bio : Artists

Meredith Crawford : Viola

Violist Meredith Crawford, a Maine native, studied with Peter Slowik at Oberlin College and Conservatory.  She graduated in 2009 after completing Oberlin?s Double-Degree program with both a BM in Viola Performance and a BA in English Literature.  She was inducted into the Pi Kappa Lambda honor society, receiving the prestigious Prize for Musicianship, awarded to students judged to be ?the most outstanding of those elected to Pi Kappa Lambda.?  Crawford is the first-prize winner of the Ohio Viola Society?s annual competition in 2007, the 2009 Skokie Valley Symphony Annual Young Artist Competition, and the 2009-2010 Oberlin Conservatory Competition - the first win for a violist in over a decade. At the age of 22 - before the completion of her senior year at Oberlin Conservatory - she won her first orchestral audition and a seat with the Pacific Symphony, where she is now a tenured member.  Additionally, she has been performing with the Los Angeles Philharmonic since April of 2010.  Crawford currently resides in Costa Mesa, California and continues to enjoy her growing career in the field of classical music.