Violist Katrin Meidell, DMA, enjoys an active international career as a performer, pedagogue, and lecturer. Her work has taken her throughout the United States and to Canada, Finland, Austria, Poland, Brazil, the Netherlands, Thailand, and New Zealand. She has published articles in American String Teacher and the Journal of the American Viola Society.
A dedicated leader within the American Viola Society (AVS), Dr. Meidell has served the organization in numerous capacities, from volunteer to Board member. She organized and hosted the 2022 American Viola Society Festival & 47th International Viola Congress and currently serves as Secretary of the AVS, a position she assumed in July 2024.
Dr. Meidell is a reviewer for American String Teacher and previously served on the American String Teachers Association Health and Wellness Committee, where she contributed her expertise towards the health and wellness of string players. A recognized specialist in the Karen Tuttle Coordination method, she has presented master classes and lectures at International Viola Congresses in Thailand and the Netherlands, the Poznań International Viola Forum (Poland), the University of North Texas, Florida State University, the University of Alabama, Boston University, and numerous other institutions.
Dr. Meidell is Professor of Viola at the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia. She holds degrees from Boston University, New England Conservatory, and the University of North Texas, where she studied viola with Michelle LaCourse, Carol Rodland, and Dr. Susan Dubois. Before dedicating herself to the viola, she studied violin with Geda Khatutskaya and Dana Mazurkevich.
Outside of music, she enjoys traveling, outdoor adventures, and knitting. For more information, visit www.katrinmeidell.com.
Marcin Murawski
Violist, conductor, teacher, writer and prize winner in solo and chamber music contests; studied at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań with his Father, professor Andrzej Murawski. He graduated with honors in 1998, and has been employed since 1997 at the Poznań-based Academy where he teaches a viola and chamber music class, currently as a titular professor.
He has given solo recitals in most European countries, in the USA (e. g. in Carnegie Hall), China, Thailand, Brazil and New Zealand. Murawski has given lectures and master courses in viola and chamber music in Europe (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna Austria, National Conservatory of Music in St. Petersburg Russia, Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin Ireland, Academy of Music in Riga Latvia, National Music Academy in Lviv Ukraine, Estonian Music and Theatre Academy in Tallinn Estonia, National Music Conservatory in Tbilisi Georgia to name a few), China (National Conservatory of Music in Harbin), in the USA, in Thailand, Brazil and in New Zealand.
He has been a juror in international and national musical contests, as well as the teacher of numerous graduates who went on to win several prizes and distinctions themselves. Murawski has released over 30 CD and DVD albums with solo and chamber works, most featuring world premieres. He has been cooperating with the publishing house Acte Préalable, for which he has recorded music across all periods and including contemporary music, such as the works of the American violist and composer Michael Kimber.
Member of Australian and New Zealand Viola Society, founder of the annual Poznań International Viola Forum and President of Foundation Murovisation. In July 2020 he received the title of professor from the President of Poland. Since January 2020 Member of the Board of the International Viola Society. www.marcinmurawski.eu