Viola

Principal

Kimberly Lehmann

 

Kimberly Lehmann, originally from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, received her Bachelor of Music in violin performance from the University of Minnesota and her Master of Music in violin performance and literature from the Eastman School of Music. Her principal teachers were Lea Foli, Harold Wippler, Catherine Tait and Camilla Wicks.

 

She has been a member of the South Dakota Symphony, the Colorado Springs Symphony qnd the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra. She has performed with the Eastman Philharmonia in residence at the Heidelberg Schlossfestspiele, at the National Orchestral Institute, and with the Boston Academy of Music. She is the violist of the Meliora String Quartet, concertmaster of the Maine Chamber Ensemble and regularly performs with the Portland Symphony, PORT Opera, Portland Ballet, Atlantic Chamber Orchestra and the Portland Chamber Orchestra.

Ms. Lehmann maintains an active teaching studio, using both traditional and Suzuki methods. She has coached violin sectionals and chamber music for the Longwood Symphony, Brandeis University, Wellesley College, the Greater Boston Youth Symphonies and the USM Youth Ensembles. She has adjudicated auditions for the New England Conservatory Youth Orchestras and for Maine District Festivals. Ms. Lehmann has also performed solo works with the North Shore Philharmonic Orchestra, the Salem Philharmonic and the Longy School of Music. In addition, she has an interest in violin repair and completed a course at the Hans Nebel Violin Repair Workshop while she was manager of the rental department at Johnson String Instrument in Newton, MA.

 

Kim lives in Scarborough, Maine with her husband Robert and sons Eric and Alexander.

 

Laurie Kennedy

She has been Principal Violist and frequent soloist with the Portland Symphony Orchestra since 1981. This November she will be performing the Mozart Sinfonia Concertante with the PSO and violinist/conductor, Joseph Silverstein. She co-founded Maine Mountain Chamber Music, a series in Farmington, where she also maintains her teaching studio. Before moving to Maine, she was a member of the Montreal Symphony, Principal Viola of the Vancouver Symphony and Associate Principal of the Buffalo Philharmonic. A participant at the Festival since 1977, she was co-Music Director for fifteen years and was appointed Music Director in 2000.