Susan Lamb Cook
 slcello@sbcglobal.net Room 108, Music Building Teaching Schedule F 9 am–3 pm |
Currently artist affiliate in cello and chamber music at UC Davis, Susan Lamb Cook performs frequently in Northern California and can be heard regularly on Capital Public Radio. She holds Bachelor of Music and Master of Fine Arts degrees from the University of Iowa, where she studied with Charles Wendt, and a degree with honors in performance from the Academy of Music in Vienna. While in Europe, Lamb Cook studied with Angelica May and participated in master classes with Andre Navarra, Paul Tortelier, and Ralph Kirshbaum. As a soloist, Susan Lamb Cook has appeared with orchestras in Europe, the United States, and the Middle East. She has performed with the Cairo Symphony in the Cairo Opera House in Egypt, the Vienna Bach Soloists in the Musikverein in Vienna, the International Bartok Chamber Orchestra in Kassel, Germany, and the Vancouver Symphony. Her 1999 U.S. premiere of Kenneth Leighton's Cello Concerto was met with critical acclaim. Susan Lamb Cook is an active member of the California Association of
Professional Music Teachers and the American String Teachers
Association, and is co-author of Guide to Teaching Strings by
Norman Lamb. In recent years, her focus on music education has taken
her to public schools around the region, offering performances and
presentations, and visiting individual classrooms. Due to a grant from
the Rumsey Community Fund and the Swift Fund for the Arts to the
Sacramento Youth Symphony, Lamb Cook will soon work with children
in the Esparto area. Her work developing the Sacramento Youth
Symphony's Chamber Music Workshop, which is now in its 17th year, has
received recognition from the New York-based organization Chamber Music
America. Lamb Cook is a member of the Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra and the Gold Coast Trio with violinist Rachel Vetter Huang and pianist Hao Huang. The Gold Coast Trio's popularity has grown since its formation in 2002 as ensemble-in-residence for the Classical Music Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria. Its concerts are always met with great enthusiasm, and a recent performance of the Beethoven Triple Concerto with the Reno Philharmonic as part of the 2005 Lake Tahoe Music Festival brought the audience to its feet. The Gold Coast Trio returned to Eisenstadt as ensemble-in-residence for the 2006 Classical Music Festival, where it performed as part of the prestigious Haydn Festspiele concert series and was featured on Austria National Television with its performance in the new Franz Liszt Concert Hall. |