Pamela McConnell, Professor (Viola) and Program Director, Strings, received a B.M. degree from Northwestern University and an M.M. degree from the University of Texas at Austin. McConnell has performed throughout North and South America, Europe, South Africa, Australia, Japan, and Korea, and in the United States at such prestigious venues as the Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, the Gardner Museum of Boston, the Free Library of Philadelphia, Carnegie Hall in Pittsburgh, and Kleinhans Hall in Buffalo. She has been a member of the faculties of the University of North Carolina Charlotte and the State University of New York Buffalo, where, as a member of the Rowe Quartet, she shared a Peabody Award. McConnell serves as violist in the Bergonzi String Quartet, the summer quartet in residence at the Pine Mountain Music Festival in Upper Peninsula Michigan and at Madeline Island Music Camp. She also is a visiting faculty performer at Sewanee Summer Music Center in Tennessee and Bowdoin Music Festival in Maine. She is Founder and Director of Strings For Kids, a string preparatory department at the Frost School of Music. Ms. McConnell can be heard on the Orion, Fleur de son, Naxos, Living Artist, Audiofon, and Centaur lables.