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Laura Tomlin
Lecturer (Applied Strings)
Office: Etherredge Center, Room 126
Email: LauraT@usca.edu
Laura Tomlin, violinist, is the founder and director of the Carolina String Academy in Aiken and the conductor of the Greater Augusta Youth Orchestras and the Aiken String Orchestra.
She has been a member of the Augusta Symphony since 1987, serving one year as concertmaster, ten years as principal second violin, and currently as associate concertmaster. She has extensive experience as a chamber musician, including eleven years with the Augusta Symphony String Quartet, three years as artist-in-residence at Georgia Southern University, and four years with the Southern Arts Piano Trio.
She received a Bachelors of Music from North Carolina School of the Arts, a Masters of Music from the University of Southern California, and is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Georgia.
In 2001 she was awarded a research grant to attend the International Colourstrings Symposium in Helsinki, Finland. Currently Ms. Tomlin is an adjunct professor at Augusta State University and USC Aiken and teaches violin and viola privately at the Carolina String Academy and for the ASU Conservatory Program, where she also directs the summer string camp.
