Honors Strings Chamber Music & Music Theory

John Ravnan, Instructor
E-mail: John Ravnan

B.M. Eastman School of Music

M.M. Peabody Conservatory of Musc

John Ravnan was recognized by Chamber Music America as one of the nation's leading chamber music educators and was invited to participate in its first Educator/Ensemble conference. He was also a member of the viola panel at ASTA's National Studio Teachers Forum at Indiana University. He is a former member of the Atlanta Chamber Players, the Atlantic String Quartet, and the Lyra String Quartet. While in Atlanta, John premiered works by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Harbison and Anne LeBaron. He appeared several times on National Public Radio's Performance Today, CBC radio in Canada, and in a live recital broadcast from the Philips collection in Washigton, DC. Solo performances include concertos with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Spartanburg Philharmonic, Brevard Chamber Orchestra, Foothills Philharmonic, and the East Carolina University String Orchestra. John has also been a guest artist with many distinguished ensembles including the Borodin Trio, the Kandinsky Trio, the Garth Newel Chamber Players, Converse Trio, and the Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society. As an orchestral musician he appeared with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. John served as principal violist of the Atlanta Opera, Banff Festival Opera, Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra, and the Savannah Symphony Orchestra. He teaches viola at Converse College, having previously taught at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. He has given master classes at the University of Memphis, Rhodes College, and at the Hindemith Institute in Switzerland. He also taught viola and chamber music at the North Carolina School of the Arts summer session. His principal teachers have been Heidi Castleman and Karen Tuttle. John's students have won numerous competitions and have gone on to attend Curtis, Eastman, Juilliard, Oberlin, and Peabody.