Lorna Larson, founder and first violinist of Quartet Louisville, received her violin performance degree from Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where she was a full scholarship recipient. Her Master's degree is from Colorado State University. She has had many years of full-time orchestra playing with the Oklahoma Symphony. Other orchestras include: Alabama Symphony, Central City Opera Orchestra (CO), Fishcreek Wisconsin Festival Orchestra, and Mineria Orchestra (Mexico City). She has also performed concerts throughout Europe with Quartet Oklahoma, the university's faculty string quartet, and toured the Southwest with the New American Ragtime Ensemble, which also performed on the Oklahoma Symphony's "Pops" Series. Following the demise of the Oklahoma Symphony in 1989, Lorna became the assistant concertmaster of the Oklahoma Philharmonic Orchestra.

 More recently she was solo violinist with the National Tour of "My Fair Lady." In Louisville she has performed with all the major musical organizations: Louisville Orchestra, Broadway Series (Beauty & The Beast, The King & I, Ragtime, South Pacific, Evita, to name a few), Louisville Bach Society Orchestra, and Actors Theatre (Coconuts, Wizard of OZ, Peter Pan). She has taught violin at several universities, including the University of Louisville. Two sons and a daughter call her "mom," and there are 8 wonderful grandchildren.

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