Introducing:
Our Musicians
Our prestigious group of talented musicians. Each musician is auditioned and compensated for their work.
Maestro
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Violas
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Cellos
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J. Cameron Law is an award-winning educator, cellist, composer, and conductor. He retired in 2019 after 29 years as Director of Orchestras at Grand Junction High School and West Middle School, and he has also served as a music instructor at Colorado Mesa University. He is the co-principal cellist of the Grand Junction Symphony, was the cellist for Trio de las Americas, and performed for several seasons at the Crested Butte Summer Music Festival.
Mr. Law is in high demand as a clinician, guest conductor, and adjudicator, and has conducted all-state orchestras in Colorado and New Mexico as well as honor orchestras, festivals, and music camps throughout the country. His orchestras at Grand Junction High School performed six times at the Colorado Music Educators Association annual conference.
He has been the State President of the Colorado American String Teachers Association and was the Camp Director of the CASTA Middle School String Camp for 20 years. He has served on several advisory boards and, in 2002, was named the Colorado ASTA String Teacher of the Year. In 2020 he received the CASTA Lifetime Service Award, and in 2021 he was inducted into the Colorado Music Educators Association Hall of Fame. He is currently the String Editor for Grand Mesa Music as well as Ludwig Masters and Keiser Southern Music. His compositions and commissions have appeared on several state lists and have been performed at both the Midwest Conference and at National ASTA conventions.
Mr. Law spent many summers as the Program Director for the Road Scholar Program at the Aspen Music Festival. He holds music degrees from both Colorado State University and the University of Michigan. He has two grown children, a grandchild, and he and his terrier Patsy Cline enjoy all the outdoor activities Western Colorado has to offer.
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Basses
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Justin G. Russell Jr is maternally Irish born for Tsi’naajinii. Fourth Generation Diné Silversmith, Lapidary Artist, Bassist, Composer, and Cultural Preservationist. Owner of Russell Trading Company since 2020. Current ensembles include the Grand Junction Symphony, Mariachi San Jose, and Russell Chamber Ensembles.
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Clarinets
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Bassoons
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“Christopher Pawlowski is a Texas-born bassoonist and contrabassoonist currently based in Colorado Springs after moving to the area in November of 2020. In 2018 he completed his M.M. in Music Performance at Temple University in Philadelphia studying under Daniel Matsukawa. He previously graduated in 2016 with his B.M. in Music Performance studying under Wilfred Roberts at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Pawlowski joined the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra as 2nd bassoon in August of 2023. He has also performed with several professional regional orchestras including the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, the Chamber Orchestra of the Springs, the Boulder Symphony, the Arapahoe Philharmonic, the Juneau Symphony, the Allentown Symphony, the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, the Delaware Symphony, and Symphony in C in Camden, NJ. Pawlowski has also performed at several music festivals including the Aspen Music Festival, the Kent/Blossom Chamber Music Festival, the Chamber Music Institute at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the Maryland Wind Festival, and the National Orchestral Institute (NOI). Pawlowski can be heard on Maryland Chamber Winds’ 2020 album “Preludes and Recitations” and on NOI Festival Orchestra’s 2019 Grammy-nominated album “Harbison, Ruggles, & Stucky: Orchestral Works” for which he played principal bassoon on John Harbison’s “Symphony No. 4”. He also served as principal bassoonist of Montréal’s Orchestre de la Francophonie in their summer 2016 season. Well-versed in contemporary performance, Pawlowski recently enjoyed a successful premier of “Iphigenia”, an unaccompanied bassoon solo written for him in April 2019 by R.S. Stricklin III at the Manhattan School of Music. When not performing classically, he enjoys hiking, camping, watching movies, and creating genre-bending cover videos of various types of rock, progressive metal, and doom metal on YouTube using electronically amplified bassoon”
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Trombones
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Tuba
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Guitar
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Timpani & Percussionists
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Woodwinds
Brass
Timpani & Percussion
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