Kathleen Sloan is an American violinist based in

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and a member of the

Sonus Quartet Sonus Quartet is a Los Angeles-based string quartet whose members include Caroline Campbell (violin I), Kathleen Sloan (violin II), Neel Hammond (viola), and Vanessa Freebairn-Smith (cello). Freebairn-Smith and Hammond formed Sonus Quartet in 200 ...

Early life

Sloan grew up in a ranching family in

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. At 15, Sloan left home and enrolled in the Young Artist Program at the

Cleveland Institute of Music The Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) is a private music conservatory in Cleveland, Ohio. Founded in 1920 by Ernest Bloch, it enrolls 325 students in the conservatory and approximately 1,500 students in the preparatory and continuing educatio ...

, where she completed high school while beginning her Bachelor of Music at the Cleveland Institute of Music under the tutelage of David Cerone. She later graduated magna cum laude from the

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Sonus Quartet

''Sonus Quartet'', Accessed July 30, 2011.

Career

Sloan was a member of the Houston Grand Opera and Houston Ballet Orchestra from 2004 to 2009, and joined the

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based

in 2008. She also served as Concertmaster for the Abilene Philharmonic for two seasons.The Cooking Grou

"The Cooking Group", May 2, 2011, Accessed July 30, 2011.

Notes

External links

Sonus Quartet official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sloan, Kathleen Living people American violinists American women violinists University of Southern California alumni Cleveland Institute of Music alumni People from Breckenridge, Texas 21st-century violinists Year of birth missing (living people)