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Kevin Lawrence is an American violinist and pedagogue. He currently serves as a Professor of Violin and the String Faculty Chair at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Lawrence was also the founding Artistic Director of the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival.

Education and career
Lawrence received his music education at The Julliard School, studying violin under Ivan Galamian and Margaret Pardee, and chamber music with Felix Galimir. He continued his chamber music study at the Meadowmount School of Music under Josef Gingold.

Lawrence was appointed to the Meadowmount faculty by Ivan Galamian in 1980, and continued to teach there during summers through 1993. He became the Dean of the Killington Music Festival in 1994 and then Artistic Director in 1997, remaining until 2004.

Lawrence has taught as a Violin Professor at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts since 1990. He was awarded the school's Excellence in Teaching award in 2007.

Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival
In 2004, Lawrence founded the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, near Lake Champlain and Burlington, Vermont, serving as Artistic Director until 2021. The month-long festival is currently hosted at Saint Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont.

Notable Students

 * Carolyn Stuart, Associate Professor of Violin at the University of South Florida
 * Tasi Matthews, former Violin faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 * Jubal Fulks, Professor of Violin at the University of Northern Colorado

Discography

 * The Violin Music of Arthur Foote (1995)
 * Daniel Gregory Mason and Frederick Shepherd Converse: Violin Sonatas (2002)
 * American Flute Quintets (2012)