Sam Lorenzini
Teaching Artist
Violinist/Violist Sam Lorenzini, a native of Seal Beach, California, began studying violin at eight years old with Marcy Sudock. He has been the concertmaster of Musique Sur La Mer Youth Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra and has won the highest honors 4 years in a row at the Los Alamitos-Seal Beach Solo and Ensemble Festival. Sam has been the featured soloist with MSLMYSO and MSLMCO both locally and abroad and has performed in numerous international venues, including the Wiener Musikverein in Vienna, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Sydney Opera House, and the Teatro Nacional in San Jose, Costa Rica. Sam received his Bachelor of Arts with an emphasis in Music Education from UCLA where he studied violin with Margaret Lysy. It was during his time at UCLA that he first began assisting and teaching at SOL-LA Music Academy. Sam then continued his education with a Master of Music degree in violin performance at the Bob Cole Conservatory at CSULB where he studied with Henry Gronnier. While pursuing this degree, Sam served as violist in the University String Quartet where he had the opportunity to participate in an intensive chamber music project with Midori Goto during the winter and spring of 2016. The group had a series of outreach performances with Ms. Goto, performing Britten’s 2nd String Quartet. In 2019, Sam returned to UCLA to serve as violist for the VEM String Quartet as part of the Armenian music program and is currently finishing his second master’s degree, in viola performance, studying under Che-Yen Chen. He has remained a dedicated teacher both publicly and privately having taught beginning strings at nine of the ten elementary schools in Santa Monica and Malibu from 2016-2019 as well as violin and viola at SOL-LA. Currently, Sam is the Director of Orchestras at Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica. Having spent the last decade in the West LA/Santa Monica area, Sam has a deep respect and admiration for the work that SOL-LA has done in promoting high quality music education for all students in the community and is inspired to continue to enrich the musical lives of his students and audiences for years to come.
