Dr. Linda Kline Lamar is an Associate Professor of Viola and Music Theory at Boise
State University where she has taught since 2000. She also teachers at the Rocky Mountain
Summer Conservatory in Steamboat Springs, CO, and at the Interlochen Summer Arts Camp in
Interlochen, MI. She holds viola performance degrees from Northwestern University, The
Cleveland Institute of Music, and The University of Memphis, where she earned her DMA in
2002. Her teachers have included Heidi Castleman, Patrick Connolly, Lenny Schranze, and
Peter Slowik. 

Dr. Kline Lamar performs regular recitals throughout the country. Recent performances
include the Virtuosi Festival in Recife, Brazil, solo recitals in Seattle and Memphis,
and collaborations with the Kandinsky Trio, Rothko Trio, Blakemore Trio, and Darkwood
Consort. She performs regularly with the IRIS Chamber Orchestra in Memphis, and the Boise
Philharmonic. She is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda Honors Society in Music, and is also an
active member of the American String Teacher’s Association and the American Viola Society
(she co-founded and is president of the Idaho chapter). She is a frequent adjudicator,
and has presented clinics and master classes across the country.

Performances

Faculty Artist Series Recital, Boise State University (2012)
 

Kandinsky Trio Concert Series: César Franck Quintet with the “Les Bois Chamber Players”, Roanoke, VA (with Craig Purdy and Brian Hodges) (2011)

This season’s final concert will be a collaboration between the Kandinskys and the Les Bois...

 

Walton Viola Concerto with Boise State University Orchestra (2011)

Guest violist, BSU faculty member Linda Kline Lamar performing the Walton Viola Concerto. Also on...

 

Faculty Artist Series Recital, Boise State University (2010)

Works by Bloch, Glazunov, and Vieuxtemps.

 

Paul Hindemith: Viola Sonata, Op. 31 #4, Movement 1 (2009)

Paul Hindemith: Viola Sonata, Op. 31 #4, Movement 1; Professor of Viola, Dr. Linda Kline...

 

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Dissertation

A Critical Edition of Giuseppe Tartini’s The Art of Bowing with Commentary, Ann Arbor : UMI Dissertation Services. (2004)

The Art of Bowing by Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770) may have been misrepresented since the early...