Dorothy Lawson is a Canadian cellist and composer based in New York City.The Canadian Encyclopedia"An Environmental Album Recaptured in a Concert ‘Documerica,’ at BAM, Featuring the New-Music Quartet Ethel",The New York Times, by Steve Smith, Oct. 6, 2013 She is best known as a co-founder and artistic director of the string quartet ETHEL."Traveling With a Moody Old Friend That’s Tightly Strung", The New York Times, by Dorothy Lawson, April 8, 2008 ETHEL: IT'S ABOUT TIME., Classical Music and Dance Guide, The New York Times, November 1, 2002 On the founding of ETHEL she says, "we... realized that we were in the middle of a really powerful new upsurge of creative energy in music of our time that we were kind of the perfect vehicle for."Art Works Podcast: Dorothy Lawson and Ralph Farris, of the new music quartet ETHEL, National Endowment for the Arts
Prior to ETHEL, Lawson toured with Mikhail Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Project, Bang on a Can All-Stars and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. She was a founding member of the Rossetti and Roerich String Quartets, and served 10 years as faculty of Joseph Fuchs' Alfred University Summer Chamber Music Institute.Arts Ashima Music Festival BioGrand Canyon Music Festival BioMannes Faculty Lawson was an orchestra member of the 2002 Off-Broadway production of Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years and the 2005 Broadway production of The Woman in White.AllMusic CreditsBroadway World Credits She has been a member of the Ron Carter Nonet."Jazz Bassist Ron Carter: Helping Others Sound Their Best, Famed musician is a stand-up guy", All Things Strings, by Dan Ouellette, May 2004 Lawson appears on multiple recordings, including the GRAMMY Award-winning album Dedicated to You: Kurt Elling Sings the Music of Coltrane and HartmanAllmusic CreditsArtist Direct She is a member of acclaimed Brazilian jazz pianist Marcelo Zarvos +Group.All About Jazz reviewAllmusic review Lawson is a graduate of the Juilliard School and a current faculty at the Preparatory Division of Mannes College at the New School.Mannes Faculty She is quoted numerous times in the book How to Grow as a Musician: What All Musicians Must Know to Succeed by Sheila E. Anderson on the topic of how to balance work and family as a working musician.How to Grow as a Musician: What All Musicians Must Know to Succeed by Sheila E. Anderson, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc., Jul 1, 2005
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