Violinist Kevin A. Lefohn maintains an international career as recital soloist, chamber musician, conductor, and pedagogue. He currently holds a faculty teaching position at Pacific University and is a Faculty Artist at the InterHarmony International Music Festival in Acqui Terme, Italy. He has held faculty teaching positions at the University of Otago, the University of Oregon, and the University of Portland. He was the founding director of New Zealand’s Marama Strings Project at the University of Otago and founder and Artistic Director of the renowned Queenstown Violin Summer School and Chamber Music Festival.
As an executive arts administrator, he has served as Manager of Artistic Planning for the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra and as Executive Director of the Portland Youth Philharmonic.
He studied with Dorothy DeLay, Piotr Milewski, and Kurt Sassmannshaus at the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music, Kathryn Lucktenberg at the University of Oregon, and with members of the Emerson and Tokyo String Quartets.
He is the founder of virtuosity.online, an international online learning platform connecting professional musicians, university faculty, studio teachers, and students of all levels throughout the world. Maintaining a Portland-based and online private teaching studio, his students include prizewinners of international competitions, soloists, chamber musicians, and professional orchestra musicians throughout Australia, Europe, New Zealand, and the United States.