Paige Stockley Lerner

Adjunct Instructor

Cello

pstockley@cornish.edu

An avid performer of contemporary music, cellist Paige Stockley Lerner is the founder of the Saint Helens String Quartet, a quartet devoted exclusively to performing the music of the 20th century. The quartet has premiered numerous new works at Benaroya Hall, and has participated in the Seattle Symphony’s “Made in America” and “Bridging the 48th Parallel: Music from Central Europe“ festivals. With noted director Nick Schwartz Hall, the quartet also created a theatre piece about the Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff, premiered at Cornish in 2007 and presented by the Seattle Symphony that same year. Currently, as artists–in–residents at the Jack Straw Foundation, the quartet is recording their first CD featuring the works of Peter Schickele, Philip Glass, and Ken Benshoof.

In addition to her quartet work, Stockley Lerner also performs regularly with the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra, the Auburn Symphony, and with the Seattle Symphony records soundtracks for movies and television. She is also the artistic director of the “Second Sundays in Snohomish”series and frequently participates in the Seattle Chamber Music Society’s public school outreach program.

A former student of Toby Saks, Valentin Hirsu, Michael Haber, and Ardyth Alton, Stockley Lerner earned a B.A. in Political Science and English from the University of Washington and her M.M. degree at the Manhattan School of Music. She also spent a year in Krakow and Prague on a European Mozart Academy fellowship. She has been a member of orchestras in Connecticut, Castille y Leon, Spain, and Mexico City, as well as a freelance cellist in New York City.