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Dana Lawson

Viola

Member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 2004

Violist Dana Lawson is a Massachusetts native.

She began violin studies at the age of 5 and took up the viola at 15. After graduating from Harvard College with a cum laude degree in Modern European History, she attended The Juilliard School, where she received her Master’s degree in 2003. In Boston, she studied viola and chamber music with James Dunham and Robert Levin.

At Juilliard, she studied with Misha Amory and Heidi Castleman. During her summers, she attended the Aspen, Taos, and Tanglewood music festivals. She was a member of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra before joining the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2004. She is the mother of three wonderful daughters.

Past Events

Members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic
mar  mar 17, 2026  8pm

Mozart & Benavides

Chamber Music with Members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic

Chamber Music
mar  feb 10, 2026  8pm

Lunar New Year

Chamber Music with Members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic

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mar  nov 18, 2025  8pm

Brahms Strings

Chamber Music with Members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic

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mar  abr 15, 2025  8pm

Shostakovich and Ravel

Members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic
mar  dic 3, 2024  8pm

Intimate Schoenberg

Schoenberg at 150 Festival

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mar  may 7, 2024  8pm

Beethoven and Schumann

Chamber Music with the LA Phil

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mar  abr 2, 2024  8pm

Debussy, Ewald & Françaix

Chamber Music with the LA Phil

Members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic
mar  nov 28, 2023  8pm

Dvořák and Kodály

Chamber Music with the LA Phil

Members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic
mar  nov 7, 2023  8pm

Pereira, Washington, and Mozart

Chamber Music with the LA Phil
California Festival

Members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic
mar  oct 10, 2023  8pm

Sounds of Italy and Spain

Chamber Music with the LA Phil

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mar  abr 18, 2023  8pm

Mozart & Brahms

featuring Sunwook Kim

Members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic
mar  mar 28, 2023  8pm

Tchaikovsky and Wagner

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mar 16–17, 2023

Symphonies for Schools:
Find Your Voice with Kris Bowers

Secondary Schools Program

Chamber Music
mar  feb 28, 2023  8pm

Schubert and Prokofiev

LA Phil musicians
mar  oct 4, 2022  8pm

Pan-American Chamber Music

Pan-American Music Initiative

Chamber Music – May
mar  abr 5, 2022  8pm

Chamber Music: On Motherhood

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mar  nov 23, 2021  8pm

Quartets: Haydn, Frank, and Dvořák

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mar  feb 13, 2018  8pm

All-Beethoven

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