J. Cameron Law, composer with Grand Mesa Strings.

J. Cameron Law

J. Cameron Law is an award-winning educator, cellist, conductor, and composer. He recently retired after a 29-year career as Director of Orchestras at Grand Junction High School and West Middle School.

Mr. Law is in his 30th season as the Principal Cellist of the Grand Junction Symphony. He was the cellist with Trio de las Americas, formerly the Mesa State College Faculty Piano Trio, performed for six seasons with the Crested Butte Summer Music Festival, and is the cello instructor at Colorado Mesa University. His private cello students have completed music degrees at such prestigious institutions as the Hart School of Music, Indiana University, and the Berklee College of Music.

Mr. Law has conducted the Grand Junction Symphony, the Colorado All-State Orchestra, the New Mexico All-State Orchestra, the University of Wyoming's Festival of Strings, the Fort Lewis College Honors Orchestra, the Colorado Mesa University Orchestra, the High Desert Light Opera Orchestra, the Colorado State University Rocky Mountain Summer Music Camp Orchestra, and the University of Colorado Summer Musicworks Orchestra.

His orchestras at Grand Junction High School performed six times at the Colorado Music Educators Association Annual Clinic and Conference, and they performed in 2009 at Alice Tully Hall in New York's Lincoln Center.

Additionally, Mr. Law served for 20 years as the Camp Director for the CASTA Middle School String Camp and is a Past President of the Colorado Chapter of the American String Teachers Association.

In 1999 he was presented with the Grand Junction Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Educator Award, and in 2002 he was named the ASTA Colorado String Teacher of the Year and received the Sylvan Excellence in Education Award. In 2020, he was honored with the Colorado ASTA Lifetime Service Award, and in 2021 Mr. Law was inducted into the Colorado Music Educators Association Hall of Fame.

He has worked as a clinician and adjudicator throughout Colorado, as well as in Utah, New Mexico, Wyoming, New York, Hawaii, and North Dakota. Mr. Law has served on the Colorado All-State Orchestra Advisory Board and the Colorado High School Activities Association State Music Advisory Board, and he was the founding advisor for the Grand Junction High School Tri-M Chapter

Mr. Law is currently the String Editor for Grand Mesa Strings. His compositions and arrangements appear on several state lists, as Editor's Choices in the Pepper Music Catalog, and have been performed at the Midwest Conference in Chicago. His work Sinapu was premiered by the Grandview High School Orchestra at the 2015 National ASTA Conference in Salt Lake City.

Mr. Law spends his summers as the Program Director for the Road Scholar Program at the Aspen Music Festival. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Cello Performance with University Honors and Academic Distinction from Colorado State University, and a Master's Degree in Cello Performance and Teacher Certification from the University of Michigan, where he studied with Jeffrey Solow and Robert Culver. He has two grown children (Lindsye and Eric), and a grandchild (Marky D the Mini Maestro). He and his terrier Patsy Cline enjoy all the outdoor activities Western Colorado has to offer.