Cellist Lawrence Stomberg enjoys a wide ranging career as soloist, chamber musician and pedagogue. As a student of Shirley Trepel at Rice University, he graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Music degree, and continued his studies with Timothy Eddy, receiving his Masters and Doctor of Musical Arts Degrees at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. As a member of the Serafin String Quartet, he performs at venues across the country, and has also performed as soloist and chamber musician at numerous music festivals, including the Tanglewood Music Center, Sarasota Music Festival, Texas Music Festival, Kneisel Hall Festival, and the Banff Centre for the Arts; he is currently on the cello faculty at the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, North Carolina. Stomberg was also a founding member of the piano trios Trilogy and the Johannes Trio as well as the mixed ensemble Brightmusic.

In October of 1999, he made his New York recital debut at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, a performance that was hailed in Strings Magazine for its "style and elegance" and "lyrical expressiveness". As a committed performer of contemporary music, Stomberg has been involved with world premiere concerts at New York's Miller Theater and Merkin Hall. In 2000, he released a debut compact disc of solo contemporary music entitled The American Cello, and is presenting an All-American solo program in venues across the United States and China in the fall of 2006. As soloist and with the Serafin Quartet, he has recently premiered and will be premiering commissioned works by American composers Roger Zahab, Paul Siskind, Richard Belcastro and David Langanella. He served as Assistant Principal Cellist in the Oklahoma City Philharmonic from 2002 until 2004, after four years as a member of the Tulsa Philharmonic.  An active and dedicated pedagogue, Stomberg served on the faculties at Truman State University in Missouri and Oklahoma State University before joining the music faculty at the University of Delaware in 2004. He lives in Delaware with his wife, cellist Jennifer Crowell Stomberg, and their three children.