The 27th Annual Music
Festival at Walnut Hill
胡桃山音樂營
July 19 to August 12, 2018
Concerts
and Master Classes
Admission free.
Suggested Donation $5 at door
Monday, August 6, 2018, 3-5 PM
at
Boswell Recital Hall
Paul Katz
cello master
class
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~Program~
Antonin
Dvorak (1841-1904) : Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104
III Allegro moderato
Shijie Ma,
cello
Dailin Zeng, piano
Edouard Lalo (1823-1892): Cello Concerto in D minor
I Prelude. Lento - Allegro maestoso
Yu-Ling Liao, cello
Yinfei Wang, piano
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) : String Quintet No. 3 in E-flat
Major, Op. 97
I Allegro non tanto
Chih-Min Chan, violin
Melanie Chang, violin
Melody Cheng, viola
Yi-Yun Liu, viola
Jessie Jie-Sin Chen, cello
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Steinway piano provided by M. Steinert &
Sons
Meet The Artists |
Paul Katz, Cello
Awards & Recognition :
Founding cellist, Cleveland Quartet
Grammy Award for farewell album (1996), 11 Grammy nominations
CBS Sunday Morning, NBC's Today Show, The Grammy Awards show
Chevalier du Violoncelle, from Eva Janzer Memorial Cello Center
at Indiana University
Richard M. Bogomolny National Service Award
Artist-Teacher of the Year 2003 from American String Teachers'
Association
President, Chamber Music America for six years
Mentored prize winning quartets: Jupiter, Parker, Kuss, Ariel,
Meliora, Ying etc.
Paul
Katz is known to concertgoers the world over as cellist of the
Cleveland Quartet, which, during an international career of 26
years, made more than 2,500 appearances on four continents. As a
member of this celebrated ensemble from 1969 to 1995, Katz
performed at the White House and on many television shows,
including "CBS Sunday Morning," NBC's "Today Show," "The Grammy
Awards" (the first classical musicians to appear on that show),
and in "In The Mainstream The Cleveland Quartet," a one-hour
documentary televised across the U.S. and Canada.
Katz has received many honors, the most recent including the
"Chevalier du Violoncelle," awarded by the Eva Janzer Memorial
Cello Center at Indiana University for distinguished
achievements and contributions to the world of cello playing and
teaching; The Richard M. Bogomolny National Service Award,
Chamber Music America's highest honor, awarded for a lifetime of
distinguished service in the field of chamber music; an Honorary
Doctorate of Musical Arts from Albright College; and the
American String Teacher's Association "Artist-Teacher of the
Year 2003." Katz is a passionate spokesperson for chamber music
the world over, and served for six years as President of Chamber
Music America. As an author, he has appeared in numerous
publications and wrote the liner notes for the Cleveland
Quartet's three-volume set of the complete Beethoven Quartets on
RCA Red Seal.
In 2011, declaring that "our art is passed from one generation
to the next, not by books but by mentoring," Katz launched
CelloBello, a website designed to connect cellists of all ages
and performance levels. Among the site's resources are "Cello
Lessons," consisting of footage filmed in Katz's studio with NEC
students; "Legacy" videos from Katz's own mentors; and a blog
coauthored by more than a dozen prominent cellists. Through this
medium, Katz is digitizing his own life experience as a student,
teacher, and artist of his instrument.
Katz has appeared as soloist in New York, Cleveland, Toronto,
Detroit, Los Angeles, and other cities throughout North America.
He was a student of Gregor Piatigorsky, Janos Starker, Bernard
Greenhouse, Gabor Rejto and Leonard Rose. In 1962, he was
selected nationally to play in the historic Pablo Casals
masterclass in Berkeley, California. He was a prizewinner in the
Munich and Geneva Competitions and for three summers, he was a
participant at the Marlboro Music Festival.
Katz's recordings include Dohnanyi's Cello Sonata for ProArte
Records, and the Cleveland Quartet's recording on Sony Classical
of the Schubert two-cello quintet with Yo-Yo Ma. The Cleveland
Quartet has nearly 70 recordings to its credit on RCA Victor,
Telarc International, Sony, Philips and ProArte. These recording
have earned many distinctions including the all-time best
selling chamber music release of Japan, 11 Grammy nominations,
Grammy Awards for Best Chamber Music Recording and Best Recorded
Contemporary Composition in 1996, and "Best of the Year" awards
from Time magazine and Stereo Review.
In September of 2001, Paul Katz joined the New England
Conservatory faculty, following five years at Rice University in
Houston, and twenty years of teaching at the Eastman School of
Music. At NEC, in addition to his studio, seminar teaching and
other chamber music coaching, and coaching the NEC Chamber
Orchestra, he is founder of the Professional String Quartet
Training Program. To date, this program has enrolled six
emerging quartets, all of which are now experiencing
considerable professional success, including a Grammy award for
the Parker Quartet's 2010 Ligeti CD.
Katz has mentored many of the fine young string quartets on the
world's stages today including the Ariel, Biava, Cavani,
Chester, Harlem, Jupiter, Kuss, Lafayette, Maia, Meliora,
Parker, T'ang, and Ying Quartets. One of America's most sought
after cello teachers, his cello students, in addition to
membership in many of the above quartets, have achieved
international careers with solo CDs on Decca, EMI, Channel
Classics and Sony Classical, have occupied positions in many of
the world's major orchestras including principal chairs as far
away as Oslo, Norway and Osaka, Japan, and are members of many
American symphony orchestras such as Buffalo, Chicago,
Cleveland, National Symphony, Pittsburgh, Rochester, and St.
Louis.
Katz has taught at many of the major summer music programs
including twenty years at the Aspen Festival, the Yale Summer
School of Chamber Music, the Perlman Music Program, the
Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival in Germany, ProQuartet in
France, Domaine Forget, Orford, and the Banff Center for the
Arts in Canada, the Steans Institute of The Ravinia Festival,
and is a Director of the Shouse Artist Institute of the Great
Lakes Chamber Festival. His hundreds of masterclasses worldwide
include many of the major music schools of North and South
America, Europe, Israel, Japan and China. Katz frequently sits
on the juries of international cello and chamber music
competitions, most recently the Leonard Rose International Cello
Competition, and the international string quartet competitions
of Banff, London, Munich, Graz and Geneva.
Paul Katz plays an Andrea Guarneri cello dated 1669.
B.M., University of Southern California; M.M., Manhattan
School of Music; Hon. D.M.A. Albright College. Studies with
Gregor Piatigorsky, Janos Starker, Bernard Greenhouse, Leonard
Rose, and Gabor Rejto. Recordings on ProArte, RCA Victor, Telarc,
Sony, and Philips. Former faculty of Rice University, Eastman
School of Music. |
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Thank you
for your generous contribution to
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
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中華表演藝術基金會
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
Lincoln, Massachusetts
updated 2018 |
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