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.
Thank you for
your generous contribution to
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