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PAUL NEUBAUER'S BIO

Violist Paul Neubauer‘s exceptional musicality and effortless playing led the New York Times to call him “a master musician”. In 2016 he was appointed Artistic Director of the Mostly Music series in New Jersey. This season he will be featured in a Live from Lincoln Center broadcast with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He also premieres a new work for viola and piano by Liliya Ugay, performs with his trio with soprano Susanna Phillips and pianist Anne-Marie McDermott which performs a wide range of repertoire including salon style songs for voice, viola and piano, and appears as soloist with orchestras. His recording of the Aaron Kernis Viola Concerto with the Royal Northern Sinfonia, a work he premiered with the St. Paul Chamber, Los Angeles Chamber, and Idyllwild Arts orchestras and the Chautauqua Symphony will be released on Signum Records.

Appointed principal violist of the New York Philharmonic at age 21, a position he held for six years, he has appeared as soloist with over 100 orchestras including the New York, Los Angeles, Helsinki and Hong Kong philharmonics; National, St. Louis, Detroit, Dallas, San Francisco, and Bournemouth symphonies; and Santa Cecilia, English Chamber, National Symphony (Taiwan), and Beethovenhalle orchestras. He has premiered viola concertos by Béla Bartók (revised version of Viola Concerto), Joel Phillip Friedman, Rinehold Glière, Gordon Jacob, Aaron Jay Kernis, Henri Lazarof, Detlev Müller-Siemens, David Ott, Krzysztof Penderecki, Tobias Picker, Robert Suter, and Joan Tower, and has been featured on CBS’s Sunday Morning, A Prairie Home Companion, and in Strad, Strings, and People magazines.

A two-time Grammy nominee, he recorded works by Schumann with Ms. McDermott as well as numerous pieces that were composed for him: Joan Tower’s Purple Rhapsody for viola and orchestra (with Timothy Russsell and the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra), and Wild Purple for solo viola; Viola Rhapsody, a concerto by Henri Lazarof; and Soul Garden for viola and chamber ensemble by Derek Bermel. His recording of the Walton Viola Concerto was recently re-released on Decca. He has also recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, RCA Red Seal and Sony Classical and in 2016, he released a solo album of music recorded at Music@Menlo.

Neubauer has collaborated with Andre Watts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; with Joshua Bell and Steven Isserlis at London’s Wigmore and Queen Elizabeth Hall’s; and with Pinchas Zukerman, James Galway, Vladimir Spivakov and Alicia de Larrocha at the Mostly Mozart Festival.  He has also appeared with the Emerson, Shanghai, Juilliard, Cleveland, Miró, Fine Arts, Orion, Calder, Borromeo, Miami, and Brentano quartets. He has performed at the festivals of Verbier, Ravinia, Stavanger, Hollywood Bowl, Lincoln Center, Mostly Mozart, and Marlboro and was an Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient and the first prizewinner of the Whitaker, D’Angelo and Lionel Tertis International Competitions.

He is on the faculty of The Juilliard School and Mannes College and performs with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Mr. Neubauer was born in Los Angeles and currently lives in New York City.