Paul Coletti

{{short description|Scottish chamber musician (born 1959)}} {{BLP sources|date=April 2009}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}}

'''Paul Coletti''' (born 1959 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish viola soloist and chamber musician. He has performed throughout the world, making solo appearances at the Sydney Opera House, Queen Elizabeth Hall (London), and Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires, Argentina). He has performed Béla Bartók's Viola Concerto with Yehudi Menuhin conducting and has recorded Robert Schumann's ''Märchenbilder'' and Rebecca Clarke's Sonata for Viola, to some acclaim.<ref name="Morin2002">{{cite book|last=Morin|first=Alexander J.|title=Classical Music: the Listener's Companion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ayT5T59ckzIC&pg=PA829|year=2002|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=978-0-87930-638-0|page=829}}</ref>

==Biography== Coletti was born in 1959 in Edinburgh, Scotland, to Italian parents. He began playing viola from the age of eight, while at St Mary's York Lane Primary School, and studied at the Royal Scottish Academy,<ref name="Page">{{cite web|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E01E1DB1639F933A05753C1A965948260|title=Debuts in Review|last=Page|first=Tim|date=30 October 1983|work=The New York Times|accessdate=21 December 2010}}</ref> the International Menuhin Music Academy,<ref name="Page" /> and the Juilliard School. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, violist Gina Warnick, and their two daughters, and teaches viola and chamber music at the Colburn Conservatory.{{Citation needed|date=October 2023}}

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