Paul Katz

{{short description|American cellist}} '''Paul Katz''' is an American cellist, who was a member of the Cleveland Quartet from 1969 to 1995.<ref name=Millet>Katherine Millett "Cellist Paul Katz Puts His Students on Equal Footing" ''Strings'' August/Sept, 2007 {{cite web |url=http://www.allthingsstrings.com/News/Interviews-Profiles/Cellist-Paul-Katz-Puts-His-Students-on-Equal-Footing |title=Cellist Paul Katz Puts His Students on Equal Footing / Interviews & Profiles / News / All Things Strings |accessdate=2013-01-01 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130604170506/http://www.allthingsstrings.com/News/Interviews-Profiles/Cellist-Paul-Katz-Puts-His-Students-on-Equal-Footing |archivedate=2013-06-04 }}</ref><ref name=hurt /> He and his wife, pianist Pei-Shan Lee, reside in Boston and teach at the New England Conservatory of Music.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cellobello.com/blog/index.php/paul-katz-2/ |title=Paul Katz {{!}} CelloBello Blog |website=cellobello.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120624042726/http://cellobello.com/blog/index.php/paul-katz-2/ |archive-date=2012-06-24}} </ref>

==Education== Katz received a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Southern California School of Music and a Master of Music from the Manhattan School of Music. He studied with Gregor Piatigorsky, János Starker, Bernard Greenhouse, Leonard Rose, and Gábor Rejtő.<ref name=Janof>[http://www.cello.org/Newsletter/Articles/katz/katz.htm Tim Janof, Internet Chamber Society interview]</ref><ref name=nec /><ref>[http://www.allthingsstrings.com/News/News/Cellists-Paul-Katz-Paul-Watkins-Honored "Paul Katz: Master Collaborator" ''Strings Magazine,''Aug/Sept 2007] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130604050629/http://www.allthingsstrings.com/News/News/Cellists-Paul-Katz-Paul-Watkins-Honored |date=2013-06-04 }}</ref>

==Career== Since 2001 Katz has taught at the New England Conservatory<ref name=nec>[http://necmusic.edu/faculty/paul-katz?lid=2&sid=3 Official web page at New England Conservatory]</ref><ref name=Cahill>Greg Cahill "Cellist Paul Katz Heads to New England Conservatory: Joins Strings and Chamber Music faculties" ''Strings'' May–June 2001 {{cite web |url=http://www.allthingsstrings.com/News/News/Cellist-Paul-Katz-Heads-to-New-England-Conservatory |title=Cellist Paul Katz Heads to New England Conservatory / News / News / All Things Strings |accessdate=2013-01-01 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130509074137/http://www.allthingsstrings.com/News/News/Cellist-Paul-Katz-Heads-to-New-England-Conservatory |archivedate=2013-05-09 }}</ref> He had been professor of cello and chamber music at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University and the Eastman School of Music.<ref name=Cahill /> His recordings with the Cleveland Quartet, have received Grammy awards for Best Chamber Music Recording and also for Best Recorded Contemporary Composition in 1996.<ref name=hurt>Harry Hurt, "A slow route to Being Maestro" New York Times Sept 5, 2008 [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/business/06pursuits.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0]</ref>

He has also played as soloist with many groups, including the Pacifica Quartet,<ref>[http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/02/020128.pacifica.shtml University of Chicago New, Jan. 28, 2002]</ref> the Ariel Quartet, and the Jupiter Quartet.

He serves on the National Advisory Board of the Fischoff National Chamber Music Association.<ref>Fischoff National Chamber Music Association Board and National Advisory Council [http://www.fischoff.org/about/board-national-advisory-council/ ]</ref> Paul Katz is the founder of CelloBello - an online cello resource center.

==Honors== Katz holds an Honorary D.M.A.{{clarify|date=June 2016}} from Albright College. He received the Chevalier du Violoncelle from the Eva Janzer Memorial Cello Center of Indiana University in 2003.<ref>[http://www.allthingsstrings.com/News/News/Cellists-Paul-Katz-Paul-Watkins-Honored ''Strings''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130604050629/http://www.allthingsstrings.com/News/News/Cellists-Paul-Katz-Paul-Watkins-Honored |date=2013-06-04 }}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *[http://necmusic.edu/faculty/paul-katz?lid=2&sid=3 New England Conservatory biography] *[http://www.clevelandquartet.com/ Cleveland Quartet homepage]

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