Paul Neubauer

American violist Paul Neubauer has maintained a wide-ranging professional life encompassing orchestral performance, concerto appearances, teaching, and editorial work. His formative studies took place under Paul Doktor, Alan de Veritch, and William Primrose, after which he completed both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree at the Juilliard School. Immediately upon finishing his training, he joined the New York Philharmonic at twenty-one as its youngest-ever principal violist and remained in that post for six seasons. Appearances as soloist have taken him to leading orchestras on several continents, where he has introduced new concertos written for him by Joan Tower, Krzystof Penderecki, and Tobias Picker, in addition to presenting the revised edition of Béla Bartók’s Viola Concerto. In 1989 he was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant and joined the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; he has also directed the Mostly Music series artistically and served as music director of the OK Mozart Festival. On the faculty of the Juilliard School, Mannes College, and The New School of Music, he has guided the careers of violists Richard O’Neill, Scott Lee, Gilad Karni, and Che-Yen Chen. For the publishers Boosey & Hawkes, International Music Company, and Universal Edition he has prepared scholarly editions of viola repertoire.