【Cello
Master Class】
主講人：Paul Katz(新英格蘭音樂院大提琴教授)
日期:2018年10月25日(四)
時間:18:00~19:15
地點:北藝大音樂二館M2601
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R.Schumann: Cello Concerto in a
minor op.129 mov. I Nicht zu schnell
Cello張心維 Hsin-Wei, Chang
Piano蔡巧儀 Chiao-Yi Tsai
A.Dvorak: Cello Concerto
in b minor mvt.1 Allegro
Cello吳玟錤 Wen-Chi ,Wu
Piano 陳美禔Mei-Ti, Chen
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.
