Mark Kosower

Cello

Mark Kosower is one of the outstanding and distinguished cellists of his generation. Hailed by musicians and critics alike for his extraordinary instrumental mastery, musical integrity, and purity of _expression he is the recipient of a 2002 Avery Fisher Career Grant awarded to young artists by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Mr. Kosower has performed internationally as soloist with the Hong Kong, Kansai, and Kwa-Zulu Natal philharmonics, the China National Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, the Orchestre de Paris, and the Orquestra Sinfộnica Brasileira. He has also appeared as guest soloist with orchestras throughout the United States including the Buffalo Philharmonic as well as the symphony orchestras of Detroit, Florida, Houston, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oregon, Phoenix, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra among many others. Mr. Kosower has collaborated with many of today’s prominent conductors including Christoph Eschenbach, Joanne Falletta, Nicholas McGegan, Anton Nanut, Stefan Sanderling, Gerard Schwarz, Hugh Wolff, and James DePreist including a recording of the Walton Concerto with the Oregon Symphony for Delos.

As a recitalist Mr Kosower has performed at the Kennedy Center, on the Great Performers Series at Lincoln Center, and in the cities of Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, Seoul, and Washington DC. An active chamber musician he was selected to be a Chamber Music Two member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and has performed at numerous chamber music societies and festivals throughout the United States.

Born into a family of cellists Mr. Kosower began his musical studies at the age of 1 ½ with his father. In 1986 he began traveling and performing with his father and sister as the Dolce Trio, an association that would last for ten years. He later studied with and served as a teaching assistant to both Janos Starker at Indiana University and Joel Krosnick at the Juilliard School. A dedicated teacher he is currently Professor of Cello and Chamber Music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.