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Mark Kosower
is quickly emerging as one of the leading cellists
of his generation. He is the distinguished recipient
of a 2002 Avery Fisher Career Grant awarded to
young artists by Lincoln Center for the Performing
Arts. He recently performed debut recitals at
the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in
Washington DC, Lincoln Center for the Performing
Arts in New York, Kumho Art Hall in Seoul, Korea,
and at the Salão Leopoldo Miguez in Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil. Highlights of the 2003-04
season include debut performances as soloist with
Gerard Schwarz and the Hong Kong Philharmonic,
James Judd and the China National Symphony Orchestra
in Beijing, Robert Maxym and the KwaZulu Natal
Philharmonic in Durban, South Africa and appearances
with the Oregon Symphony, the North Carolina Symphony,
the Santa Barbara Symphony, and the Florida Orchestra.
During the upcoming 2004-05 season Mr. Kosower
will be guest soloist with Gerard Schwarz and
the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, James
DePreist and the Phoenix Symphony, the Alabama
Symphony, the Buffalo Philharmonic, and the Indianapolis
Symphony among others. In addition Mr. Kosower
will appear as guest artist at the International
Cello Festival in Kobe, Japan and at the X International
Cello Encounter in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Mr. Kosower is a member of Chamber Music Society
Two at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
and is affiliated with ASTRAL Artistic Services
in Philadelphia. Recent and upcoming festival
engagements include both solo and chamber music
performances at such esteemed music festivals
as the Aspen Music Festival, the Brevard Music
Festival, the Delaware Chamber Music Festival,
the Park City International Music Festival, the
Peninsula Music Festival, the San Luis Obispo
Mozart Festival, and the Sitka Summer Music Festival.
Past performances include solo appearances with
the Detroit Symphony, the Florida Philharmonic,
the Houston Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony,
the Juilliard Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony,
the Minnesota Orchestra, the Oregon Symphony,
and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and recitals
in Chicago, Cinncinati, Detroit, Milwaukee, New
York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, St. Paul, and
on Ravinia’s “Rising Stars Series.”
Mr. Kosower has performed in Europe as well with
performances at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris,
the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, the Komische Oper
in Berlin, and at the Kronberg Cello Festival.
He has soloed with several major European orchestras
as well including the Orchestre de Paris.
Mr. Kosower has won many awards including Grand
Prize in the Seventh Irving Klein International
String Competition where he became the first winner
in the competition’s history to gain a unanimous
vote by the nine judges. In 1994 Kosower won the
prestigious WAMSO Young Artist Competition where
he was again the unanimous winner of the Grand
Prize. Mr. Kosower was only the third person to
have been chosen for this award by the Music Director
of the Minnesota Orchestra in 38 years. More recently,
Mr. Kosower won the 2000 Juilliard Cello Concerto
Competition and was a top prize winner in the
7th Concours Rostropovich where he also was awarded
a special prize for best interpretation of the
commissioned work.
Mr. Kosower holds a Bachelor’s Degree and
an Artist Diploma from Indiana University and
a Masters Degree and second Artist Diploma from
the Juilliard School. He was a four-year scholarship
student at both institutions. Mr. Kosower was
Assistant to Janos Starker while studying at Indiana
University and is currently Assistant Faculty
to Joel Krosnick at the Juilliard School.
General Management
Columbia Artists Management LLC
165 West 57th Street; New York, NY 10019
Personal Representation: Ronald S. Merlino
(212) 841-9560 – telephone
(212) 841-9552 – fax
email- rmerlino@cami.com
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