PAUL NEUBAUER's exceptional musicality and effortless playing distinguish him as one of this generation's quintessential artists.  Balancing a solo career with performances as an Artist of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Neubauer at age 21 was the youngest principal string player in the New York Philharmonic's history.  He is the Orchestra and Chamber Music Director of the OK Mozart Festival in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.

  This season, he continues to perform “Purple Rhapsody” by Joan Tower.  Seven orchestras commissioned this Viola Concerto for Neubauer with a grant from the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress. He has appeared with over 100 orchestras throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, including the New York, Los Angeles, Helsinki and Royal Liverpool Philharmonics, National, St. Louis, Detroit, Dallas, San Francisco and Bournemouth Symphonies, Santa Cecilia and English Chamber and Beethovenhalle Orchestras.  He gave the world premiere of the revised Bartók Viola Concerto as well as Concertos by Penderecki, Picker, Jacob, Lazarof, Suter, Müller-Siemens, Ott and Friedman.

Mr. Neubauer was an Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient and the first prizewinner of the Whitaker, D'Angelo and Lionel Tertis International Competitions. He is on the faculty of The Juilliard School.