Paul Kantor, violin with the Chicago Philharmonic play works of Bolcom & Welcher

Music of William Bolcom and Dan Welcher
Paul Kantor, violin
Since 1978, Paul Kantor has combined a performance career with an intense commitment to teaching. He has served as concertmaster of six orchestral ensembles including the New Haven Symphony, the Aspen Chamber Symphony, the Aspen Festival Orchestra and the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. An avid chamber music devotee, he has performed extensively as a member of the New York, Lenox and New Haven String Quartets, the Berkshire Chamber players, National Musical Arts and the Michigan Chamber Players. In the summer of 1994, Mr. Kantor gave the world premiere performance of Dan Welcher’s Violin Concerto, commissioned by the Aspen Music Festival in honor of his teacher and mentor, Dorothy DeLay.

Mr. Kantor can be heard on three recordings of chamber music of the twentieth century on C.R.I., Delos and Mark Records. Recognized as one of the principal violin pedagogues of his generation, Mr. Kantor held concurrent appointments at the Yale University School of Music, the New England Conservatory, and the Juilliard School. He spends his summers as an artist/faculty member at the Aspen Music Festival & School. For fourteen years, Mr. Kantor taught at the University of Michigan School of Music in Ann Arbor. In 2002 he was appointed to the faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music as Eleanor H. Biggs Distinguished Professor of Violin.