Paul Coletti
Guest Artist – Viola
Paul Coletti is a composer, performer, recording artist and teacher. His compositions are performed throughout the world, dedicated to the viola repertoire. He has given over 1500 concerts in solo and chamber music settings, and recorded over 30 CD’s, some of which won prestigious international awards. Hyperion’s ‘English music for viola’ featuring the music of Rebecca Clarke, was named in the BBC’S best 100 cd’s of all time.
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As a soloist, Coletti has performed in Edinburgh, London, Paris, New York, Buenos Aires, in Shanghai, Beijing, Melbourne, Auckland, Leipzig, Assisi, Salzburg, Hannover, and appearances with orchestras such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the BBC, NHK in Japan, at the Sydney Opera House, Queen Elizabeth Hall London, Berlin Philharmonie, Kennedy Center, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Suntory Hall, and in Chicago where he performed on Paganini's legendary Stradivarius viola. Paul Coletti's full conducting debut was in an all Mozart program with the New Japan Philharmonic orchestra in Tokyo.
As a professor, he has served as head of strings at the University of Washington, head of chamber music at UCLA, at the Menuhin Academy in Switzerland, and at Colburn, Peabody and the University of Missouri at Kansas City.