 Ralph Kirshbaum
Gregor Piatigorsky Chair in Violoncello
Professor of Cello
kirshconcerts@aol.com
The distinguished career of Texas-born Ralph Kirshbaum, Gregor Piatigorsky Chair in Violoncello, encompasses the worlds of solo performance, chamber music and recording and clearly places him in “...the highest echelon of today's cellists” (Los Angeles Times).
Ralph Kirshbaum has appeared with many of the world’s great orchestras and conductors. These have included Boston Symphony (Levine), Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Mehta), Cleveland Orchestra (Dohnanyi), San Francisco Symphony (Blomstedt), Pittsburgh Symphony (Lutoslawski), London Symphony (Sir Colin Davis), Philharmonia (Slatkin), BBC Symphony (Andrew Davis), the Orchestre de Paris (Bychkov) and the Israel Philharmonic (Masur), among others.
In 1988, Mr. Kirshbaum founded and became artistic director of the RNCM Manchester International Cello Festival. The festival gathered together his many friends amongst the world’s great cellists and has been featured in numerous national and international publications such as Time magazine, the Strad magazine, The New York Times and The Times (UK). The ninth and final festival took place from May 2-6, 2007. Entitled “From Britten to Britain,” this festival featured 36 cellists from 20 different countries. For the year 2007, Ralph Kirshbaum and the RNCM Cello Festival were awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Music Award for Concert Series and Festivals. The Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards are the UK’s most prestigious awards for live classical music.
Ralph Kirshbaum appears regularly at important international festivals such as Edinburgh, Bath, Verbier, Lucerne, Aspen, La Jolla, Santa Fe, Music@Menlo, Ravinia and New York’s Mostly Mozart.
In addition to Thornton School’s Piatigorsky Chair, Mr. Kirshbaum is the International Chair of Cello at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, and gives annual master classes at The International Musician's Seminar in Prussia Cove, the London Masterclasses and throughout the world. He has served on the U.S. President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities for the past five years and is honorary president of the London Cello Society.
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 Andrew Shulman
Adjunct Associate Professor of Strings
(213) 740-7704 phone
uscramohall@gmail.com
Andrew Shulman, principal cellist with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, was the first British winner of the United States Piatigorsky Artist Award. Shulman's careers as cellist and conductor have taken him all over the world. He has directed and performed all the major cello concertos with the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the City of Birmingham Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic , the Utah Symphony, the Singapore Symphony and orchestras all over Europe, the U.S., and Asia, as well as giving recitals in venues such as London's Wigmore Hall, the Royal Palace in Stockholm, Buckingham Palace, the Royal Festival Hall, and the Hollywood Bowl.
Born into a family of professional musicians, Shulman studied cello and composition at the Royal Academy and the Royal College of Music in London. After winning the major cello prizes there, he was appointed solo cello of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and was then offered first chair with London's Philharmonia Orchestra at age 22 by conductor Riccardo Muti. He has performed as soloist with Sir Simon Rattle, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Semyon Bychcov, Franz Welser-Möst, and Esa-Pekka Salonen, among others. He has recorded more than 25 CDs as cellist of the Britten Quartet for EMI Records, as well as performances of Vivaldi's cello concertos for Virgin Classics, Janacek's Pohadka for EMI, cello works by Delius (a world premiere recording), and a solo turn on Elton John's Candle in the Wind 1997, a tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales, the highest selling single of all time.
Shulman was bestowed an Honorary RCM by The Queen Mother in 1986, and subsequently became a professor at the historic Royal College of Music in London. In 1990 he won the prestigious Piatigorsky Artist Award at the New England Conservatory in Boston. Since moving to Los Angeles he has led classes at the USC Thornton School of Music, UCLA , and the Los Angeles Music Center. He has conducted extensively in the U.S. and Europe, leading performances of symphonies of Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, Haydn, Mahler, Mozart, Sibelius, and Tchaikovsky, and major orchestral works by Bartók, Debussy, Elgar, Holst, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Strauss, and Stravinsky. He is a regular guest conductor with orchestras including the Haydn Chamber Orchestra, the Brandon Hill Chamber Orchestra, the Royal College of Music Symphony Orchestra, the Royal College of Music Chamber Orchestra, and the RCM String Ensemble, as well as directing the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and the London Chamber Orchestra in concerto performances from the solo cello chair. He has also conducted operas including Mozart's Marriage of Figaro and Cosi Fan Tutte in successful new productions at the Theatre Royal, Bristol.
In 1999 he was appointed principal cello of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and also resumed his activities as one of the most sought-after solo cellists working in television and film music. At the end of 2002 he left the Philharmonic in order to expand his solo, chamber music, teaching, and conducting activities. In 2007 and 2008 he recorded three new cello concertos composed for him by Christopher Stone, Nathaniel Levisay, and Maria Newman. Shulman also composes, and recently premiered his own Smaller Music For Strings in the U.K., as well as collaborated with the legendary German rock/classical guitarist Uli Jon Roth in performances in Hollywood. In 2008 he was appointed principal cello of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and currently teaches at the USC Thornton School of Music. He and his family live in Santa Monica.
 Ben Hong
Adjunct Instructor Program:StringsDivision: Classical Performance and CompositionExpertise:Orchestral RepertoireInstrument:Cello Biography Cellist Ben Hong performs frequently as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician collaborating with such artists as Emanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman, Lynn Harrell, Janine Jansen, Lang Lang, Cho-Liang Lin, Bobby McFerrin, Christopher O’Riley, Sir Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen, the Shanghai String Quartet, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Lars Vogt and Long Yu. Los Angeles Philharmonic Assistant Principal Cellist since 1993, Hong has appeared as soloist with the LA PHIL and served as Acting Principal during the 2011-2012 season. Hong has appeared as soloist in Tan Dun’s Crouching Tiger Concerto both at the Hollywood Bowl with Long Yu conducting and with the San Diego Symphony with Tan Dun as conductor. |
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