 Natasha Brofsky
Natasha Brofsky has enjoyed a career in both the United States and Europe. As cellist of the Naumburg award winning Peabody Trio, she has performed on important chamber music series throughout the US, Canada and the United Kingdom, at venues including Wigmore Hall in London, Herbst Theater in San Francisco and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington. The trio has been heard on numerous radio broadcasts, including CBC, Radio Canada and WGBH. The trio has recorded on New World, CRI and Artek. Their recording of the Beethoven Op.70 Trios for Artek was hailed by The Strad as as "some of the most accomplished Beethoven playing I have heard in many a year..." Two more Beethoven Trios, Opus 1, have just been released on Artek. In addition to her work with the trio, Brofsky has performed as guest with numerous ensembles, including the Takács, Prazak, Cassatt and Norwegian Quartets. Upcoming performances include guest appearances with the Jupiter and Ying Quartets.
During nearly a decade in Europe, Brofsky held principal positions in the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra under Iona Brown. The Chamber Orchestra toured internationally, performing at the Proms in London, the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall. In addition she was a member of the Serapion Ensemble, performing with them in Germany and Austria, and the string trio, Opus 3, which performed throughout Norway for "Rikskonsertene", the Norwegian State Concert Agency. She recorded Olav Anton Thommessen's Concerto for cello and winds for Aurora Records, and was a regular participant at Open Chamber Music in Prussia Cove, England.
A sought after teacher, Brofsky has given masterclasses at San Francisco Conservatory, Peabody Conservatory, and Boston University, among others. She has taught at Barratt-Due's Institute in Oslo, the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Heifetz Institute. Since 2001, she has been on the faculty at the Yellow Barn Festival in Vermont. She joined the cello faculty of the New England Conservatory in 2004, and serves as assistant chair of strings.
She was awarded a Fulbright Grant to study in London with William Pleeth where she won the Muriel Taylor Cello Prize.
Bachelor of Music and Performer's Certificate , Eastman School. Master's Degree, Mannes College. Cello with Marion Feldman, Robert Sylvester, Paul Katz, and Timothy Eddy. Member of the Peabody Trio. Recordings on Aurora Records.
 Paul Katz
Violoncello; Chamber Music; Professional String Quartet Training Program
Paul Katz is known to concertgoers the world over as cellist of the Cleveland Quartet, which during an international career of 26 years, made more than 2,500 appearances on four continents. As a member of this celebrated ensemble from 1969 to 1995, Katz performed at the White House and on many television shows including "CBS Sunday Morning", NBC's "Today Show", "The Grammy Awards" (the first classical musicians to appear on that show), and in "In The Mainstream The Cleveland Quartet", a one-hour documentary televised across the U.S. and Canada.
Katz has received many honors, the most recent including the "Chevalier du Violoncelle", awarded by the Eva Janzer Memorial Cello Center at Indiana University for distinguished achievements and contributions to the world of cello playing and teaching; The Richard M. Bogomolny National Service Award, Chamber Music America's highest honor, awarded for a lifetime of distinguished service in the field of chamber music; an Honorary Doctorate of Musical Arts from Albright College; and the American String Teacher's Association "Artist-Teacher of the Year 2003". Katz is a passionate spokesperson for chamber music the world over, and served for six years as President of Chamber Music America. As an author, he has appeared in numerous publications and wrote the liner notes for the Cleveland Quartet's three-volume set of the complete Beethoven Quartets on RCA Red Seal.
Katz has appeared as soloist in New York, Cleveland, Toronto, Detroit, Los Angeles, and other cities throughout North America. He was a student of Gregor Piatigorsky, Janos Starker, Bernard Greenhouse, Gabor Rejto and Leonard Rose. In 1962, he was selected nationally to play in the historic Pablo Casals masterclass in Berkeley, California. He was a prizewinner in the Munich and Geneva Competitions and for three summers, he was a participant at the Marlboro Music Festival. His recordings include Dohnanyi's Cello Sonata for ProArte Records, and the Cleveland Quartet's recording on Sony Classical of the Schubert two-cello quintet with Yo-Yo Ma. The Cleveland Quartet has nearly 70 recordings to its credit on RCA Victor, Telarc International, Sony, Philips and ProArte. These recording have earned many distinctions including the all-time best selling chamber music release of Japan, 11 Grammy nominations, Grammy Awards for Best Chamber Music Recording and Best Recorded Contemporary Composition in 1996, and "Best of the Year" awards from Time magazine and Stereo Review.
In September of 2001, Paul Katz joined the New England Conservatory faculty, following five years at Rice University in Houston, and twenty years of teaching at the Eastman School of Music. At NEC, in addition to his studio and seminar teaching and other chamber music coaching, he founded the Professional String Quartet Training Program.
During spring 2009, Katz will also coach the NEC Chamber Orchestra. Katz has mentored many of the fine young string quartets on the world's stages today including the Biava, Cavani, Chester, Jupiter, Kuss, Lafayette, Maia, Meliora, T'ang, Ariel, Parker, and Ying Quartets. One of America's most sought after cello teachers, his cello students, in addition to membership in many of the above quartets, have achieved international careers with solo CDs on Decca, EMI, Channel Classics and Sony Classical, have occupied positions in many of the world's major orchestras including principal chairs as far away as Oslo, Norway and Osaka, Japan, and are members of many American symphony orchestras such as Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, National Symphony, Pittsburgh, Rochester, and St. Louis.
Katz has taught at many of the major summer music programs including twenty years at the Aspen Festival, the Yale Summer School of Chamber Music, the Perlman Music Program, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival in Germany, ProQuartet in France, Domaine Forget, Orford, and the Banff Center for the Arts in Canada, the Steans Institute of The Ravinia Festival, and is a Director of the Shouse Artist Institute of the Great Lakes Chamber Festival. His hundreds of masterclasses worldwide include many of the major music schools of North and South America, Europe, Israel, Japan and China. Katz frequently sits on the juries of international cello and chamber music competitions, most recently the Leonard Rose International Cello Competition, and the international string quartet competitions of Banff, London, Munich, Graz and Geneva.
Paul Katz plays an Andrea Guarneri cello dated 1669.
B.M., University of Southern California; M.M., Manhattan School of Music; Hon. D.M.A. Albright College. Studies with Gregor Piatigorsky, Janos Starker, Bernard Greenhouse, Leonard Rose, and Gabor Rejto. Recordings on ProArte, RCA Victor, Telarc, Sony, and Philips. Former faculty of Rice University, Eastman School of Music.
 Yeesun Kim
Violoncello; Chamber Music; Borromeo String Quartet, quartet-in-residence
Yeesun Kim is a member of the Borromeo String Quartet. A native of Seoul, Korea, she has won several top Korean awards, including the Ewha and Jungang national competitions, and in 1981 the Seoul Young Artists Award for achievement in music and academics. Kim has appeared with the KBS Symphony and the Jeunesse Ensemble and has been featured on "FM Concert Hall". Kim has appeared at the Marlboro Festival, Aspen Summer School, and Banff Festival, and given solo and chamber music recitals in Carnegie Hall and Jordan Hall at NEC.
With the Borromeo Quartet she has played numerous concerts nationally and internationally, performing in Alice Tully Hall, Kennedy Center, Suntory Hall in Japan, and Wigmore Hall in London. She frequently appears as a member of the Wu Han–Pamela Frank–Yeesun Kim Piano Trio.
B.A., Curtis Institute; M.M., Artist Diploma with Borromeo String Quartet, NEC. Violoncello with David Soyer, Laurence Lesser. Also faculty of the NEC at Walnut Hill School for the Performing Arts.
 Laurence Lesser
President Emeritus; Walter W. Naumburg Chair in Music; Violoncello;
Chamber Music; Artistic Director, "First Monday at Jordan Hall"
A member of the New England Conservatory faculty since 1974, and president of the school from 1983 through 1996 (following a year as artistic director), Laurence Lesser teaches College and Preparatory cello students and brings unique value to the chamber music experience at NEC and in Boston through his artistic direction of the First Monday at Jordan Hall concert series since 1985.
In 2010, Bridge records issued Lesser's recording with pianist HaeSun Paik of Beethoven's complete music for cello and piano. The comprehensive documentation embraced by this three-disc collection includes two audio CDs as well as the DVD Behind the Beethoven Project with biographical material, a discussion of this repertoire, and clips from concerts held in Korea immediately following the recording sessions in NEC's Jordan Hall.
Laurence Lesser was a top prize winner in the 1966 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and a guest performer in the historic Heifetz-Piatigorsky concerts and recordings. In 1976 he gave the premiere of Menotti’s Fantasia (written for him under a Ford Foundation grant) with the New Japan Philharmonic under Seiji Ozawa; in 1991, he performed the New England premiere with the NEC Symphony conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich. He has been a soloist with the BSO, the London Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and other major orchestras. He has appeared at the Casals, Spoleto, Marlboro, Charleston, and Santa Fe festivals as well as London’s South Bank Summer Music Festival.
In 2005, Lesser was named a "Chevalier du Violoncelle" by the Eva Janzer Memorial Cello Center at Indiana University, awarded for distinguished achievements and contributions to the world of cello playing and teaching.
Laurence Lesser occupies a teaching chair endowed by the estate of Walter W. Naumburg.
A.B., cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard College. Studies with Gregor Piatigorsky at the University of Southern California. Fulbright Scholar with Gaspar Cassadó in Köln, Germany. Recordings on Columbia, RCA, Melodiya, Desto. Former faculty of Peabody Institute, University of Southern California, Banff Centre for the Arts, Toho Gakuen School of Music.
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