Paul Neubauer was Principal Violist of the New York Philharmonic at age twenty-one and has appeared with the New York and Los Angeles philharmonics; San Francisco Symphony; Chicago, National, St. Louis, Detroit, and Dallas symphony orchestras; and Mariinsky, Santa Cecilia, English Chamber, and Beethovenhalle orchestras. He has premiered viola concertos by Bartók (revised version of the Viola Concerto), Friedman, Glière, Jacob, Kernis, Lazarof, Müller-Siemens, Ott, Penderecki, Picker, Suter, and Tower and has been featured on CBS’s Sunday Morning, on A Prairie Home Companion, and in Strad, Strings, and People magazines. A two-time Grammy nominee, he has recorded on the Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, RCA Red Seal, and Sony Classical labels.