Paul Coletti
Paul Coletti has an international career spanning 30 years with solo concerts in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Montreal, Buenos Aires, Busan, Shanghai, Mexico, all over Europe including, Zurich, Berlin, Edinburgh, Florence, London, Lisbon, Salzburg, Barcelona and Gothenberg. With his innovative and multi-faceted group Typhoon [1991-2000] he performed in over 600 concerts in Japan, and with the Menuhin Festival piano quartet [1989-1999] he performed in 250 concerts worldwide.
Paul Coletti has been invited to festivals in locations such as Salzburg, St Barths, Lake Como, the Grand Canyon, the Bahamas, Prussia Cove, Steamboat Springs and Vail, Okinawa, Lyon, Assisi, Hawaii, Tuscanny, the Highlands and the outer Hebrides of Scotland, Gstaad and Lenk, Winnipeg, Banff, Argentina, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand.
Paul Coletti teaches viola at the Colburn Conservatory in LA. Paul Coletti. He has given teaching courses and master classes at the Shanghai Conservatory, The Toho School in Japan, and the Busan festival in Korea, throughout Europe, and at North American Universities such as Rice, Indiana, Kansas City, Salt Lake City, Baylor, Dallas, Toronto, and the Chicago Institute of Music. He was appointed Head of Strings at the University of Washington in 1985 at age 25. For 8 years he was Viola Professor at Johns Hopkins University, and between 2002-2007 he was Head of Chamber Music at UCLA.
Paul Coletti studied with Yehudi Menuhin, Alberto Lysy and Sandor Vegh at the Menuhin Academy in Switzerland, with William Lincer, Dorothy Delay and Felix Galimir at the Juilliard school in New York, with Don McIness in Cincinnati, and Zoltan Szekely in Banff. Paul Coletti has written and arranged music for Oxford University Press. Editing Rebecca Clarke’s music led to Coletti’s Three pieces for viola and piano being published by OUP.
Career highlights include conducting Mozart with the New Japan Philharmonic in Tokyo, plus concerts in the Sydney Opera House, Berlin Philharmonie, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Kennedy center, Il Teatro Colon, La Salle Pleyel, Suntory Hall and his hometown Usher Hall in Edinburgh. His 30 plus CD’s of solo and chamber music are are mostly still available in record shops worldwide and have won awards such as BBC’s “Best of the year”, Switzerland’s “Best chamber music album of the year”, and two of Typhoon’s CD’s reached No. 1 in the Japanese charts. He has performed with Gerard Schwartz, Andre Previn, Peter Maag, Yehudi Menuhin, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Justice Sandra Day O’Conner, Claude Bolling and Star Trek’s Leonard Nimoy.
His recent solo concerts includes Paul Schoenfield’s viola concerto at Disney Hall in 2006 with the L.A. Philharmonic. This year includes the World Premiere of Irving Schlein’s viola sonata at the Tucson Festival, and William Walton’s viola concerto celebrating the 2007 opening of the Colburn School.
