Mark Kosower
American cellist Mark Kosower has achieved significant careers in both the U.S. and Germany. Kosower was born December 17, 1976, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, to cellist and educator Paul Kosower and teacher Janet Kosower. He took up the cello at age one and a half, and after studies with his father, went on to work with two of the top teachers on the American cello scene: Janos Starker at the University of Indiana (from which he graduated in 1998) and Joel Krosnick of the Juilliard Quartet. He earned a master's degree from Juilliard in 2001. In the mid-2000s decade Kosower pursued a bicontinental career, holding the position of principal cello in Germany's Bamberg Symphony Orchestra while teaching cello and chamber music at the San Francisco Conservatory for part of that period. In July of 2010 Kosower assumed the position of principal cellist for the Cleveland Orchestra, which had been vacant since 2003.
Kosower has concertized extensively, both as a concerto soloist and as a chamber musician. In the former capacity he has appeared with many of the major American symphony orchestras, including those in Detroit, Buffalo, Houston, Seattle, and Minneapolis-St. Paul (the Minnesota Orchestra and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra), as well as with ensembles worldwide that include the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the China National Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, the Orchestre de Paris, and the KwaZulu Natal Philharmonic Orchestra in Durban, South Africa. Kosower has given solo recitals at New York's Kennedy Center, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, as well as at halls on three other continents. He has toured with his father and sister as a member of the Dolce Cello Trio. Kosower's recordings include one of the Ginastera Cello Concerto with the Bamberg Symphony, released on the Naxos label in 2011. He is married to pianist Jee-Won Oh, a fellow Indiana graduate.
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Discography
6 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Ginastera: Cello Concertos
Mark Kosower, Bamberger Symphoniker, Lothar Zagrosek
Classical - Released by Naxos on 1 May 2011
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Herbert: Cello Concertos Nos. 1, 2, & Irish Rhapsody
Mark Kosower, Ulster Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta
Classical - Released by Naxos on 1 Apr 2016
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Musique pour violoncelle et piano (Intégrale)
Chamber Music - Released by Naxos on 24 Jun 2008
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Esquisses hongroises - Rhapsodie pour violoncelle
MAV Symphony Orchestra, Mark Kosower, Mariusz Smolij
Classical - Released by Naxos on 17 Dec 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Cello Recital: Kosower, Mark - BARTOK, B. / DOHNANYI, E. / KODALY, Z. / LISZT, F. / (Hungarian Music for Cello and Piano)
Chamber Music - Released by Naxos on 29 Jul 2008
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Konzert für Violoncello und Orchester
Eberhard Klemmstein, Mark Kosower, Bratislava Symphony Orchestra, David Hernando Rico
Classical - Released by Hey!classics on 17 Dec 2023
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo