Mark Shuman, Cello
"...one was transfixed by the exceptional playing of Shuman."
                                                                                            -Bangor Daily News

has performed as a chamber musician and soloist in concert halls throughout the world. For many years a member of the Composers String Quartet, he is also a founder of the period instrument group The Aulos Ensemble. He has worked with a broad spectrum of artists ranging from Elliott Carter and Raymond Lepard to Streisand and Lenny Kravitz. In his efforts to expand the cello repertoire, Mr. Shuman has sought out contemporary and previously neglected works and has recorded the cello music of the Spanish composer and virtuoso Gaspar Casado. His most recent release, on ASV Quicksilva, is the complete cello music of Mendelssohn recorded with pianist Todd Crow. A native New Yorker, Mr. Shuman is a graduate of The Juilliard School. He studied cello with Leonard Rose and Harvey Shapiro, and chamber music with Artur Balsam, Emanuel Bay, Joseph Fuchs, Felix Galimir and Sascha Jacobsen. He is currently a member of the New York City Opera Orchestra and on the faculty of Columbia University.