Musical Conversation: Paul Neubauer & Oliver Neubauer hosted by Robert McBride

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Paul Neubauer Viola

Violist Paul Neubauer’s exceptional musicality and effortless playing led The New York Times to call him “a master musician.” In 2025 he will release two albums for First Hand Records that feature the final works of two great composers: an all-Bartók album including the revised version of the viola concerto, and a Shostakovich recording including the monumental viola sonata.

At age 21, Mr. Neubauer was appointed principal violist of the New York Philharmonic, and he held that position for six years. He has appeared as soloist with over 100 orchestras including the New York, Los Angeles, and Helsinki philharmonics; Chicago, National, St. Louis, Detroit, Dallas, San Francisco, and Bournemouth symphonies; and Mariinsky, Santa Cecilia, English Chamber, and Beethovenhalle orchestras.

He has also premiered viola concertos by Béla Bartók (revised version of the Viola Concerto), Reinhold Glière, Gordon Jacob, Henri Lazarof, Robert Suter, Joel Phillip Friedman, Aaron Jay Kernis, Detlev Müller-Siemens, David Ott, Krzysztof Penderecki, Tobias Picker, and Joan Tower. He performs with SPA, a trio with soprano Susanna Phillips and pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, with a wide range of repertoire including salon style songs.

He has been featured on CBS’s Sunday Morning, A Prairie Home Companion, and in Strad, Strings, and People magazines. A two-time Grammy nominee, he has recorded on numerous labels including Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, RCA Red Seal, and Sony Classical.

Mr. Neubauer appears with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and is the artistic director of the Mostly Music series in New Jersey. He is on the faculty of The Juilliard School and Mannes College

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Upcoming Concerts & Events

• Viola Masterclass with Paul Neubauer (2023)

Oliver Neubauer Violin

Praised for his sensitive and uniquely beautiful playing, violinist Oliver Neubauer is establishing himself as an artist of great emotional depth and maturity beyond his years.

In the 2021-22 season, Oliver will make his debut with the Apex Concerts Series and return to perform with the Jupiter Chamber Players, Mostly Music Series, and Parlance Chamber Concerts. He will also give several recitals in NYC, including one at Hudson Yards and the Juilliard School. This past summer, Oliver attended the Perlman Music Program Chamber Workshop and the Verbier Festival Academy and also gave numerous performances at Bravo! Vail Music Festival and Music from Angel Fire.

Past seasons have included appearances at the Four Seasons Winter Workshop, Palm Beach Chamber Music Society, Bravo! Vail, YoungArts Miami, Parlance Chamber Concerts, If Music Be the Food NYC, Mostly Music Series, Summerfest La Jolla, Music@Menlo, Lake Champlain Music Festival, OKM Music Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, Music in the Vineyards, Art in Avila in Curaçao, and Music from Angel Fire. Oliver has performed at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall on numerous occasions as well as Symphony Space, the American Museum of Natural History, Neue Gallery, Alice Tully Hall, and David Geffen Hall. Oliver also performed with his sister Clara at the Waldorf Astoria for a 9/11 Memorial and Museum Benefit Dinner, where they shared the stage with Robert De Niro and Bernadette Peters.

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Robert McBride Radio Host

Robert McBride retired from the classical music broadcasting business in 2018, after a 35-year career at radio stations in Washington, Oregon, and New York, along with freelance production and hosting work for NPR, PRI, and others. Locally he’s best known for his nine years at OPB and 18 years at All Classical Radio, where he hosted Thursdays@Three, Club Mod, and other programs. Now he does voice-over work and conducts interviews for Chamber Music Northwest, Oregon Symphony, and others. Once upon a time he wanted to be a rock star, but that wasn’t very realistic, was it? He still plays drums occasionally, and classical percussion, and enjoys composing, arranging, auditing classes at Portland State University, and wondering what’s next.

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