A wonderful five day mini-tour has come to an end with Sigrun Edvaldsdottir , my classmate at Curtis some 40 years ago, and Bryndís Halla Gylfadóttir ; we performed the great Mozart Divertimento K 563 twice, in Jaén and tonight at the Úbeda Festival, and the Beethoven Trio in D.

Gręat photo by Sarah Whitney after our concert last night in the Trentino Music Festival in Mezzano with Pascale Delache-Feldman and Emmanuel Feldman and Sarah...

I am so happy to be teaching in the Forum Musikae summer course with very serious viola students, and a really fine group of professors, who are also dear friends. The students are hard working and respectful, and Jimmy Lim and Fernando Molina are making a very fine conservatory.

Forum Musikae summer course, July 2024

It is such a pleasure to be with my childhood heroe, dear friend, great violist, great teacher, and my mentor Bruno Giuranna, who in his ninth decade is still inspiring many musicians. I am proud to work alongside of him at the Virtuoso & Belcanto Festival in Lucca. Peter Adamik

This Virtuoso & Belcanto Festival has a lot of fine people and musicians involved, as it has every year for the past eight years. Festival director Riccardo Cecchetti is an expert in putting together a fine faculty and attracting fine students to this festival.

🔥🔥🔥 The most gorgeous powerful viola faculty in Virtuoso&Belcanto Festival🎻🇮🇹 @virtuosoebelcantofestival # Kim Kashkashian @wenting_kang @paulmontseviola @mateszucs_viola

For the first time in many years, I have a whole month of vacation! So, time to watch the Olympic games and recharge my batteries. After two whole months of performing and teaching in summer festivals, I really need the rest. This photo was taken by my dear friend Peter Adamik.

Forum Musikae Paul Cortese Professor of viola, chamber music, and orchestral repertory

Coming soon-Reger Serenades with Maarika Järvi and Wolfgang Schroeder , recorded by Oriol Pla at Espai Local, edited and produced by Julian Jahanpour

Coming soon-Reger Serenades with Maarika Järvi and Wolfgang Schroeder , recorded by Oriol Pla at Espai Local edited and produced by Julian Jahanpour

UpaUp Eduard Boleda , my dear former student, fine violist, artist, and friend, created this work of art for me upon my request. I call it the Climbing Violist, and it is now part of our back patio at home in Sant Andreu de Llavaneres, Barcelona. We all love it. Thank you so much

youtu.be/WEFWb7CB77Y?si… Edward Ware wrote very original pieces for viola and drums based on death masks of the African Fang tribe, and in a few of the pieces he added Bruce Gremo on the shakuhachi. Enjoy.

I will begin this academic year 2024-2025 as professor of viola, chamber music, and orchestral repertoire in both the Conservatori del Liceu in Barcelona, 25 years, and Forum Musikae in Madrid, my second year, with the hope of having another very enthusiastic group of students.

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Enjoying working with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid as guest principal viola on Adriana Lecouvreur by Francesco Cilea at the Teatro Real in Madrid

Today is my first day of classes in my second year as professor of viola, chamber music, and orchestral repertory. Good class!

I am very pleased to collaborate as guest first viola in the Teatro Real with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid in the production of Adriana Lecouvreur by the Calabrian composer Francesco Cilea. The conductor is the Tuscan Nicola Luisotti, and the orchestra and singers are good!

I am very pleased to collaborate as guest first viola in the Teatro Real with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid in the production of Adriana Lecouvreur by the Calabrian composer Francesco Cilea. The conductor is the Tuscan Nicola Luisotti, and the orchestra and singers are great.

Teatro Calderón, Motril, before performing Verklärte Nacht by Arnold Schönberg with the Quatuor Diotima, 2019