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For over thirty-five years, cellist Joel Krosnick has performed as a 
soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician all over the world. As a member 
of the Juilliard String Quartet since 1974, he has performed the great 
quartet literature throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. 
He has recorded the complete quartets of Beethoven, Bartok, Schoenberg, 
Janacek, Hindemith, and Brahms, as well as the last ten quartets of 
Mozart, four quartets of Elliott Carter, and works of Debussy, Ravel, 
Dutilleux, Berg, Smetana, Roger Sessions, Franck, Verdi, Donald Martino, 
Stefan Wolpe, Bach, and Haydn.
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With his sonata partner of over twenty years, pianist Gilbert Kalish, Mr. 
Krosnick has performed recitals throughout the United States and Europe. 
Since 1976, they have given annual series of recitals at Weill and Merkin 
Halls, as well as at Miller and Juilliard Theatres. In 1984, Krosnick and 
Kalish gave a six-concert retrospective of twentieth-century music for 
cello and piano at the Juilliard Theatre and at the Library of Congress in 
Washington, D.C.
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With Gilbert Kalish, Mr. Krosnick has recorded for the Arabesque label the 
Complete Sonatas and Variations of Beethoven and the Sonatas of Brahms, as 
well as works of Poulenc, Prokofiev, Elliott Carter, Hindemith, Debussy, 
Janacek, and Henry Cowell. Recently released was a disc of the cello and 
piano sonatas of Johannes Brahms. Especially noteworthy is a recording 
devoted to the cello and piano music of Ralph Shapey; soon to be released 
is a disc of "Forgotten Americans," including music of Ernst Bacon, Hall 
Overton, Ben Weber, and Otto Luening.
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In the season of 2002-2003, Mr. Krosnick and Mr. Kalish performed a pair 
of recitals at the Juilliard School of Lincoln Center. One of the recitals 
was a memorial to the composer Ralph Shapey, involving among other Shapey 
works the Sonata for Cello and Piano (1954), the Kroslish Sonata, and the 
Songs of Life, as well as the premiere of the Duo Variations for violin 
and cello, a composition from 1985. The other recital included premieres 
of works by Gunther Schuller and Richard Wernick, as well as works by 
Robert Stern and Francis Poulenc.
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Joel Krosnick was born in 1941 to a family of enthusiastic amateur 
musicians-his mother was a pianist, his father a violinist/doctor. There 
was so much recorded and live chamber music in his home that by the time 
Joel was twelve years old, he had played most of the Classical and 
Romantic piano trio literature with his mother and (now professional) 
violinist brother, Aaron. By the age of seventeen, he had read much of the 
standard quartet repertory with his family and friends.
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Enrolling in Columbia College, Joel became involved with composers and new 
music, eventually becoming a founding member of the Group for Contemporary 
Music. The connection with the music of his time has become a lifelong 
passion for Joel Krosnick, and has led to premieres and performances of 
the works by such composers as Roger Sessions, Elliott Carter, Charles 
Wuorinen, Ralph Shapey, Richard Wernick, Stefan Wolpe, Perry Goldstein, 
Milton Babbitt, Paul Zonn, Donald Martino, Stanley Walden, and Morton 
Subotnick.
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Particularly noteworthy are premieres of Donald Martino's Cello Concerto 
in Cincinnati and New York (with the Juilliard Orchestra); also 
significant were the premieres of the Ralph Shapey Double Concerto for 
Violin, Cello, and Orchestra (with Robert Mann and the composer conducting 
the Juilliard Orchestra) and of the Ralph Shapey Double Concerto for 
Cello, Piano, and Double String Orchestra (with Gilbert Kalish and Ralph 
Shapey conducting the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra). In October of 
1999, Krosnick premiered Richard Wernick's Cello Concert #2 with the 
Juilliard Orchestra. In January 2001, he played the concerto by Sir Donald 
Francis Tovey in three performances with the Jupiter Symphony under the 
baton of Jens Nygaard.
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Joel Krosnick has taught the cello and chamber music since his earliest 
professional life. He held professorships at the Universities of Iowa and 
Massachusetts, and has been artist-in-residence at the California 
Institute of the Arts. Since 1974, he has been on the faculty of the 
Juilliard School, where since 1994 he has served as chairman of the Cello 
Department. Mr. Krosnick has been associated with the Aspen Festival, 
Marlboro, the Tanglewood Music Center, the Daniel Days Music Festival, 
Ravinia, and, presently, Kneisel Hall and Yellow Barn. In 1999, he joined 
for the second time the faculty of the Piatigorsky Seminar at the 
University of Southern California.
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Joel Krosnick holds honorary doctoral degrees from Michigan State 
University, Jacksonville University, and the San Francisco Conservatory of 
Music. As a member of the Juilliard String Quartet, he has received 
numerous Grammy nominations, twice winning the Grammy Award (for the 
complete Schoenberg Quartets, and for the late quartets of Beethoven). His 
discs "In the Shadow of World War II" and "In the Shadow of World War I" 
(both with Gilbert Kalish) won Indie Awards in 1997 and 1999. Their recent 
recording of the Brahms Sonatas won the 2002 award from the Classical 
Recording Foundation.
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Joel Krosnick has recorded for the Sony Classical, Nonesuch, Orion, CRI, 
New World, Koch International, and Arabesque labels.

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