Paul Tseng, Author at CelloBello

About Paul Tseng

Paul Tseng has toured as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician throughout the United States, Canada, Egypt, Jordan, Israel and South Africa. He has
appeared as concerto soloist in the Cairo Royal Opera House in Egypt, The
Royal Cultural Center in Amman, Jordan (a concert sponsored by the Queen of
Jordan and nationally televised,) Stellenbosch University and in the city of
Durban, South Africa.

A graduate of Juilliard and Peabody Conservatory, Paul taught as a faculty assistant at Juilliard and Manhattan School of Music. He also served on the faculties of Shepherd College, Western Maryland College, Brooklyn College and Columbia Union College.

As an orchestral musician, Paul was principal cellist of the Gettysburg Symphony and Millbrook Orchestra. He also played as assistant principal cellist of the Maryland Symphony Orchestra. As a student he performed under the baton of Sixten Erhling, Leonard Slatkin and Barry Tuckwell.

Conversation with Yosif Feigelson (1995)

Interview by Paul Tseng PT: Please describe your association with Rostropovich. JF: In terms of my association with Rostropovich, I studied with him for three years from 1971 to 1974. It was after I took the first prize in the Concertino Prague Competition. Rostropovich also won first prize in a competition with Daniel Shafran [Prague Spring Festival]. He heard about me from a friend. I remember he held an audition in his flat in Moscow and I actually came a year earlier to the conservatory because I had to graduate a year later. But he said I should take a one year extension in my studies. At that time he had gotten involved with Solzhenitsyn and it was a difficult time because he wasn't concertizing very much. But for me [...]