Paul Rosenthal

Paul Rosenthal began playing violin at the age of three. He studied with Dorothy DeLay and Ivan Galamian at the Juilliard School and with Jascha Heifetz at the University of Southern California.
Rosenthal has made his home in Alaska since 1969 and has enjoyed performing hundreds of concerts in every corner of the state. In 1972, Rosenthal founded the Sitka Summer Music Festival in Sitka, Alaska. The festival attracts musicians and audiences from many countries and around the United States and is… Show more recognized as one of the outstanding music festivals in the country. He also directs the festival’s affiliated Autumn Classics and Winter Classics series in Anchorage.

An active violin soloist and chamber musician, Rosenthal tours regularly in America, Europe and the Orient. He has served on the faculty of the University of Alaska in both Fairbanks and Anchorage and has given master classes in Europe, Japan and Korea. He can be heard in recording on the RCA, Vox, Fidelio, Pelican and Biddulph labels.

Rosenthal has also composed works on Alaskan themes. His Bravura Variations on “Alaska’s Flag” and “Alaskan Overture” have been heard in many countries around the globe.

He holds honorary degrees as doctor of music from Alaska Pacific University and Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Alaska, Anchorage.

Rosenthal performs on a violin made by Joseph Guarnerius in Cremona in 1706.

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