Artist Biography
Paul Roby, Violin
Paul Roby's first music lessons were with his parents whom as musicians knew better than to let him have his first desire, the tuba, and so steered Paul to the violin. Serious studies began at age 9 with Roman Totenberg and Mary Crowder Hess at the Longy School of Music and Boston University. When Paul turned 16 he entered the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he studied violin with Jascha Brodsky and Yumi Ninomiya Scott. Paul learned chamber music there with Felix Galimir and Karen Tuttle, while performing for some of today's most important composers such as George Rochberg and Witold Lutoslawski.
After graduating Curtis in 1988 Paul played for the Baltimore and the National Symphony Orchestras. In 1991 he joined the Philadelphia Orchestra where he was appointed Associate Principal 2nd Violin in 2000. Besides his chosen orchestral career Paul has played solos and chamber music throughout Europe, Japan, and the United States. As a founding member of the Salzau Quartet Paul played for President Weizaecker at the German White House; most recently he performed together with his father Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante with the Terre Haute, Indiana Symphony.