Lovers of cello music will find a whole new dimension to love in the music of cellist/vocalist/composer Stephen Katz. His compositions merge the emotional resonance and refinement of Classical music with the roots of rhythm and improvisation.  He has charted new territory for the rhythmic potential of the cello with the groundbreaking approach he calls Flying Pizzicato. The results are compositions and improvisations that juggle two or more voices at a time, making music that lays grooves, weaves tunes, and lifts spirits.

​Stephen has performed his compositions at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and toured internationally as a soloist, and with the Paul Winter Consort, Rachael Sage, Susan Werner, and the Essex String Quartet. He has been featured on American Public Media national broadcasts of Performance Today.

​As a film composer Stephen’s score for The Rich Have Their Own Photographers won the Jury Prize Gold Medal for Best Impact of Music in a Documentary at the Park City Film Music Festival. His other film scores include Two Square Miles, a film about Hudson, NY, broadcast nationally on PBS/Independent Lens, and The Tenacity Of Hope for Living In The Light/Cure CMD (Congenital Muscular Dystrophy).

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