Timothy Landauer

Timothy Landauer was hailed as “a cellist of extraordinary gifts” by the New York Times when won the coveted Concert Artists Guild International Award in 1983. He has won numerous prestigious prizes, among them the national Gregor Piatigorsky Memorial Cello Award of the Young Musicians Foundation, the Samuel Applebaum Grand Prize in the American String Teachers Association’s National Solo Competition, and the 1984 Hammer-Rostropovich Scholarship Award.

Landauer was born in Shanghai, the son of musicians. He first studied with his father and attended the Shanghai Conservatory Middle School. He continued his studies with Eleonore Schoenfeld at USC, where he earned his master’s degree and was immediately invited to join the faculty as a lecturer and assistant to Lynn Harrell. Since then his extensive engagements have included acclaimed recitals at Carnegie Recital Hall, the Ambassador Auditorium in Los Angeles, and the Orford Art Center in Montreal. He has performed as a soloist with the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, Gulbenkian Orchestra (Lisbon), Hong Kong Philharmonic, Taiwan National Symphony, Beijing Symphony, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Maryland Symphony, Pacific Symphony Orchestra, and at the Grand Teton Festival. He received Arts Orange County’s “Outstanding Individual Artist Award” in 2004.