Cellist Jonathan Karoly

Cellist Jonathan Karoly has been a member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra since the 1997/98 season. A native of Chicago, he began studying the cello at the age of three, and was a prize-winning cellist, pianist, and composer from an early age. Following studies in Chicago with Karl Fruh and Nathaniel Rosen, and in New York with Zara Nelsova, Mr. Karoly graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree with honors from the University of Southern California as a pupil of Ronald Leonard. Active as a solo and chamber musician, Mr. Karoly has performed at the festivals of Marlboro, Verbier, Sarasota, Music Academy of the West, and Aspen, where he was a fellowship recipient. He is a regular performer in the LA Philharmonic’s Chamber Music Society and Green Umbrella New Music Concerts, and recently performed the Mendelssohn Octet at Carnegie Hall as part of the Musicians from Marlboro 50th Anniversary Concerts. Mr. Karoly has won grand prize in the Pasadena Instrumental Competition and first prize in the Chicago Cello Society Competition. The New York Times called his playing “highly musical and expressively generous.” A CD of Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn Piano Trios has been released on Telos Records.