Gary Hoffman
    Gary Hoffman is one of the outstanding cellists of our time, combining instrumental mastery, great beauty of sound, and a poetic sensibility in his distinctive and memorable performances. Mr. Hoffman gained international renown upon his victory as the first North American to win the Rostropovich International Competition in Paris in 1986.

    A frequent soloist with the world's most noted orchestras, he has appeared with the Chicago, London, Montreal, Toronto, San Francisco, Baltimore and National symphony orchestras as well as the English, Moscow and Los Angeles chamber orchestras, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Netherlands and Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra for the Blossom Festival and Philadelphia Orchestra, among many others. Mr. Hoffman collaborates regularly with such celebrated conductors as André Prévin, Charles Dutoit, Mstislav Rostropovich, Pinchas Zuckerman, Andrew Davis, Herbert Blomstedt, Kent Nagano, Jésus Lopez-Cobos and James Levine…

    Gary Hoffman performs on major recital and chamber music series throughout the world, as well as in such prestigious festivals as Ravinia, Marlboro, Aspen, Bath, Evian, Helsinki, Verbier, Mostly Mozart, Schleswig-Holstein, Stresa... He is a frequent guest of string quartets including Emerson, Tokyo, Borromeo, Brentano, and Ysaye.
    In addition, Mr. Hoffman is an Artist Member of the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society.

    Last season, he was the guest of the Théâtre du Châtelet, the Kennedy Center he played all Bach Suites, which were acclaimed by the Washington Post as “Sublime Bach Suites”; also the Ravinia Festival with a gorgeous solo recital, etc. and with partners as Cho Liang Lin, Leon Fleisher, etc.
He is a regular guest of the Kronberg Cello Akademie.

    Gary Hoffman has premieres many concertos (Laurent Petitgirard, Joel Hoffman, Renaud Gagneux, Gil Shohat, Graciane Finzi…).  Gary Hoffman plays concerts with orchestras in France – where he resides –, as well as throughout Europe (Cordoba, Baleares, Helsingborg, Warsaw, Stavanger, Budapest, Bodensee , etc.) , and all around the world– America, Asia, South Africa, etc.
    Last April, Gary Hoffman played the French Premiere of Elliott Carter Cello Concerto, with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo. During summer, he plays in various Festivals as Ravinia, Santa Fe, Bloomington, Lincoln Center, Kobé, Pradres, etc.

Born in   Vancouver,  Canada, in 1956, Gary Hoffman devotes time to teaching, as well, having been the youngest faculty appointee in the history of the Indiana University School of Music, where he remained for eight years. Mr. Hoffman regularly holds master classes world-wide.
Residing in Paris, he is an active recording artist with the BMG (RCA), Sony, EMI and Le Chant du Monde labels.

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