Paul Rosenthal was born in 1942 and began playing the violin at the age of three. He studied with Dorothy DeLay and Ivan Galamian at The Julliard School and with Jascha Heifetz at the University of Southern California. Mr. Rosenthal has made his home in Alaska since 1969 and has enjoyed performing innumerable concerts in every corner of the vast state. In 1972, Rosenthal founded the Sitka Summer Music Festival, which continues to attract musicians and audiences from many countries and is recognized as one of the outstanding chamber music festivals in the United States. He also directs the festival's affiliated Autumn Classics and Winter Classics series in Anchorage. Mr. Rosenthal has performed as soloist with orchestras from Alaska to New York and in recitals and chamber music series in the United States, Canada, Germany, Holland, Scotland, and the Bahamas. He can be heard in recordings on the RCA, Vox, Fidelio, Arabesque, Vanguard, and Biddulph labels, including the premiere recording of the String Quartet Op. 14 by Taneyev and Tschaikowsky's Souvenir de Florence, recorded in 1968 with Jascha Heifetz and Gregor Piatigorsky. Paul Rosenthal holds honorary degrees as Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Alaska and Doctor of Music from Alaska Pacific University. He performs on a violin made by Joseph Guarnerius in Cremona in 1706.