Pacific Symphony Principal Cellist Timothy Landauer was hailed “a cellist of extraordinary gifts” by the New York Times when he won the coveted Concert Artists Guild International Award in 1983 in New York. Landauer is the winner of numerous prestigious prizes and awards, among them the Young Musicians Foundation’s National Gregor Piatigorsky Memorial Cello Award, the Samuel Applebaum Grand Prize of the National Solo Competition of the American String Teacher’s Association and the 1984 Hammer-Rostropovich Scholarship Award. Landauer’s extensive engagements include his highly acclaimed recitals at Carnegie Recital Hall, Ambassador Auditorium in Los Angeles, Orford Arts Center in Montreal and City Hall Theatre in Hong Kong and Hannover, Germany. He has performed as a soloist with orchestras across three continents. They include the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra, the Beijing Symphony and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. In the United States, he has appeared with the Pacific Symphony, the Maryland Symphony and the Grand Teton Festival Orchestra. Landauer was born in Shanghai, the son of musician parents. He first studied with his father and later attended the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, a pupil of Ying-Rong Lin. He continued his studies in the United States with Eleonore Schoenfeld at the University of Southern California where, upon receiving his master’s degree, he was invited to join the faculty as a lecturer and assistant to Piatigorsky Chair Professor Lynn Harrell. Landauer was the recipient of “The Outstanding Individual Artist Award 2004” presented by Arts Orange County.