About this Artist
A native of Princeton, NJ, cellist Zachary Mowitz made his solo debut with The Philadelphia Orchestra in July 2018 as winner of the Greenfield Competition. Mowitz is the Artistic Director of ensemble132 and Nodality Music, an associated artist at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel (Belgium), and co-founder of Trio St. Bernard. He has performed with the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Indianapolis Symphony and has been Guest Principal Cello with the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra and Princeton Symphony Orchestra. He joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic in fall 2024.
Mowitz graduated in 2018 from the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Carter Brey and Peter Wiley and served as Principal Cello of the Curtis Symphony Orchestra. He subsequently studied at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel (Belgium) with Gary Hoffman and Jeroen Reuling and at the Royal College of Music (UK) with Richard Lester.