Kurt Coble

Violin

Kurt Coble performed on Broadway for twenty five years as a solo violinist for Phantom of the Opera. His credits also include stage violinist for Sunset Boulevard on Broadway, Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular; Concertmaster: Palm Beach Opera, Harrisburg Symphony, Philadelphia Virtuosi; many Carnegie Hall & Lincoln Center performances. Commercial recordings with Barbara Streisand, Buster Rhymes, Stevie Wonder; film score recordings for Lionsgate, ESPN, HBO; stage performances with Itzak Pearlman, Luciano Pavarotti, Johnny Mathis, Björk; dozens of solo recitals, many with BSO pianist Vytas Baksys. Kurt has received grants from WestchesterArts, PNC Bank, National Endowment for the Arts, United States Embassy, and the Dodge Foundation. He has composed music for the theater and concert halls, his “Pennsylvania Barn Dance” was recorded by Arnold Steinhardt and “Prayer for Peace” for string orchestra was included in the 2019 Broadway Carols for the Cure. He has been published in the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems. Since 2000 he has been developing his robotic orchestra “The P.A.M. Band” which has been featured on the Discovery Channel, NPR’s “This American Life”, and New York Times.