Paul Cohen is active as a performer, teacher, historian, musicologist, and author in areas all related to the saxophone. He has appeared as soloist with some of the nation's top symphonies including the San Francisco Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Charleston Symphony, Richmond Symphony, Philharmonia Virtuosi and others.
He has recorded three albums with the Cleveland Symphonic Winds, a CD of the music of Villa-Lobos with the Quintet of the Americas plus recordings with the Saxophone Sinfonia, New York Solisti, Paul Winter Consort, North-South Consonance, and the new Sousa Band. He also performs with orchestras and chamber ensembles, including the New York Solisti, Ohio Chamber Orchestra, Oregon Symphony, Cleveland Ballet, NEP Symphony, Wayne Chamber Orchestra, Hartford Symphony, and the Long Island Philharmonic. His two most recent recordings include an environmental-jazz CD of solo improvisation as well as the newly discovered saxophone concerto of the 19th century American composer Caryl Florio. Dr. Cohen is currently on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music, Oberlin Conservatory, William Patterson University, and NYU.
Dr. Cohen has published numerous articles on saxophone literature and history in such noted publications as the Saxophone Journal, Clarinet and Saxophone Society Magazine of Great Britain, The Grainger Society Journal, Saxophone Symposium, Instrumentalist, and CBDNA Notes. Since 1985 he has authored the widely read and informative "Vintage Saxophones Revisited" column in the Saxophone Journal.
Dr. Cohen's publishing company, To the Fore Publishers, offers original, historical and contemporary saxophone works from a wide range of nationally known composers in addition to Dr. Cohen's own arrangements and settings for saxophone ensemble.
