Born and raised in Israel, he moved to Boston to study at the New England Conservatory, where he was a Piatigorsky Scholarship student of Laurence Lesser. Mr. Katz is active as a soloist, chamber musician, and performer of contemporary music in New England and beyond. A series of solo cello pieces he commissioned during the COVID-19 pandemic, “cello minutes,” was featured in the Boston Globe and performed at Tanglewood. As a chamber musician, he participated in the Marlboro Festival and collaborated with members of the Juilliard and Guarneri quartets, Pinchas Zuckerman, and Gil Shaham, among others. Katz is on the Faculty of the New England Conservatory and the Tanglewood Music Center and teaches as a guest at master classes and workshops in Boston and around the country. When not playing the cello, Mickey enjoys hiking with his family and two dogs and is an obsessively serious home cook.

Photo by Marco Borggreve, courtesy BSO.