Alan Ohkubo is a first-year Cello Fellow at the New World Symphony. He was a member of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra and served as Principal Cello of the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra, with which he appeared as soloist in Dvořák’s cello concerto. The New London Day praised Mr. Ohkubo for “technique with a swaggering panache, retaining musicality…robust fullness from lower register…to the top.”
Mr. Ohkubo recently completed an Artist Diploma and a Master of Music degree at the Yale School of Music under the tutelage of master cellist and pedagogue Aldo Parisot. Prior to Yale, Mr. Ohkubo studied with world-renowned cellist and teacher Janos Starker at Indiana University as a Barbara and David Jacobs Scholar.
An avid chamber musician, Mr. Ohkubo has performed alongside artists such as David Shifrin, Cho-Liang Lin, and Ko Iwasaki. He has also appeared in solo and chamber recitals in Tokyo and New York City on Charlotte White’s Salon de Virtuosi concert series. Mr. Ohkubo took part in a series of concerts in Carnegie Hall while participating in the New York String Orchestra Seminar. In recent summers, he has attended Music Masters Course Japan, an intensive chamber music seminar held in Yokohama.
