Paul Kantor

Paul Kantor is an American violin teacher and pedagogue, currently the Sally Shepherd Perkins Professor of Violin at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, after serving as the Eleanor H. Biggs Distinguished Professor at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He studied violin with Dorothy DeLay and chamber music with Robert Mann at The Juilliard School, earning Bachelor and Master of Music degrees, and continues her pedagogical lineage. He is frequently selected as a jury member for international violin competitions and is married to pianist Virginia Weckstrom.[2][3]