Marc Moskovitz is principal cellist of the Promusica Chamber Orchestra Columbus and a current member of the North Carolina Symphony. A former associate professor at The University of Toledo and cellist of the Toledo Trio, Marc later moved to Boston, where he played with some of the city’s most venerable music organizations, among them The Boston Pops and The Handel and Haydn Society. He has performed as a guest of the International Piatti Festival in Bergamo, Italy and at the Library of Congress, where he gave the North American premiere of Zemlinsky’s rediscovered Cello Sonata. Marc’s recordings include the music of cello virtuosi David Popper and Alfredo Piatti, both on the VAI label, and premiere recordings of music of Franz Reizenstein and Eric Zeisl (ASV label).  

A former student of cellists Janos Starker and Gary Hoffman, Marc holds a doctorate and master’s degree from Indiana University and spent one year in Berlin with cellist Wolfgang Boettcher as a Fulbright scholar.

Marc also writes widely about music. He is the author of several books, two of which have earned the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award. In additional to serving as the program annotator for the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, he has written program notes for orchestras and opera houses in the United States, Germany, Spain, and China, has provided liner notes for the Melba and Naxos record labels, and is a contributor to the The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. His latest book, entitled The Eyes of Bach, is a historical novel.