Paul Casey

Paul Casey was born and raised in Ottawa and is an avid orchestral, chamber, and solo musician and pedagogue. 

Paul is one of the newest additions to the National Arts Centre Orchestra viola section as a soloist. Paul has performed with NACO as part of FanFair, the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra, and has given recitals in Canada and the United States. He was the 2011 recipient of the NACO Bursary Competition’s Harold Crabtree Foundation Award.  

Paul obtained an MMus and a BMus from Indiana University and the University of Ottawa, respectively, and most recently studied at McGill University.  

Paul is on faculty at the Leading Note Foundation’s OrKidstra program and was the string coach for the Ottawa Junior Youth Orchestra. He is also a member of the Silflay String Quartet with his wife, cellist Karen Kang, and violinists Leah Roseman and Mark Friedman.