Paul Cohen is one of America’s most sought-after saxophonists for orchestral performances, chamber concerts and solo recitals. He has appeared as soloist with the San Francisco Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Richmond Symphony, Charleston Symphony and the Philharmonia Virtuosi and the Manhtattan Chamber Orchestra.  His many solo orchestra performances include works by Debussy, Creston, Ibert, Glazunov, Martin, Loeffler, Husa, Dahl, Higdon, Still, Villa-Lobos, Tomasi, and Cowell. He has also performed with a broad range of orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera, American Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Hartford Symphony, and the Cleveland Orchestra. 

Dr. Cohen has recorded three albums with the Cleveland Symphonic Winds conducted by Frederick Fennell, a CD of the music of Villa-Lobos with the Quintet of the Americas, as well as recordings with the Philharmonia Virtuosi, New York Solisti, Paul Winter Consort, North-South Consonance, and the New Sousa Band. 

Dr. Cohen has rediscovered and performed lost saxophone literature, including works for saxophone and orchestra by Loeffler, Florio, and Dahl, as well as chamber works by Grainger, Ornstein, Sousa, Cowell, Siegmeister, and Loeffler. He has published more than one hundred articles on the history and literature of the saxophone in Saxophone Journal, The Instrumentalist,, Clarinet and Saxophone Society of Great Britain, The Grainger Society Journal, and The Saxophone Symposium.  His seminal column, “Vintage Saxophones Revisited,” was featured in Saxophone Journal from 1985-2002. 

Recent CDs include American Landscapes, Common Ground (chamber music), New York Rising (saxophone quartet), Heard Again for the First Time (premiering lost music), Soprano Summit  (soprano saxophone) Of Light and Solace (saxophone and organ) and Dances and Declamations (saxophone quartet).