Pinchas Zukerman Biography
Pinchas Zukerman is an Israeli-American world-renowned violinist, violist, and conductor. He is known for his work on Alice (1990), Pacific Heights (1990) and The Prince of Tides (1991). He was the musical director of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in Minnesota from 1980 to 1987.
Pinchas Zukerman Age
The renowned violinist was born on July 16, 1948, in Tel Aviv, Israel. His birth sign is cancer. Zuckerman is an American by nationality and he belongs to Israeli ethnicity.
Isaac Stern and Pablo Casals learned of Zukerman’s violin talent during a 1962 visit to Israel. Zukerman subsequently moved to the United States that year (1962) for study at the Juilliard School, under the tutelage of Stern and Ivan Galamian. Zuckerman made his New York debut in 1963.
Pinchas Zukerman Family
Pinchas was born to Jewish parents in Israeli Yehuda Zuckerman and Miriam Lieberman Zukerman. His father then taught him to play the clarinet and then the violin at age eight.
Pinchas Zukerman Wife | Is Pinchas Zukerman Married
Zuckerman has been married three times. He married Eugenia Rich in 1968 and they lived together until they divorced in 1985. They had two daughters together; Arianna Zukerman, opera singer, and Natalia Zukerman blues/folk musician.
He then married actress Tuesday Weld, from 1985 to 1998. Currently, Zuckerman is married to Amanda Forsyth (born 12 October 1966) a Canadian cellist and is the former principal cellist. The duo has been together since March 2004. They frequently appear as soloists together.
Pinchas Zukerman Education
Zukerman subsequently moved to the United States that year (1962) for study at the Juilliard School, under the tutelage of Stern and Ivan Galamian.
Pinchas Zukerman Career
He began his musical studies on the recorder at the age of four. His father taught him to play the clarinet and then the violin at the age of eight. Isaac Stern and Pablo Casals learned about the violin talent of Zukerman during a visit to Israel in 1962. He subsequently moved to the United States that year to study at the Juilliard School under the tutelage of Stern and Ivan Galamian. In 1963, he made his New York debut. He shared the Leventritt Prize with the Korean violinist Kyung-wha Chung in 1967.
His debut recordings of Tchaikovsky’s concerti in 1969 (under the direction of Antal Dorati with the London Symphony Orchestra) and Mendelssohn (with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic) launched a successful recording career that continues to this day and boasts over 110 releases. He began his conducting career with the English Chamber Orchestra in 1970 and served as director of London’s South Bank Festival from 1971 to 1974. Zukerman was music director of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra from 1980 to 1987 in the USA.
He later directed the Dallas Symphony Orchestra (1991–1995) and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (1996–1999) summer festivals. In 1999 he became Music Director of the National Arts Center Orchestra (NACO) in Ottawa, stepping down from the post in 2015. He has served as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s principal guest conductor since 2009.
He is on the faculty at the Manhattan School of Music and is the head and founder of the school’s Zukerman Performance Program. His former students included Koh Gabriel Kameda, Julian Rachlin, and Guy Braunstein. He founded the National Arts Center Young Artists Program in 1999, which counts as alumni young musicians such as Viviane Hagner, Jessica Linnebach, and Antal Szalai. In 2006 he began his involvement in the Rolex Artistic Mentorship program.
Zukerman plays the 1742 “Dushkin” Guarnerius del Gesù violin. His honors include the King Solomon Award, the National Medal of Arts (presented by President Reagan in 1983), the Isaac Stern Award for Artistic Excellence, and an honorary doctorate from Brown University.
Pinchas Zukerman Concert Schedule
OCTOBER 2019 7 8:00 PM Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall at Yerevan, Armenia
18 7:30 PM Zhuhai Concert Hall at Zhuhai, China
20 8:00 PM Shanghai Symphony Hall at Shanghai, China
22 7:30 PM Poly Theatre at Beijing, China
26 8:00 PM Tongyeong Concert Hall at Tongyeong, South Korea
31 11:00 AM Adelaide Town Hall at Adelaide, Australia
NOVEMBER 2019 1 8:00 PM Adelaide Town Hall at Adelaide, Australia
2 6:30 PM Adelaide Town Hall at Adelaide, Australia
12 7:30 PM Spaulding Auditorium at Hanover, NH
17 3:00 PM Concord Academy Performing Arts Center at Concord, MA
20 8:00 PM Southam Hall at Ottawa, Canada
21 8:00 PM Southam Hall at Ottawa, Canada
27 7:00 PM Southam Hall at Ottawa as Canada
DECEMBER 2019 7 7:30 PM Germantown Performing Arts Center at Memphis, TN
8 3:00 PM Brooks Museum at Memphis, TN
JANUARY 2020 13 7:30 PM Staatsoper at Berlin, Germany
14 8:00 PM Philharmonie Berlin – Großer Saal at Berlin at Germany
16 8:00 PM Alfredo Kraus Auditorium at Canary Islands
17 8:00 PM Auditorium of Tenerife Adán Martín at Canary Islands
22 7:30 PM Centennial Concert Hall at Tucson, AZ
23 7:30 PM McCallum Theatre at Palm Desert, CA
24 8:00 PM Great Hall at Northridge, CA
25 8:00 PM Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts at Davis, CA
26 3:00 PM Zellerbach Hall at Berkkeley, CA
27 8:00 PM Granada Theatre at Santa Barbara, CA
28 8:00 PM Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall at Costa Mesa, CA
FEBRUARY 2020 1 7:30 PM Embassy Theatre at Fort Wayne, IN
7 8:00 PM Helzberg Hall at Kansas City, MO
8 8:00 PM Helzberg Hall at Kansas City, MO
9 2:00 PM Helzberg Hall at Kansas City, MO
Pinchas Zukerman Net Worth And Salary
Zukerman’s estimated net worth is between $100,000 – $1M (USD). There is no exact figure of his net worth. We also don’t have information regarding his salary but it will be updated soon.
Pinchas Zukerman Mozart
Zukerman has chosen two relatively early works for violin and piano from Mozart and Beethoven, followed by an early and a late work by Brahms. Mozart’s Sonata in G Major K. 301 was the first of six violin sonatas from 1778.
Pinchas Zukerman Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
He has served as Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra since 2009.
Pinchas Zukerman Adelaide
The 2018-2019 season marks the 10th season of Pinchas Zukerman as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s chief guest conductor in London and his fourth season as an artist-in-association with the Australian Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. He leads the RPO on a UK and Ireland tour, performing works by Mozart and Vaughan Williams and participating in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto as a soloist.