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Guest Artist Bio

Pinchas Zukerman

Pinchas Zukerman – a phenomenon in the world of music for four decades – was appointed music director of Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra in 1998, the fifth conductor to lead the 60-member ensemble. In addition, he chairs the Pinchas Zukerman Performance Program at the Manhattan School of Music and serves as principal guest conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London.

The 2009/10 season also includes more than 100 performances by Zukerman on five continents, including tours with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Europe and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in the United States. At these concerts, he returns to Portland to perform with the Oregon Symphony for the first time since 1995.

Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1948, Zukerman studied music with his father, first on the recorder and clarinet and later on the violin. He soon began lessons with Ilona Feher and came to America in 1962 with the support of Isaac Stern, Pablo Casals and the America-Israel and Helena Rubenstein Foundations. He began his studies at The Juilliard School with Ivan Galamian and in 1967 was named first-prize winner of the 25th Leventritt Competition.

He holds an honorary doctorate from Brown University and an achievement award from the International Center in New York. He was presented with the King Solomon Award by the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, and in 1983 President Ronald Reagan awarded him the Medal of Arts. In 2002 he became the first recipient of the Isaac Stern Award for Artistic Excellence at the National Arts Awards Gala in New York City, and in May 2006 he was appointed as the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative's first instrumentalist mentor in the music discipline.

Zukerman is married to cellist Amanda Forsyth and is father to two daughters, Arianna and Natalia.

 

 

 

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