Violinist/violist Pinchas Zukerman by Skyler

Pinchas Zukerman Violinist/Violist

Facts
Genre: Classical
Country: Israel
Born: July 16, 1948
He is known for being an exceptional violinist, violist, and conductor

Biography: Pinchas Zukerman was born in Tel Aviv, Israel on July 16, 1948. His father Yehuda Zukerman taught him how to play violin at age seven and Pinchas was studying at the Tel Aviv Academy of Music at age eight. He later moved to New York and enrolled in the Julliard School at age 12. Zukerman studied under Ivan Galamian. His career began with his New York debut at the Lincoln Center in 1969. He had married flautist Eugenia Zukerman in 1968. Zukerman became director of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in 1980. Zukerman got a divorce in ’83 and married actress Tuesday Weld in ’85. In 1998 they divorced. In the same year Zukerman accepted conductorship at Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa. He now has been married to Amanda Forsyth for six years, the principal cellist in the NAC Orchestra. He is also on the faculty at the Manhattan School of Music. He travels on occasion on tours for concerts as a soloist, chamber musician, and conductor.

CDs
Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas CD
Bach Violin Concertos
Masters of the Bow
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Symphonies 2 & 3 by Schubert, Pinchas, and Zuckerman (Audio CD - 2002)
Romantic Violin / Itzhak Perlman · Pinchas Zukerman · Erick Friedman · Anne Akiko Meyers by Edward Elgar, Maurice Ravel, Camille Saint-Saens, Johannes Brahms, and Felix Mendelssohn (Audio CD - 2001)
Beethoven: Piano Concerto; Violin Romances [Netherlands] by Ludwig van Beethoven, Daniel Barenboim, English Chamber Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, and Pinchas Zukerman (Audio CD - 1989)
Itzhak Perlman & Pinchas Zuckerman play music for two violins by MOSZKOWSKI, SHOSTAKOVICH, PROKOFIEV, Samuel Sanders, and Itzhak Perlman
Zukerman Conducts Mozart by Amanda Forsyth, Kimball Sykes, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Pinchas Zukerman, and National Arts Centre Orchestra
Violin: Greatest Hits by Johann Sebastian Bach, Camille Saint-Saens, Johannes Brahms, Felix [1] Mendelssohn, and Alexander Borodin

Videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx2j_oIh-C0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7UjMANGKbE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CZsLCBKziQ&feature=related