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PINCHAS ZUKERMAN
PERFORMS BACH
MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE
Thursday, November 9, 2017, 8pm
JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL
Friday, November 10, 2017, 8pm
Saturday, November 11, 2017, 8pm
Pinchas Zukerman, conductor & violin
Johann Sebastian Bach Concerto No. 1 in A Minor

for Violin and String Orchestra, BWV 1041

Allegro moderato
Andante

Allegro assai

Pinchas Zukerman
Arnold Schoenberg
Verklärte Nacht, op. 4 (1943 revision)
INTERMISSION
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 2 in D Major, op. 36

Adagio molto –Allegro con brio
Larghetto

Scherzo: Allegro

Allegro molto
The concert will end at approximately 10pm.
PRESENTING SPONSOR:
About the Artists
Pinchas
Zukerman
Pinchas Zukerman has
remained a phenomenon
in the world of classical
music for over four
decades. His musical genius, prodigious
technique and u nwavering artistic
standards are a marvel to audiences and
critics. Devoted to the next generation
of musicians, he has inspired younger
artists with his magnetism and passion.
Zukerman is equally respected as
violinist, violist, conductor, pedagogue
and chamber musician.
Zukerman’s 2017 summer engagements
included appearances at Tanglewood
and Ravinia, in Spain and Japan and a
South American tour of Chile, Brazil and
Argentina. 2017–2018 marks his ninth
season as Principal Guest Conductor of the
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London
and his third as artist-in-association with
the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. As a
soloist and conductor, Zukerman leads
the San Diego, Nashville and New West
symphonies; the National Arts Centre
Orchestra; and the Vancouver Symphony
Orchestra. He tours with Camerata
Salzburg in Romania, Turkey, Hungary,
Germany and Italy and with the Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra in the U.S., U.K.
and Italy. As a soloist, he appears with the
San Francisco Symphony, Manchester
Camerata, Prague Symphony Orchestra,
and Pacific Symphony Orchestra in
California and on tour in China. He joins
Itzhak Perlman for a gala performance of
Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with the
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie

Hall. The duo also appears in recitals with
pianist Rohan De Silva in Boston, Newark,
Miami and West Palm Beach. As the
founding member of the Zukerman Trio,
he travels with the ensemble to Savannah,
Detroit, Chicago, Sedona and Germany.
A devoted and innovative pedagogue,
Zukerman chairs the Pinchas Zukerman
Performance Program at the Manhattan
School of Music. In Canada, where he
served as Music Director of the National
Arts Centre Orchestra from 1999–2015,
he established the NAC Institute for
Orchestra Studies and the Summer Music
Institute encompassing the Young Artists,
Conductors and Composers Programs. He
currently serves as Conductor Emeritus
of the National Arts Centre Orchestra,
as well as Artistic Director of its Young
Artist Program.
Born in Tel Aviv in 1948, Zukerman
came to America in 1962, studying at The
Juilliard School with Ivan Galamian as a
recipient of the American Israel Cultural
Federation scholarship. Zukerman has
received honorary doctorates from Brown
University, University of Calgary and
Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.
He has been awarded the Medal of
Arts, the Isaac Stern Award for Artistic
Excellence and was appointed as the
Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative’s
first instrumentalist mentor in the music
discipline. Zukerman’s discography
contains over 100 titles and has earned
him two Grammy® Awards and 21
nominations. His complete recordings
for Deutsche Grammophon and Philips
were released in July 2016, in a 22-disc
set. Recent releases include Baroque
Treasury on Analekta with the National
Arts Centre Orchestra, cellist Amanda
Forsyth and oboist Charles Hamann in
works by Handel, Bach, Vivaldi, Telemann
and Tartini; Brahms’ Symphony No. 4
and Double Concerto with the National
Arts Centre Orchestra and Forsyth; and
a critically acclaimed album of works by
Elgar and Vaughan Williams with the
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Pinchas Zukerman last appeared with the BSO
in September 2014, performing Beethoven's
Violin Concerto, Marin Alsop, conductor.
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