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With a celebrated career encompassing five decades, Pinchas Zukerman reigns as one of today’s most sought after and versatile musicians – violin and viola soloist, conductor, and chamber musician. He is admired for the expressive lyricism of his playing, singular beauty of tone, and impeccable musicianship, heard throughout his discography of more than 100 albums for which he gained two Grammy awards and 21 nominations.

Highlights of the 2021-22 season include performances with the Israel Philharmonic, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lyon, and Dallas Symphony Orchestra. With the Zukerman Trio, he visits the Ravinia, Aspen, and Amelia Island Chamber Music Festivals, as well as Parlance Chamber Concerts in New Jersey and Washington & Lee University. With cellist Amanda Forsyth, he appears with the English Chamber Orchestra, MAV Symphony Orchestra in Budapest, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Reading and New Bedford Symphonies. He and Forsyth also performed on a North American tour with the Jerusalem String Quartet.

Last season, in addition to live performances, he performed a virtual recital presented by Peoples’ Symphony Concerts and Shai Wosner for Chamber Music Society of Detroit.

A devoted teacher and champion of young musicians, he has served as chair of the Pinchas Zukerman Performance Program at the Manhattan School of Music for more than 25 years and has taught at prominent institutions throughout the United Kingdom, Israel, China and Canada, among others. This fall, he proudly joined the Dallas Symphony Orchestra as its artistic and principal education partner for the next two seasons. He will collaborate with DSO in partnership with Southern Methodist University’s Meadows School of the Arts, where he provides intensive coaching and tutoring sessions for Meadows’s music students.

As a mentor, he has inspired generations of young musicians who have achieved prominence in performing, teaching, and leading roles with music festivals around the globe. Pinchas has received honorary doctorates from Brown University, Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and the University of Calgary, as well as the National Medal of Arts from President Ronald Reagan. He is a recipient of the Isaac Stern Award for Artistic Excellence in Classical Music.