Season 2014/2015
Concert
Pinchas Zukerman / Amanda Forsyth
Program
Max Bruch
Adagio on Celtic Melodies for cello and orchestra op.56
Kol Nidrei, variations on a Jewish theme for cello and orchestra op. 47
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concert for violin and orchestra n. 3 K 216 Straßburg
Interval
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony n° 2 in D major, op. 36
Artists
Conductor and violin
Pinchas Zukerman
Cello
Amanda Forsyth
PINCHAS ZUCKERMAN
Born in Tel Aviv in 1948 at age four he began to play flute and clarinet before switching to the violin. He studied at the Conservatory and the Academy of Music in his hometown, then transferred to the Juilliard School in New York. In this city he made his debut in 1963 and three years later he won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions. In 1969, he made his first of more than fifty recordings. The following year, leading the English Chamber Orchestra, he began his career as a conductor, nominated as the director of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra from 1980 to 1987, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra from 1991 to 1995, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra from 1996 to 1999 and the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa since 1999; since 2009 is also principal guest conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
