Paul zukofsky biography
Remembering Paul Zukofsky - Tarisio.
(b Brooklyn, NY, 22 Oct 1943, d Hong Kong, 6 June 2017) American violinist and conductor, started music lessons when he was three and the violin at four.
Two years later he first played in public, and at seven became a student of Ivan Galamian.
Paul zukofsky biography
He made his first orchestral appearance in 1953 with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, and a formal début recital at Carnegie Hall in 1956.
He specialized in 20th-century music, and premièred concertos by Sessions (for violin, cello and orchestra), Wuorinen (for amplified violin and orchestra), Feldman (for violin and orchestra), the Scottish composer Iain Hamilton, Philip Glass, as well as works by Babbitt, Cage, Carter, Crumb, Kondo, Leifs, Schnabel, Sveinsson, Xenakis, etc.
One of the original Creative Associates at the Center for Creative and Performing Arts, SUNY, Buffalo, in 1964, Zukofsky taught at the New England Conservatory, the Berkshire Music Center, The Manhattan School, The Juilliard School (where he taught chamber m