Eugenia Zukerman

Eugenia Rich Zukerman (born September 25, 1944, Cambridge, MA) is an American flutist, writer, and journalist. An internationally renowned flute virtuoso, Mrs Zukerman has been performing with major orchestras and at major music festivals internationally for more than three decades. Since 1980 she has been the Classical Music Correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning where she has profiled hundreds of artists.[1] She is currently the Artistic Director of the lauded Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival.[2]

Biography

Eugenia Rich was initially an English major at Barnard College but decided to transfer to the Juilliard School in 1964 to pursue music studies under Julius Baker. She graduated in 1966 and two years later married the famous violinist Pinchas Zukerman.[3] The couple had two daughters together, opera singer Arianna Zukerman and blues/folk musician Natalia Zukerman.[4][5][6] They frequently appeared together in concert until their divorce in 1985.[1]

In 1969 Mrs Zukerman appeared at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Italy, and in 1970 she won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions.[7][8] The competition win led to her debut recital at New York City's Town Hall in 1971.[9] The recital was lauded by music critics and she was soon enganged to perform in concerts and recitals all over the world, including performances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Minnesota Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Israel Chamber Orchestra, and the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, D.C. to name just a few. Since 1998 she has been the Artistic Director of the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival which currently boasts three resident orchestras: the Rochester Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic.[2][10]

In 1980 Eugenia Zukerman joined the staff of CBS News Sunday Morning as its Classical Music Correspondent, a position she still currently holds. She has also contributed articles to The New York Times, The Washington Post, Esquire and Vogue. She has also published two novels, Deceptive Cadence (Viking, 1981) and Taking the Heat (Simon and Schuster, 1991).[11] She is also the editor and contributor to an anthology of essays entitled In My Mother's Closet (Sorin Books, 2003), which includes entries by accomplished women on their thoughts on the mother/daughter relationship. Other contributors to the anthology include Renée Fleming, Carrie Fisher, Joy Behar, Judy Collins, Erica Jong and Claire Bloom.[12] The anthology was featured in the April 2003 edition of O, The Oprah Magazine. Eugenia Zukerman also co-authored a non-fiction work, Coping with Prednisone (and Other Cortisone-Related Medicines): It May Work Miracles but How Do You Handle the Side Effects (St. Martin's Press, 1997), with her sister Julie Rich Inglefinger, M.D. The book chronicles Mrs Zukerman's own experience with the side effects of a medication she took when she was suffering from eosinophilic pneumonitis, which she battled in 1995–1996. [13]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Eugenia Zukerman at All Music Guide
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Biography of Eugenia Zukerman at www.vailmusicfestival.org
  3. ↑ New York Times, October 10, 1980
  4. ↑ New York Times, March 11, 1979
  5. ↑ www.westword.com
  6. ↑ Arianna Zukerman, Peter Sekulow — New York Times
  7. ↑ New York Times, July 3, 1969
  8. ↑ New York Times, November 22, 1970
  9. ↑ New York Times, March 10, 1971
  10. ↑ New York Times, July 18, 1997
  11. ↑ New York Times, March 10, 1991
  12. ↑ jhu.edu
  13. ↑ New York Times, October 18, 1998

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