Arianna Zukerman
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Arianna Zukerman is an American lyric soprano
who has performed with some of the world's finest orchestras and opera
companies. Her voice was described in the Washington Post as "remarkable" combining the "range, warmth and facility of a Rossini mezzo with shimmering, round high notes and exquisite pianissimos."
is a noted violin
ist and conductor
and her mother Eugenia Zukerman
is a flautist
, writer, and correspondent for the arts on the television program, CBS Sunday Morning. Zukerman has one younger sibling, Natalia Zukerman
, who is a noted singer and songwriter.
Zukerman initially studied theatre at Brown University
but then transferred to the Juilliard School
where she earned a Bachelor of Music in vocal studies. During this time, Zukerman also studied at the Chautauqua Institution
's summer opera training program with Marlena Malas from 1993–1997. While in this program she performed the roles of Ginerva in Handel
's Ariodante
in 1996 and the title role in Handel's Alcina
in 1997 under the direction of Chas Rader-Schieber.
In 1997, Zukerman made her professional opera debut with the Berkshire Opera Company
as Barbarina in Mozart
's Le nozze di Figaro
. She returned to Berkshire the following year to perform and record the role of Anna Gomez in Gian Carlo Menotti
's The Consul
. This was the first complete recording made of that opera. In the Spring of 1999, she made her debut with Opera Illinois as Susanna in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro.
In March 1999 Zukerman entered the Bavarian State Opera
's Young Artist program where she stayed for one year. While in Munich, she performed the roles of Prinzessin Nicoletta in Prokofiev's
Die Liebe zu den drei Orangen, Die Scheppträgerin in Richard Strauss
' Elektra
, Barbarina in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro and Taumännchen in Humperdinck
's Hänsel und Gretel among others. She also covered for several roles including the parts of Marzelline in Beethoven
's Fidelio
and Ginevra in Handel's Ariodante. Also during this time Zukerman returned to the United States in 2000 to perform the role of Wilma in the world premiere of Jean-Michel Damase
's opera Ochelata's Wedding at the OK Mozart Festival, Nanetta in Verdi
's Falstaff
with Opera Illinois, and Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni
with the Berkshire Opera Company.
In the 2001-2002 season she performed the role of Barbarina in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro with the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon
under the baton of Lawrence Foster
. She also sang the world premiere of Libby Larsen
's Notes Slipped Under the Door and made her debut with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
under conductor Ivor Bolton
with whom she sang the soprano solo in Mozart's C Minor Mass and the roles of Solomon's Queen and the First Harlot in Handel
's Solomon
.
In the 2002-2003 season, Zukerman sang the role of Pamina in Mozart's The Magic Flute
with Chattanooga Opera, the role of the Governess in Britten's The Turn of the Screw
with Chicago Opera Theater
, and created the role of Nizza in the world premiere of Donizetti's long-lost opera Elisabeth at the Caramoor Music Festival
.
Also in 2002, Zukerman won the Willam Matheus Sullivan Foundation Singer Award which considerably raised her profile as an opera singer and helped Zukerman gain the attention of major opera houses and orchestras.
In the 2003-2004 season Zukerman gave performances with the Minnesota Orchestra
and at the Vail Valley Music Festival. She also sang with the Eos Orchestra in orchestrated and staged Schubert songs (staged by Peter Kazaras), made her debut with the Colorado Symphony singing Handel's Messiah with Marin Alsop
, and sang Verdi's Requiem with the UC Davis Symphony and the Cathedral Choral Society
in Washington, D.C.
.
In the 2004-2005 season Zukerman made her debut with Arizona Opera
in the role of Despina in Mozart's Così fan tutte
, her debut with Cedar Rapids Opera as Susanna in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, and sang the role of Micaela in Bizet's Carmen
with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra
. She performed with the American Bach Soloists
as the soprano soloist in their production of Handel
's Messiah
, the Rochester Philharmonic in Mahler's Symphony No. 4 , the U.C. Davis Symphony in Mahler's Symphony No. 2, the University Musical Society
in Haydn's Creation, and performances with Red, the Vermeer Quartet
, and the Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra. She also sang at the Savannah Music Festival
and a gave a concert of Bach
arias in New York.
In the 2005-2006 season Zukerman made her debut with the New York City Opera
in the roles of Tisiphone, Charito, and Aphrodite in Mark Adamo
's Lysistrata
and returned to Chattanooga Opera to perform the role of Euridice in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice
. She also sang Mozart's Exultate, jubilate with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
and Jackson Symphony Orchestra, and sang Haydn's Creation with the Chattanooga Symphony. She also appeared as a soloist in the holiday concerts presented at the Kennedy Center by The Choral Arts Society of Washington.
In the 2006-2007 season Zukerman made her debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra
under James Levine
in Schoenberg
's Moses und Aron
, sang under her father's baton in the National Arts Centre Orchestra
's production of Verdi's Requiem
, and performed in two productions of the Messiah with the Rochester Philharmonic and the Virginia symphony. Zukerman also performed the role of Susanna in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro with the National Philharmonic, appeared as a soloist at the Kennedy Center's New Year's Eve Gala, gave a concert of Mozart arias at the University of California at Davis, and performed as a soloist in Dvořák
's Stabat Mater with the Chancel Choir in Dallas. Zukerman also toured the United States with the Miami String Quartet
and made her first collaboration with Lorin Maazel
as Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia in performances at the conductor's farm in Virginia.
In the summer of 2007 Zukerman made her debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra
as soloist in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. The performances took place at the Mann Center in Philadelphia, at the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival
with Rossen Milanov conducting; and at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center with Charles Dutoit
conducting. She also sang Mozart's Regina Coeli and Coronation Mass with the New Hampshire Music Festival.
In the 2007-08 season Zukerman performed with Music of the Baroque
, the Gulbenkian Orchestra
in Lisbon
, the National Philharmonic, the Long Island Philharmonic
, the Rapides Symphony Orchestra, the American Classical Orchestra
, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra
, and the National Philharmonic Orchestra
. She also performed the role of Musetta in Puccini's La bohème
in a concert version with the Philadelphia Orchestra
. In addition, she gave a recital of Schumann lieder with pianist Marc Neikrug and perform with the Miami String Quartet
at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
in July 2008.
Since 2008, Zukerman has been on the voice faculty of the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music of The Catholic University of America.
hockey team.
Lyric soprano
A lyric soprano is a type of operatic soprano that has a warm quality with a bright, full timbre which can be heard over an orchestra. The lyric soprano voice generally has a higher tessitura than a soubrette and usually plays ingenues and other sympathetic characters in opera. Lyric sopranos have...
who has performed with some of the world's finest orchestras and opera
Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
companies. Her voice was described in the Washington Post as "remarkable" combining the "range, warmth and facility of a Rossini mezzo with shimmering, round high notes and exquisite pianissimos."
Early life and education
Arianna Zukerman was born on December 7, 1972. Her father Pinchas ZukermanPinchas Zukerman
Pinchas Zukerman is a world-renowned violinist, violist, and conductor. He is considered one of the greatest violinists of the 20th and 21st centuries, and his ongoing 45-year career has seen him perform with the world's best-known orchestras and record over 100 works...
is a noted violin
Violin
The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
ist and conductor
Conducting
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...
and her mother Eugenia Zukerman
Eugenia Zukerman
Eugenia Rich Zukerman 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...
is a flautist
Flautist
A flautist or flutist is a musician who plays an instrument in the flute family. See List of flautists.The choice of "flautist" versus "flutist" is the source of dispute among players of the instrument...
, writer, and correspondent for the arts on the television program, CBS Sunday Morning. Zukerman has one younger sibling, Natalia Zukerman
Natalia Zukerman
Natalia Zukerman is an American artist and musician raised in Manhattan, New York. She is the daughter of violist/conductor Pinchas Zukerman and flutist/writer Eugenia Zukerman, and the sister of opera singer Arianna Zukerman...
, who is a noted singer and songwriter.
Zukerman initially studied theatre at Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
but then transferred to the Juilliard School
Juilliard School
The Juilliard School, located at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, United States, is a performing arts conservatory which was established in 1905...
where she earned a Bachelor of Music in vocal studies. During this time, Zukerman also studied at the Chautauqua Institution
Chautauqua Institution
The Chautauqua Institution is a non-profit adult education center and summer resort located on 750 acres in Chautauqua, New York, 17 miles northwest of Jamestown in the western part of New York State...
's summer opera training program with Marlena Malas from 1993–1997. While in this program she performed the roles of Ginerva in Handel
George Frideric Handel
George Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music...
's Ariodante
Ariodante
Ariodante is an opera seria in three acts by Handel. The anonymous Italian libretto was based on a work by Antonio Salvi, which in turn was adapted from Canti 5 and 6 of Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso...
in 1996 and the title role in Handel's Alcina
Alcina
Alcina is an opera seria by George Frideric Handel. Handel used the libretto of L'isola di Alcina, an opera that was set in 1728 in Rome by Riccardo Broschi, which he acquired the year after, during his travels in Italy...
in 1997 under the direction of Chas Rader-Schieber.
In 1997, Zukerman made her professional opera debut with the Berkshire Opera Company
Berkshire Opera Company
The Berkshire Opera Company was an American opera company located in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The company was founded in 1985 by Rex Hearn and closed in 2009...
as Barbarina in Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
's Le nozze di Figaro
The Marriage of Figaro
Le nozze di Figaro, ossia la folle giornata , K. 492, is an opera buffa composed in 1786 in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro .Although the play by...
. She returned to Berkshire the following year to perform and record the role of Anna Gomez in Gian Carlo Menotti
Gian Carlo Menotti
Gian Carlo Menotti was an Italian-American composer and librettist. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship. He wrote the classic Christmas opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors, among about two dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular...
's The Consul
The Consul
The Consul is an opera in three acts with music and libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti, his first full-length opera. Its first performance was on March 1, 1950, at the Shubert Theatre in Philadelphia with Patricia Neway as the lead heroine Magda Sorel, Gloria Lane as the secretary of the consulate,...
. This was the first complete recording made of that opera. In the Spring of 1999, she made her debut with Opera Illinois as Susanna in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro.
In March 1999 Zukerman entered the Bavarian State Opera
Bavarian State Opera
The Bavarian State Opera is an opera company based in Munich, Germany.Its orchestra is the Bavarian State Orchestra.- History:The opera company which was founded under Princess Henriette Adelaide of Savoy has been in existence since 1653...
's Young Artist program where she stayed for one year. While in Munich, she performed the roles of Prinzessin Nicoletta in Prokofiev's
Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...
Die Liebe zu den drei Orangen, Die Scheppträgerin in Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss
Richard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems and orchestral works, such as Death and Transfiguration, Till...
' Elektra
Elektra (opera)
Elektra is a one-act opera by Richard Strauss, to a German-language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which he adapted from his 1903 drama Elektra. The opera was the first of many collaborations between Strauss and Hofmannsthal...
, Barbarina in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro and Taumännchen in Humperdinck
Engelbert Humperdinck
Engelbert Humperdinck was a German composer, best known for his opera, Hänsel und Gretel. Humperdinck was born at Siegburg in the Rhine Province; at the age of 67 he died in Neustrelitz, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.-Life:After receiving piano lessons, Humperdinck produced his first composition...
's Hänsel und Gretel among others. She also covered for several roles including the parts of Marzelline in Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
's Fidelio
Fidelio
Fidelio is a German opera in two acts by Ludwig van Beethoven. It is Beethoven's only opera. The German libretto is by Joseph Sonnleithner from the French of Jean-Nicolas Bouilly which had been used for the 1798 opera Léonore, ou L’amour conjugal by Pierre Gaveaux, and for the 1804 opera Leonora...
and Ginevra in Handel's Ariodante. Also during this time Zukerman returned to the United States in 2000 to perform the role of Wilma in the world premiere of Jean-Michel Damase
Jean-Michel Damase
Jean-Michel Damase is a French pianist, conductor and composer of classical music.Damase was studying with Marcel Samuel-Rousseau at age five and composing by age nine...
's opera Ochelata's Wedding at the OK Mozart Festival, Nanetta in Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of the 19th century...
's Falstaff
Falstaff (opera)
Falstaff is an operatic commedia lirica in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, adapted by Arrigo Boito from Shakespeare's plays The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV. It was Verdi's last opera, written in the composer's ninth decade, and only the second of his 26 operas to be a comedy...
with Opera Illinois, and Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and with an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the Teatro di Praga on October 29, 1787...
with the Berkshire Opera Company.
Career
After leaving the Bavarian State Opera in March 2000, Zukerman returned to the United States and began performing lead opera roles in regional houses across the United States as well as occasionale performances in Europe, including several recitals in Spain with pianists Brian Zeger and Mikael Eliasen.In the 2001-2002 season she performed the role of Barbarina in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro with the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon
Lisbon
Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...
under the baton of Lawrence Foster
Lawrence Foster
Lawrence Foster is an American conductor.He became the conductor of the San Francisco Ballet at the age of 18, and served as Assistant Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta...
. She also sang the world premiere of Libby Larsen
Libby Larsen
Libby Larsen is one of America’s most performed living composers. She has created a catalogue of over 400 works spanning virtually every genre from intimate vocal and chamber music to massive orchestral works and over fifteen operas...
's Notes Slipped Under the Door and made her debut with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra is the leading symphony orchestra in Israel. It was originally known as the Palestine Orchestra, and in Hebrew as התזמורת הסימפונית הארץ ישראלית The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (abbreviation IPO; Hebrew: התזמורת הפילהרמונית הישראלית, ha-Tizmoret ha-Filharmonit...
under conductor Ivor Bolton
Ivor Bolton
Ivor Bolton is an English conductor and harpsichordist. He studied at Clare College and at the Royal College of Music...
with whom she sang the soprano solo in Mozart's C Minor Mass and the roles of Solomon's Queen and the First Harlot in Handel
HANDEL
HANDEL was the code-name for the UK's National Attack Warning System in the Cold War. It consisted of a small console consisting of two microphones, lights and gauges. The reason behind this was to provide a back-up if anything failed....
's Solomon
Solomon (Handel)
Solomon, HWV 67, is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel. Its libretto is based on the biblical stories of wise king Solomon and is attributed to Newburgh Hamilton...
.
In the 2002-2003 season, Zukerman sang the role of Pamina in Mozart's The Magic Flute
The Magic Flute
The Magic Flute is an opera in two acts composed in 1791 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a Singspiel, a popular form that included both singing and spoken dialogue....
with Chattanooga Opera, the role of the Governess in Britten's The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw (opera)
The Turn of the Screw is a 20th century English chamber opera composed by Benjamin Britten with a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, "wife of the artist John Piper, who had been a friend of the composer since 1935 and had provided designs for several of the operas". The libretto is based on the novella...
with Chicago Opera Theater
Chicago Opera Theater
The Chicago Opera Theater is an opera company that was founded as the Chicago Opera Studio in 1974 by Alan Stone to give vocal students performance experience, although it has grown into a professional opera company...
, and created the role of Nizza in the world premiere of Donizetti's long-lost opera Elisabeth at the Caramoor Music Festival
Caramoor International Music Festival
The Caramoor International Music Festival is a summer music festival founded in 1945 that is held on the estate of the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts Inc., which includes a Mediterranean-style stucco villa and is located about north of New York City in Katonah, New York.The Caramoor...
.
Also in 2002, Zukerman won the Willam Matheus Sullivan Foundation Singer Award which considerably raised her profile as an opera singer and helped Zukerman gain the attention of major opera houses and orchestras.
In the 2003-2004 season Zukerman gave performances with the Minnesota Orchestra
Minnesota Orchestra
The Minnesota Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.Emil Oberhoffer founded the orchestra as the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra in 1903, and it gave its first performance on November 5 of that year. In 1968 the orchestra changed to its name to the Minnesota Orchestra...
and at the Vail Valley Music Festival. She also sang with the Eos Orchestra in orchestrated and staged Schubert songs (staged by Peter Kazaras), made her debut with the Colorado Symphony singing Handel's Messiah with Marin Alsop
Marin Alsop
Marin Alsop is an American conductor and violinist. She is the music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.In 2012, Alsop will replace Yan Pascal Tortelier as principal conductor of the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra....
, and sang Verdi's Requiem with the UC Davis Symphony and the Cathedral Choral Society
Cathedral Choral Society
The Cathedral Choral Society is a 200-voice symphonic chorus based at the Washington National Cathedral. J. Reilly Lewis has been music director since 1985. He succeeded Paul Callaway, who founded the group in 1941...
in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
.
In the 2004-2005 season Zukerman made her debut with Arizona Opera
Arizona Opera
Arizona Opera is an opera company which operates in both Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona.Arizona Opera was established in 1971 as the Tucson Opera Company, under founding general director James P. Sullivan, and presented its first production, of Rossini's The Barber of Seville, in 1972. By 1976 the...
in the role of Despina in Mozart's Così fan tutte
Così fan tutte
Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti K. 588, is an opera buffa by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart first performed in 1790. The libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte....
, her debut with Cedar Rapids Opera as Susanna in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, and sang the role of Micaela in Bizet's Carmen
Carmen
Carmen is a French opéra comique by Georges Bizet. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, first published in 1845, itself possibly influenced by the narrative poem The Gypsies by Alexander Pushkin...
with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra. It performs its concerts in the Meyerson Symphony Center in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, United States....
. She performed with the American Bach Soloists
American Bach Soloists
The American Bach Soloists is an American baroque orchestra and early music chorus dedicated to preserving the heritage of early music through historically informed performances on period instruments, community outreach through free educational programs, and the development of young artists...
as the soprano soloist in their production of Handel
HANDEL
HANDEL was the code-name for the UK's National Attack Warning System in the Cold War. It consisted of a small console consisting of two microphones, lights and gauges. The reason behind this was to provide a back-up if anything failed....
's Messiah
Messiah (Handel)
Messiah is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel, with a scriptural text compiled by Charles Jennens from the King James Bible and the Book of Common Prayer. It was first performed in Dublin on 13 April 1742, and received its London premiere nearly a year later...
, the Rochester Philharmonic in Mahler's Symphony No. 4 , the U.C. Davis Symphony in Mahler's Symphony No. 2, the University Musical Society
University Musical Society
The University Musical Society is a not-for-profit performing arts presenter located on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was established in December 1880...
in Haydn's Creation, and performances with Red, the Vermeer Quartet
Vermeer Quartet
The Vermeer Quartet was a string quartet founded in 1969 at the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont and active until 2007.With performances in practically every major city in North and South America, Europe, the Far East, and Australia, the Vermeer Quartet achieved an international stature as one of...
, and the Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra. She also sang at the Savannah Music Festival
Savannah music festival
The Savannah Music Festival is Georgia's largest musical arts festival. The festival is a cross-genre event that celebrates both the musical heritage of the South and international musicians. The festival is held annually over eighteen consecutive days in the springtime in Savannah, Georgia...
and a gave a concert of Bach
Bạch
Bạch is a Vietnamese surname. The name is transliterated as Bai in Chinese and Baek, in Korean.Bach is the anglicized variation of the surname Bạch.-Notable people with the surname Bạch:* Bạch Liêu...
arias in New York.
In the 2005-2006 season Zukerman made her debut with the New York City Opera
New York City Opera
The New York City Opera is an American opera company located in New York City.The company, called "the people's opera" by New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, was founded in 1943 with the aim of making opera financially accessible to a wide audience, producing an innovative choice of repertory, and...
in the roles of Tisiphone, Charito, and Aphrodite in Mark Adamo
Mark Adamo
Mark Adamo is an Italian American composer and librettist born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. While he has composed the symphonic cantata "Late Victorians, "Four Angels: Concerto for Harp and Orchestra," and six substantial choral works, the composer’s principal work has been for the opera house:...
's Lysistrata
Lysistrata
Lysistrata is one of eleven surviving plays written by Aristophanes. Originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC, it is a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end The Peloponnesian War...
and returned to Chattanooga Opera to perform the role of Euridice in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice
Orfeo ed Euridice
Orfeo ed Euridice is an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck based on the myth of Orpheus, set to a libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi. It belongs to the genre of the azione teatrale, meaning an opera on a mythological subject with choruses and dancing...
. She also sang Mozart's Exultate, jubilate with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The orchestra's home is Heinz Hall, located in Pittsburgh's Cultural District.-History:...
and Jackson Symphony Orchestra, and sang Haydn's Creation with the Chattanooga Symphony. She also appeared as a soloist in the holiday concerts presented at the Kennedy Center by The Choral Arts Society of Washington.
In the 2006-2007 season Zukerman made her debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Boston Symphony Orchestra
The Boston Symphony Orchestra is an orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five". Founded in 1881, the BSO plays most of its concerts at Boston's Symphony Hall and in the summer performs at the Tanglewood Music Center...
under James Levine
James Levine
James Lawrence Levine is an American conductor and pianist. He is currently the music director of the Metropolitan Opera and former music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Levine's first performance conducting the Metropolitan Opera was on June 5, 1971, and as of May 2011 he has...
in Schoenberg
Schoenberg
Schoenberg is the surname of several persons:* Arnold Schoenberg , Austrian-American composer* Claude-Michel Schoenberg , French record producer, actor, singer, popular songwriter, and musical theatre composer...
's Moses und Aron
Moses und Aron
Moses und Aron is a three-act opera by Arnold Schoenberg with the third act unfinished. The German libretto was by the composer after the Book of Exodus.-Compositional history:...
, sang under her father's baton in the National Arts Centre Orchestra
National Arts Centre Orchestra
The National Arts Centre Orchestra is an orchestra in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada's capital. It is a classically-sized ensemble currently conducted by Pinchas Zukerman.-Description:Since 1998, Pinchas Zukerman has been the Music Director. Mario Bernardi C.C...
's production of Verdi's Requiem
Requiem
A Requiem or Requiem Mass, also known as Mass for the dead or Mass of the dead , is a Mass celebrated for the repose of the soul or souls of one or more deceased persons, using a particular form of the Roman Missal...
, and performed in two productions of the Messiah with the Rochester Philharmonic and the Virginia symphony. Zukerman also performed the role of Susanna in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro with the National Philharmonic, appeared as a soloist at the Kennedy Center's New Year's Eve Gala, gave a concert of Mozart arias at the University of California at Davis, and performed as a soloist in Dvořák
Antonín Dvorák
Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many...
's Stabat Mater with the Chancel Choir in Dallas. Zukerman also toured the United States with the Miami String Quartet
Miami String Quartet
The Miami String Quartet is an American string quartet. The group was founded in 1988 at The New World School of the Arts by John de Lancie in Miami, Florida, and is now Quartet in Residence at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, where all four members serve as faculty members in the School of...
and made her first collaboration with Lorin Maazel
Lorin Maazel
Lorin Varencove Maazel is an American conductor, violinist and composer.- Early life :Maazel was born to Jewish-American parents in Neuilly-sur-Seine in France and brought up in the United States, primarily at his parents' home in Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood. His father, Lincoln Maazel , was...
as Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia in performances at the conductor's farm in Virginia.
In the summer of 2007 Zukerman made her debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra
Philadelphia Orchestra
The Philadelphia Orchestra is a symphony orchestra based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. One of the "Big Five" American orchestras, it was founded in 1900...
as soloist in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. The performances took place at the Mann Center in Philadelphia, at the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival
Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival
The Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival is an annual summer classical music festival located in Vail, Colorado. The festival was founded in 1987 by violinist Ida Kavafian and attorney John Giovando with the initial purpose of presenting a concert series of chamber music...
with Rossen Milanov conducting; and at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center with Charles Dutoit
Charles Dutoit
Charles Édouard Dutoit, is a Swiss conductor, particularly noted for his interpretations of French and Russian 20th century music...
conducting. She also sang Mozart's Regina Coeli and Coronation Mass with the New Hampshire Music Festival.
In the 2007-08 season Zukerman performed with Music of the Baroque
Music of the Baroque
Music of the Baroque is a professional chorus and orchestra based in Chicago that specializes in the performance of eighteenth-century works.-History:...
, the Gulbenkian Orchestra
Gulbenkian Orchestra
The Gulbenkian Orchestra is a Portuguese symphony orchestra based in Lisbon. The orchestra primarily gives concerts at the Grande Auditório of the Gulbenkian Foundation....
in Lisbon
Lisbon
Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...
, the National Philharmonic, the Long Island Philharmonic
Long Island Philharmonic
The Long Island Philharmonic, based in Melville, New York was founded in 1979 by folk singer Harry Chapin, Maestro Christopher Keene, and a group of Long Island's major community and business leaders...
, the Rapides Symphony Orchestra, the American Classical Orchestra
American Classical Orchestra
The American Classical Orchestra is "devoted to preserving and performing the repertoire of 17th- to 19th-century composers, playing the works on original or reproduced period instruments...
, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra
Vermont Symphony Orchestra
The Vermont Symphony Orchestra is a symphony orchestra based in, and supported in part by, the U.S. state of Vermont. It is a 501 corporation. It is one of the few, and the oldest, state-supported symphony orchestras in the United States....
, and the National Philharmonic Orchestra
National Philharmonic Orchestra
The National Philharmonic Orchestra was a British orchestra created exclusively for recording purposes. It was founded by RCA producer Charles Gerhardt and orchestra leader / contractor Sidney Sax due in part to the requirements of the Reader's Digest-History:...
. She also performed the role of Musetta in Puccini's La bohème
La bohème
La bohème is an opera in four acts,Puccini called the divisions quadro, a tableau or "image", rather than atto . by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger...
in a concert version with the Philadelphia Orchestra
Philadelphia Orchestra
The Philadelphia Orchestra is a symphony orchestra based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. One of the "Big Five" American orchestras, it was founded in 1900...
. In addition, she gave a recital of Schumann lieder with pianist Marc Neikrug and perform with the Miami String Quartet
Miami String Quartet
The Miami String Quartet is an American string quartet. The group was founded in 1988 at The New World School of the Arts by John de Lancie in Miami, Florida, and is now Quartet in Residence at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, where all four members serve as faculty members in the School of...
at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival is a six week long summer Festival of chamber music held annually in July and August and located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It was founded in 1972 and presented its first series of concerts in 1973. Well-known musicians and young performers appear each season in...
in July 2008.
Since 2008, Zukerman has been on the voice faculty of the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music of The Catholic University of America.
Personal life
In 2007, Zukerman married Peter L. Sekulow a group sales manager for the Washington CapitalsWashington Capitals
The Washington Capitals are a professional ice hockey team based in Washington, D.C. They are members of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . Since their founding in 1974, "The Caps" have won one conference championship to reach the 1998 Stanley Cup...
hockey team.
Recordings
- Soprano soloist, HandelHANDELHANDEL was the code-name for the UK's National Attack Warning System in the Cold War. It consisted of a small console consisting of two microphones, lights and gauges. The reason behind this was to provide a back-up if anything failed....
's Messiah with the American Bach SoloistsAmerican Bach SoloistsThe American Bach Soloists is an American baroque orchestra and early music chorus dedicated to preserving the heritage of early music through historically informed performances on period instruments, community outreach through free educational programs, and the development of young artists...
, 2005 - Gian Carlo MenottiGian Carlo MenottiGian Carlo Menotti was an Italian-American composer and librettist. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship. He wrote the classic Christmas opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors, among about two dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular...
's The ConsulThe ConsulThe Consul is an opera in three acts with music and libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti, his first full-length opera. Its first performance was on March 1, 1950, at the Shubert Theatre in Philadelphia with Patricia Neway as the lead heroine Magda Sorel, Gloria Lane as the secretary of the consulate,...
with the Berkshire Opera CompanyBerkshire Opera CompanyThe Berkshire Opera Company was an American opera company located in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The company was founded in 1985 by Rex Hearn and closed in 2009...
, 1999