ZAZOFSKY, PETER Peter Zazofsky
Violinist Peter Zazofsky enjoys a richly varied career that
includes performances with many of the great orchestras in America and Europe,
recitals in major music centers, recordings and tours as first violinist of
the Muir String Quartet.
A native of Boston, Zazofsky studied with Joseph Silverstein
before entering the Curtis Institute, where he studied with Ivan Galamian. Following
graduation in 1977, he won Third Prize in the Wieniawski Competition in Poland,
and First Prize in the 1979 Montreal International Violin Competition (the only
American to win this award). The next year, he won Second Prize in the Queen
Elisabeth Competition in Belgium.
Since then, he has performed repeatedly with the Boston Symphony,
the Berlin Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony,
who also featured him on tour in Hong Kong and Taiwan. He has toured the United
States as guest soloist of the Danish Radio Orchestra, and Israel with the Haifa
Symphony and the Israel Chamber Orchestra. Further appearances with the Amsterdam
Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and the Symphonies
of Toronto, Minnesota and Montreal have brought acclaim for his collaborations
with maestros Tennstedt, Ozawa, Onnandy, Zinman and Charles Dutoit, among others.
Long committed to music of our time, Peter Zazofsky has given
first performances of works written for him by composers in Holland, Belgium,
Denmark and Spain. He recently recorded music by Carbon, Chumbley and McKinley
in Warsaw, and the Concerti of Frederic Van Rossum in Brussels. With the Muir
Quartet, he has introduced new quartets by the American composers Joan Tower,
Richard Danielpour, Ezra Laderman and Lukas Foss. He holds the position of Associate
Professor of Violin and Chamber Music at Boston University.
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