Music by Clara Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn, and Amy Beach for voice, cello & piano
Part of the Tucson Desert Song Festival

In demand from New York to China as an orchestral soloist, chamber musician and recitalist, Eugenia Zukerman has been praised by The New York Times for her performances — “Her musicianship is consummate, her taste immaculate and her stage presence a sheer pleasure.” She has enjoyed musical collaborations with Emmanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, the Shanghai String Quartet and fellow flutists Jean- Pierre Rampal and James Galway.

As a recitalist, Eugenia Zukerman has been lauded not only for her playing, but also for her adventurous programming. As The Sunday Telegram observed, “Few major instrumentalists offer anything comparable to the intelligence and breadth of programming that she brings to her concerts, and this one was no exception.” The Capital Times concurred, “What made this concert so noteworthy was not only the unusual music that Zukerman played with world-class virtuosity and musicality, but also her presentation and stage presence.”  For twenty years she performed a yearly three-concert series of thematic programs at the New York Public Library harpsichordist/organist/pianist Anthony Newman.

Zukerman has performed as soloist with many of the world’s finest orchestras. Her numerous guest appearances have included engagements with the Tokyo Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic, the China Philharmonic, and the Israel, Moscow, Prague and Scottish Chamber Orchestras. The breadth of her appearances in North America is remarkable – with more than eighty orchestras nationwide, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony in Washington DC, the Montreal and Vancouver  Symphonies and the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico.  Performances and a recording of Lowell Liebermann’s Concerto for Flute and Orchestra Op.39 with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Litton (Delos) led to a rewarding connection between Eugenia Zukerman and the orchestra.

A creative and dynamic administrator, Zukerman spent 13 distinguished years as Artistic Director of the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival in Colorado.  During her tenure, the festival developed an international profile through the annual residencies of the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Dallas Symphony. Yo-Yo Ma, Lang-Lang, Yefim Bromfman and Jean-Yves Thibaudet were among the many internationally renowned artists who appeared during her directorship, further elevating the reputation of the Festival.

Recognized with an Emmy nomination as an important broadcast journalist, Eugenia Zukerman interviewed and created more than 300 portraits as an Arts Correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning.  For more than 25 years she introduced viewers to the most outstanding creators in fine art, music, dance and theater.  It is through her lens that a generation of viewers came to appreciate the arts. Her interview subjects included James Levine, Seiji Ozawa, Leontyne Price, Marilyn Horne, Helen Frankenthaler, Al Hirshfeld, Julie Taymor, Dame Maggie Smith, David Hyde Pierce, Mikhail Barishnikov, Savion Glover, Peter Martins, Daniel Barenboim and Isaac Stern.

An innovator, she embraced the internet early on and founded ClassicalGenie, an internet company that provides video content to music schools, artist, managers, orchestras and other institutions for use on their websites.  The video material helps promote reputation, attendance, interest and fundraising.  Recent clients include the Manhattan School of Music’s Fiftieth Anniversary celebration and The Harlem School of the Arts million dollar fundraising appeal.

She has continued her role as an arts journalist for the past two summers, creating the first VLOG (video blog) for MusicalAmerica.com.  Thousands of internet viewers tuned in to Eugenia Zukerman’s Verbier VLOG as she chronicled the international Verbier Festival in Switzerland from her inside perspective as a performer. She continued her journalist assignment for Musical America, writing a signature article for the 2012 edition of the annual directory  In 2012, again in partnership with MusicalAmerica.com and the Boston Symphony, Zukerman broadened her VLOG work, creating a 40 segment VLOG to celebrate the 75^th anniversary of the Tanglewood Music Festival in Lenox, Massachusetts. A second Verbier VLOG has been commissioned for their 20^th anniversary in 2013.

In addition to her television appearances and on-line presence, Eugenia Zukerman’s discography is impressive.  She has over two dozen discs to her credit, including releases on the Delos, SONY Classical, Pro Arte, Vox Cum Laude and Newport Classic labels.  Her most recent recording, Flesh & Stone: The Songs of Jake Heggie was released on the Americus label with all proceeds benefitting Classical Action; Performing Arts Against AIDS.

The author of the New York Public Library’s Award-winning non-fiction book In My Mother’s Closet, and also Coping with Prednisone (which she co-authored with her sister Dr. Julie R. Ingelfinger), Zukerman has enjoyed success in the humanities as well as the arts. Her first two novels were well received: Deceptive Cadence was published by Viking Press and Taking The Heat was published by Simon and Schuster. Today, Miss Zukerman is a regular contributor to The Washington Post book review and is working on another novel.

Not only was Eugenia Zukerman a Young Concert Artists Award-winning flutist, but in addition, she received their Lifetime Honor Award in 2006.  In 2009, she also received Concert Artists Guild’s Virtuoso Award for Dedication to the Arts – one of a handful of artists to be so honored by both organizations. Other honors include an honorary doctorate from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, the Lifetime Achievement Award from The Open University of Israel in NYC, a Woman of Achievement Award from the National Hadassah Organization, and she is a recipient of the Exceptional Achievement Award from The Women’s Project.

Miss Zukerman studied English at Barnard College and received a B.M. from The Juilliard School where she studied with the renowned flutist Julius Baker.  A Massachusetts native, Miss Zukerman makes her home in New York City and in upstate New York where she shares a small farm with her husband, broadcaster Richard Novik, two horses, two dogs and a barn cat named Lulu.

Renowned for her pure, luminous, rich soprano, persuasive performances and dramatic ability, Arianna Zukerman is considered one of the premiere vocal artists of her generation. An international artist in demand for concert and opera performances, Ms. Zukerman is also an avid chamber musician, and regularly collaborates with some of today’s foremost chamber players. The Washington Post has acclaimed, “Arianna Zukerman possesses a remarkable voice that combines the range, warmth and facility of a Rossini mezzo with shimmering, round high notes and exquisite pianissimos that would make any soprano jealous.”

With a focus on concert repertoire, Ms. Zukerman’s upcoming 2013—2014 engagements take her to the United Kingdom, where she makes her Royal Festival Hall debut in a three-city tour of the UK with the Royal Philharmonic at Reading’s The Hexagon, London’s Royal Festival Hall, and at the Cathedral in Salisbury, her father, Pinchas Zukerman conducting. Summer 2013 begins with a concert performance of Whitbourn’s Annelies: The Choral Setting of the Diary of Anne Frank with the Lincoln Trio, clarinetist Bharat Chandra, The Chicago Children’s Choir, Josephine Lee conducting, at Chicago’s Harris Theatre (presented under the auspices of the US Holocaust Museum’s 20th anniversary year) in early June. Ms. Zukerman also appears at the New Hampshire Music Festival and at Chicago’s International Beethoven Festival in recital with the Festival’s Founder/Artistic Director, George LePauw. With the Gonzaga Symphony in Spokane, Washington, she sings Strauss’s Four Last Songs and Verdi’s E Strano…sempre libera from La Traviata in early October, then travels cross-country to South Carolina for another performance of Annelies with the Carolina Master Chorale. With the National Philharmonic she sings Verdi’s Requiem, and with the American Bach Soloists, Handel’s Messiah at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco and at the Mondavi Center in Davis, California. Also with the American Bach Soloists, Ms. Zukerman appears at San Francisco’s St. Stephen’s Church in a concert entitled “ABS Christmas”, along with renowned baroque trumpeter John Thiessen, that includes Bach’s “Jauchzet Gott” (Cantata, BWV 51). May 2014 brings a re-engagement with Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra.

Highlights of the 2012-2013 season included a three-city, 15-concert engagement with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra; a performance of Jake Heggie’s At the Statue of Venus for Urban Arias at the Strathmore Center for the Arts’s Strathmore Mansion; a concert with the Music of the Baroque under Jane Glover in Chicago singing Mozart’s “Exsultate Jubilate” and “Ch’io mi scordi di te”, with Vladimir Feltsman at the piano; a return to the Colorado Symphony as soloist in Fauré’s Requiem under conductor Jose Luis Gomez; as soloist in the Mutual Inspirations Festival at the National Gallery in DC, and with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in Handel’s Messiah under Jane Glover. January 2013 saw the critically acclaimed release of a new Naxos recording of James Whitbourn’s oratorio, Annelies, the first major choral setting of Anne Frank’s diary (Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl), in which Ms. Zukerman is the featured soloist. The Guardian (UK) praised her performance on the CD¸ stating, “Arianna Zukerman sings with subdued beauty.”

Ms. Zukerman has sung the world premieres of Nizza in Donizetti’s Elisabeth, conducted by Will Crutchfield at the Caramoor Music Festival, and of Wilma in Jean-Michel Damase’s Ochelata’s Wedding at the OK Mozart Festival. She premiered Julian Wachner’s piece, “Come My Dark Eyed One” in Boston in 2009, and at the Kennedy Center in 2011. She also sang the chamber version premiere of James Whitbourn’s oratorio, “Annelies”, in The Hague, Netherlands in 2009.

Ms. Zukerman’s extensive career includes performances with an impressive group of conductors including James Levine, Charles Dutoit, Leonard Slatkin, Lorin Maazel, Ivor Bolton, Constantine Orbelian, Julian Wachner, Jeffrey Thomas, Jane Glover, Lawrence Foster, Rossen Milanov, Marin Alsop, Pinchas Zukerman, Jose Luis Gomez, and Andrew Litton. She has worked with major orchestras worldwide, including the orchestras of Boston, Chicago, Minnesota, Dallas, Colorado, Cincinnati, and Pittsburgh, and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic and National Arts Centre Orchestra in North America, and with the English String Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic (UK), the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Gulbenkian Foundation Orchestra and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra abroad, to name a few. Among the opera companies with which she has performed are such esteemed organizations as New York City Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, Arizona Opera, The Chattanooga Opera, the Berkshire Opera Company, and the Castleton Festival. An avid chamber musician, she counts among her collaborators such esteemed artists as violinist Daniel Hope; pianists Benjamin Hochman, Ken Noda, Navah Perlman, Joy Schreier, and Brian Zeger; clarinetists Bharat Chandra, Alex Fiterstein , Patrick Messina, and Anthony McGill; flutist Eugenia Zukerman; the Miami String Quartet, and The Lincoln Trio.

Arianna Zukerman was born in New York City into a musical family. Her father is violinist/violist/conductor Pinchas Zukerman, her mother is flutist, writer and arts broadcaster, Eugenia Zukerman, and her sister Natalia Zukerman is an accomplished singer/songwriter. In addition to her busy performing schedule she maintains an active studio at the Catholic University of America, where she is an Adjunct Professor of Voice, and she gives master classes around the United States.

A past recipient of the Sullivan Foundation Award, Ms. Zukerman was a member of the Bavarian State Opera’s Junges Ensemble. She studied theatre at Brown University and received her Bachelor of Music from the Juilliard School. She resides with her family in Greater Washington, DC.