Paul Zukofsky
Violinist, conductor, and chamber musician Paul Zukofsky was generally associated with the advancement and performance of modern music, having premiered and recorded works by Wuorinen, Glass, Carter, Babbitt, and numerous other 20th century composers. But he also divulged a sympathy for the music of Bach in his well-received recordings of the solo sonatas and partitas.
Zukofsky showed interest in music before the age of three and started taking his first lessons on the violin at four. His skills advanced so rapidly that he began studies with Ivan Galamian when he was just seven. His résumé as a child performer was equally impressive, having given his first public concert at six and his first with an orchestra, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, when he was ten. Three years later, he gave a recital at Carnegie Hall. By the mid-1960s, Zukofsky had become well known in both solo and chamber repertory. In the latter genre, he would team up with Gilbert Kalish for many concert appearances and recordings over the years. He also began conducting orchestras, often chamber-sized ensembles and usually in modern repertory. He served as music director (1978-1987) of the Colonial Symphony Orchestra, a Madison, New Jersey-based ensemble. In this post, he also conducted works by Beethoven, Mozart, and other mainstream composers. Zukofsky also led the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble beginning in the 1970s, becoming its conductor in 1984. Starting in the 1970s, Zukofsky developed a relationship with the Reykjavik College of Music in Iceland, regularly appearing in concerts and conducting seminars there. He also appeared in many concerts as conductor at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in the last two decades of the 20th century, often leading the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble and the Juilliard Orchestra.
Zukofsky became a close friend of composer Philip Glass and assisted in the recording of his opera Einstein on the Beach (1976). The character Einstein does not sing, but plays the violin instead. Zukofsky inspired Glass to write his Violin Concerto (1986-1987) and gave the work's premiere on April 5, 1987, with the American Composers Orchestra under the direction of Dennis Russell Davies. In 1985, Zukofsky founded the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Iceland (Sinfoniuhljomsveit Aeskunnar). From 1992-1996, Zukofsky was director of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute at the University of Southern California. As both a conductor and violinist, he remained active into the new century and made over 60 recordings for a number of labels, including Sony, Camerata, CRI, and one of his own, CP2, of whose parent company, Musical Observations, Inc., he was president. He recorded extensively for this label beginning in the early 1990s, issuing performances of works, often in premiere issues, by Cage, Feldman, Xenakis, Glass, and several other modern composers. Zukofsky died in Hong Kong in June 2017; he was 73 years old.
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18 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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For John Cage
Paul Zukofsky, Marianne Schroeder
Classique - Paru chez CP2 le 1 janv. 1990
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Ruggles: Sun Treader / Schuman: Violin Concerto / Piston: Symphony No. 2
Paul Zukofsky, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas
Classique - Paru chez Deutsche Grammophon (DG) le 1 janv. 1990
Discothèque Idéale Qobuz16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Ragtime/Paganini: 24 Capricees
Classique - Paru chez CP2 le 1 oct. 2005
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Crumb: Black Angels - Jones: String Quartet No. 6 and Sonatina for Violin & Piano
New York String Quartet, Paul Zukofsky, Gilbert Kalish
Classique - Paru chez NWCRI le 16 févr. 2010
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Milton Babbitt/Morton Feldman
Classique - Paru chez CP2 le 1 févr. 2003
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Zygmunt Krauze/Toshi Ichiyanagi/John Cage
Classique - Paru chez CP2 le 1 juil. 2007
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J.S. Bach: Three Sonatas and Three Partitas
Classique - Paru chez CP2 le 1 mars 2005
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John Cage - Sixteen Dances/Armin Loos - Sonata No. 2
Paul Zukofsky, New Music Concerts, Toronto, Michael Torre
Classique - Paru chez CP2 le 1 févr. 2002
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Charles Ives: The Sonatas for Violin and Piano, Vol. 1
Classique - Paru chez Folkways Records le 1 janv. 1964
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Charles Wuorinen: The Winds
Charles Wuorinen, Paul Zukofsky
Classique - Paru chez New World Records le 1 janv. 1996
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Artur Schnabel - Symphony No. 2
Musique symphonique - Paru chez CP2 le 1 sept. 1991
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Artur Schnabel - Symphony Nos. 1 and 3
Paul Zukofsky, The BBC Sympony Orchestra, The Prague Symphony Orchestra
Musique symphonique - Paru chez CP2 le 1 janv. 1996
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Charles Ives: The Sonatas for Violin and Piano, Vol. 2
Classique - Paru chez Folkways Records le 1 janv. 1964
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Artur Schnabel - Dance and Secret
Paul Zukofsky, The Gregg Smith Singers, A New York City Free-lance Orchestra
Classique - Paru chez CP2 le 1 juil. 1996
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Jo Kondo: In Summer
Classique - Paru chez ALM RECORDS le 7 oct. 2007
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Roger Sessions/Peter Mennin/Easley Blackwood
Paul Zukofsky, Easley Blackwood, Gilbert Kalish
Classique - Paru chez CP2 le 1 juin 2002
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