Itamar Zorman (violin)

Distinguished by his emotionally gripping performances and gift for musical storytelling, Itamar Zorman is regarded as a singularly soulful and evocative artist. The recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust award, Itamar Zorman was also a laureate of the 2011 International Tchaikovsky Competition. He has given recitals at Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Louvre Recital Series in Paris, the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Muziekgebouw Frits Philips in Eindhoven, the HR-Sendesaal Frankfurt and the Kolarac Hall in Belgrade, and at festivals including the Kronberg Academy, Rheingau, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Delft and the Copenhagen Summer Festival, as well as Marlboro, Classical Tahoe and Chamberfest Cleveland in the US.

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Itamar Zorman’ solo career encompasses four continents. He has appeared with orchestras in the USA, Europe, Asia and South America, including the American Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Belgrade Philharmonic, Kremerata Baltica, Het Gelders Orkest, Israel Philharmonic, the Tokyo Symphony, the KBS Symphony Seoul, as well as the St. Petersburg Philharmonic and the Russian State Symphony Orchestra “Novaya Rossiya. A committed chamber player, he has led the Mahler Chamber Orchestra play-directed Camerata Nordica and is a founding member of the Israeli Chamber Project. He is also a member of the Lysander Piano Trio, with which he won the 2012 Concert Artists Guild Competition.

Itamar Zorman’s diverse repertoire is reflected in his discography; June 2022 saw the release of his third CD ‘Violin Odyssey’ on the First Hand Records label, featuring seldom heard works by composers such as Schulhoff, Bacewicz, Revueltas and Pejacevic, while his previous CD, ‘Evocation’ (BIS Records, 2019) featured the violin works of Paul Ben-Haim.

Born in Tel-Aviv to a family of musicians, Zorman is a graduate of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, the Juilliard School, where he studied with Robert Mann and Sylvia Rosenberg, and the Manhattan School of Music. He is also an alumnus of the Kronberg Academy where he studied with Christian Tetzlaff.

Itamar Zorman is a recipient of scholarships from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation; he currently plays on a Guarneri Del Jesu from 1734, from the collection of Yehuda Zisapel.

Contact:

Nicolas Papageorgiou (Director)

Aude-Marie Auphan (Director)

Video

Kreisler (arr. Zorman): Viennese Rhapsodic Fantasietta

Camerata Nordica, Feb 2020

Evocation (film)

promotional film for the release of Ben Haim CD, March 2019

Schulhoff: Sonata No.2

with Adam Golka, piano – Wigmore Hall, Oct 2021

Missy Mazzoli: Vespers for Violin

Wigmore Hall, Oct 2021

Bacewicz: Slavonic Dance

Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano – Baldwin Auditorium (Oct 2022)

Repertoire

Solo Works with Orchestra

Achron

Hebrew Melody for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 33

Beethoven

Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 61

Berg

Chamber Concerto for piano, violin, and 13 wind instruments
Concerto for Violin

Bernstein

Serenade (After Plato’s Symposium)

Ben-Haim

Violin Concerto
Three songs without words (composer’s orchestra arrangement)
Yizkor (Evocation) for Violin and Orchestra

Bloch

Concerto for Violin & Orchestra
Baal Shem (Three Pictures of Chassidic Life
Nigun

Brahms

Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 77
Double Concerto in A minor Op. 102

Bruch

Concerto for Violin No 1 in G minor, Op. 26

Chausson

Poème for Violin and Orchestra in E flat major, Op. 25

Dutilleux

Violin Concert, L’arbre des songes

Dvořák

Violin Concerto in A minor, Op.53, B.108
Romance in F minor, Op. 11
Humoresque
Mazurek, Op.49

Hartmann

Concerto funèbre

Kreisler

Viennese Rhapsodic Fantasietta (arr. Zorman)

Lalo

Symphonie espagnole for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 21

Leshnoff

Chamber Concerto for Violin and Orchestra

Ligeti

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra

Mendelssohn

Concerto for Violin in E minor, Op. 64

Mozart

Concerto for Violin No 3 in G major, K 216
Concerto for Violin No 4 in D major, K 218
Concerto for Violin No 5 in A major, K 219 “Turkish”
Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola in E flat major, K 364

Paganini

Concerto for Violin No 1 in D major, Op. 6

Piazzolla

Four Seasons of Buenos Aires

Prokofiev

Concerto for Violin No 1 in D major, Op. 19
Concerto for Violin No 2 in G minor, Op. 63

Ravel

Tzigane for Violin and Orchestra

Respighi

Poema autunnale

Rodrigo

Concerto d’été
Concierto de Estío for Violin and Orchestra

Saint-Saëns

Havanaise for Violin and Orchestra in E major, Op. 83
Introduction and Rondo capriccioso in A minor, Op.28

Sarasate

Concert Fantasy on Bizet’s “Carmen”, Op. 25
Navarra,Op. 33
Danzas españolas (2), Op. 22

Schnittke

Triple Concerto

Schubert

Rondo for Violin and Strings in A major

Sibelius

Concerto for Violin in D minor, Op. 47

Shostakovich

Violin Concerto No1 in A minor, Op. 77(99)

Szymanowski

Violin Concerto No1 in A minor, Op. 77(99)

Tchaikovsky

Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 35

Vivaldi

Concertos (4) for Violin, Op. 8 no 1-4 “Le quattro stagioni”

Wieniawski

Concerto for Violin No 2 in D minor, Op. 22
Polonaise brillante no 1 in D major, Op. 4
Variations for Violin on an original theme, Op. 15

Wiesenberg

Suite Concertante (Encounters IV) for Classical Violin, Klezmer Violin and String Orchestra

Ysaye

Chant d’hiver

Moshe Zorman

Violin Concerto
Hora for Violin and Orchestra

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