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Pinchas Zukerman (born July 16, 1948) is a noted Israeli violinist, violist, and conductor who was appointed Music Director of Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra in April 1998.

Zukerman was born in Tel Aviv. He left for the United States and studied at the Juilliard School. He made his New York debut in 1963. From 1980 to 1987 he was the director of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in Minnesota. He married actress Tuesday Weld in 1985 but they divorced in 1998.

He is close friends with Daniel Barenboim and Itzhak Perlman. He is currently married to the NAC Orchestra's principal cellist, Amanda Forsyth. He lives in the exclusive Rockcliffe Park area of Ottawa. He has two daughters, Arianna and Natalia, from his 15-year marriage to flautist and novelist Eugenia Zukerman. Both girls are vocalists; Arianna is an opera singer, while Natalia Zukerman is a folk-rock musician.

Zukerman has recorded over 100 works and has been nominated for 21 Grammy Awards, winning two.

During the current 2005-2006 season, Zukerman is scheduled for many concerts away from the NACO in Ottawa. He will tour with Itzhak Perlman to Washington, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Miami, and Chicago. He will also conduct or solo with the Indianapolis, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Singapore, and National Symphony Orchestras, as well as the Israel, Seoul, and Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestras, and the Berlin Staatskapelle. He will tour Belgium and Germany with the Belgian National Orchestra, and have another recital tour with pianist Marc Neikrug with concerts in London, Paris, Moscow, Milan, Munich, and Birmingham. On October 20, 2006, Pinchas Zukerman and Amanda Forsyth performed with the Classic FM Orchestra in Sofia, Bulgaria, conducted by Maxim Eshkenazy.

Awards and Recognitions

Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance:

• Itzhak Perlman & Pinchas Zukerman for Music for Two Violins (Moszkowski: Suite For Two Violins/Shostakovich: Duets/Prokofiev: Sonata for Two Violins) (1981)

King Solomon Award

Medal of Arts

• 1983 Presented by President Ronald Reagan

Isaac Stern Award for Artistic Excellence

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