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Fass Speakers Bureau (FSB) |
Eugenia Zukerman, Flutist
Website: www.eugeniazukerman.com
Residence : New York, NY
Biographical information
Eugenia Zukerman is an accomplished flutist, writer, TV journalist, and Artistic Director. She is in demand worldwide as a soloist with orchestras, as a recitalist, a recording artist, and a chamber music player. Acclaimed by the Boston Globe as "one of the finest flutists of our time," Zukerman is renowned worldwide for her elegant sound, lyrical phrasing, extraordinary agility, and graceful stage presence.
Zukerman has published two novels and co-authored a non-fiction book. About her second novel, Taking the Heat, best-selling author Susan Isaacs wrote, "Once again, Eugenia Zukerman has created a world so richly textured that it feels real. Taking the Heat is passionate, moving and very wise - a wonderfully intelligent novel." Zukerman's fourth book, In My Mother's Closet, a thoughtful, witty anthology of essays about accomplished women and their thoughts on the mother/daughter relationship, was published in April 2003 to rave reviews. IN MY MOTHER'S CLOSET was named one of the Books for the Teenage 2004 by the New York Public Library, and won the Publishers Marketing Association's Benjamin Franklin Award for Cover Design.
As a TV journalist, Zukerman has been nominated for an Emmy for her work as the Arts Correspondent on CBS News' Sunday Morning. During her twenty-three years on the program, she has interviewed more than three hundred artists in the fields of music, visual arts, dance, theater, and film. From Yo Yo Ma to Paul McCartney, from dancer Peter Martins to filmmaker Anthony Minghella, Zukerman leads viewers into the hearts of her subjects and shows us what makes them tick.
Since 1998 Zukerman has been the Artistic Director of the Vail Valley Music Festival in Vail, Colorado, and under her guidance the festival has grown artistically. The festival is now a summer destination for thousands of music lovers.
Discussion topics
- In My Mother's Closet: Jewish Mothers and Daughters
Drawing on the things that bind mothers and daughters, Zukerman realized that sleuthing in her mother's closet was both a way of identifying with her, and separating from her, a way of finding out who she was and what she might become. She decided to interview a variety of women of different ages, from different backgrounds and professions. For each of these women, opening the door to her mother's closet seemed to unlatch a floodgate of memories and musings that went far beyond clothing and possessions. The resulting collection of memories taps into myths and rites of passage, and explores the sometimes joyful, sometimes painful intensity of the mother/daughter connection. - Travels With My Flute
Zukerman discusses her Jewish experiences while traveling to perform and traveling with CBS TV:- Her 1973 experiences during the Yom Kippur War, when she heard what was left of the Israel Philharmonic play Beethoven's Eroica Symphony and when she played for soldiers.
- Her travels to perform in Eastern Europe in 1986, when she met Jews in places like Czechoslovakia who were still nervous about anyone knowing they were Jews.
- Her trip to Lyons, France where she found herself on Yom Kippur in front of the very hotel from which Jews were shipped to concentration camps.
- Her trip to perform in Krakow, and the profound effect of visiting Bierkenau and why she set her second novel partly in Krakow.
With Performance: Zukerman will play music for unaccompanied flute, written by Israeli composers, some Klezmer music, French music, etc. - Music and Mothering
Music plays an invaluable role in parenting by bringing children self-discipline and self-awareness. It stimulates emotions, imagination, and an understanding of tolerance. Music gives essential skills to children, including mathematics, visual perspective, language skills, and interactive skills. Not every child will grow up to be a brilliant performer, but there is no child who cannot learn to play an instrument.
This lecture will include personal anecdotes and stories, explanations about how music stimulates Zukerman's own creativity, and performances of several pieces for unaccompanied flute, including a theme and variations that she has written and recorded.
For more information please contact Carol Fass Publicity & Public Relations at 212.691.9707
