The Zukerman Trio emerged out of the Zukerman Chamber Players with an official launch in 2013. Since then, the ensemble has performed globally in Japan, China, Australia, Spain, Italy, France, Hungary, Canada, South Africa, Istanbul, Russia and Germany. The Trio has appeared at major North American festivals, including Ravinia, Tanglewood, Aspen, Bravo! Vail and Banff and European festivals in Edinburgh, Verbier and Schleswig Holstein. In 2020, pianist Shai Wosner joined Zukerman and cellist Amanda Forsyth, and the three continue to find joy and inspiration performing the classical trio and duo literature.
In the 2024-2025 season, the Zukerman Trio can be seen in Sonoma and Orange County, California; Sedona, Arizona; and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; as well as in New York City with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Earlier in 2024, their European tour included stops in Berlin, Germany; Concabella, Alicante, and Valencia, Spain. Recently, Mr. Zukerman and Mr. Wosner traveled to China for a recital tour, while Mr. Zukerman and Ms. Forsyth made their debut at Wolf Trap with pianist Michael Stephen Brown.
Grant, pianist-composer Michael Stephen Brown has been described as “one of the leading figures in the current renaissance of performer-composers” (New York Times). He regularly appears with orchestras such as the National, Seattle, Phoenix, and Albany symphonies and on recital series around the world. Highlights of the 2023-24 season include a solo recital tour culminating at Alice Tully Hall for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, recitals with longtime duo partner cellist Nicholas Canellakis, concerts with violinist Pinchas Zukerman, and recital tours in Hong Kong and Shenzhen. As a composer, he was recently in residence at the Yaddo artist colony, has received numerous commissions, and toured his Piano Concerto around the US and Poland. Brown was composer- and artist-in-residence at the New Haven Symphony and lives in New York City with his two 19th-century Steinway D pianos, Octavia and Daria.
May 2024
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