Peter Zazofsky

Boston-born violinist Peter Zazofsky has enjoyed a career as a soloist, chamber musician and educator that spans twenty years and thirty countries. He has performed with many of the great orchestras in the U.S. and in Europe, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, and the Philadelphia Orchestra. As a recitalist, Mr. Zazofsky has given innovative programs in Carnegie Hall, Sala Cecilia Meireles in Rio De Janeiro, Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, and the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. He also tours the world’s music centers as first violinist of the Muir String Quartet. The son of the assistant concertmaster of the Boston Symphony, Mr. Zazofsky’s first teacher was Joseph Silverstein. He also studied with Dorothy Delay, Jaime Laredo, and Ivan Galamian at the Curtis Institute. In 1979 he won the Grand Prize in the Montreal International Contest and in 1980 the Gold Medal at the Queen Elisabeth Competition (Belgium). In 1985 he was honored to receive the Avery Fisher Career Grant. Since then, Peter Zazofsky has made solo appearances with the orchestras of Atlanta, Baltimore, Leipzig, Santiago, Toronto, Minnesota, and Montreal. He has toured Asia as soloist with the San Francisco Symphony, as well as the U.S. with the Danish Radio Orchestra. Mr. Zazofsky is Associate Professor of Violin and Chamber Music at Boston University. He has given premieres of new works written for him by composers in Holland, Belgium, Denmark, and Spain. He can be heard performing a broad repertoire on the Deutsche Grammophon, Polygram, and Ariola labels.