Hailed by the press as “one of the finest flutists of our time,” Eugenia Zukerman is an internationally renowned recitalist and soloist. Honored by Young Concert Artists and by The Open University of Israel for her lifetime achievement in music, Ms. Zukerman continues in the 2009-10 season with a diversified schedule as a flutist, writer, artistic director, television/web journalist and educator. Artistic Director of the Vail Valley Music Festival since 1998, she has contributed significantly to its growth and development on national as well as international levels. ... read full bio

Hailed by the press as “one of the finest flutists of our time,” Eugenia Zukerman is an internationally renowned recitalist and soloist. Honored by Young Concert Artists and by The Open University of Israel for her lifetime achievement in music, Ms. Zukerman continues in the 2009-10 season with a diversified schedule as a flutist, writer, artistic director, television/web journalist and educator. Artistic Director of the Vail Valley Music Festival since 1998, she has contributed significantly to its growth and development on national as well as international levels.

The 2009-10 season brings flutist Eugenia Zukerman across the United States, from New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, to South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia and North Dakota. An innovative programmer and collaborator, she reunites with pianist Milana Strezeva for eight recitals throughout the country. Additional collaborations include concerts with the Shanghai String Quartet, actor Claire Bloom, organist James S. Little, and soprano Svetlana Strezeva, among others. On December 20, 2009, Ms. Zukerman joins the Symphony Space All-Stars, performing the complete Brandenburg Concertos of J.S. Bach at New York’s Symphony Space. During the summer of 2010, Ms. Zukerman performs Mozart’s Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Orchestra with Jaap van Zweden conducting the Dallas Symphony Orchestra at Vail Valley Music Festival.
    
Ms. Zukerman has recorded for Delos, CBS Masterworks, Pro Arte, Vox Cum Laude and Newport Classics. Recent recordings for Delos include: China Song with the Shanghai Quartet; the live recording of American composer Lowell Liebermann’s Concerto for Flute and Orchestra with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Aria, a collection of opera favorites; and her solo flute recording, Incantation. Ms. Zukerman is also featured in Classical Action: Performing Arts Against Aids’s benefit recording of Jake Heggie’s Flesh & Stone, a compilation of songs, released in Fall 2007 and also featuring mezzo-sopranos Frederica von Stade, Zheng Cao, and Mary Phillips and composer/pianist Jake Heggie, among others.

A versatile and compelling author, Ms. Zukerman has published two novels,  Deceptive Cadence  (Viking) and Taking The Heat (Simon & Schuster); the non-fiction Coping With Prednisone (St. Martin’s Press), coauthored with her sister, Dr. Julie R. Ingelfinger and re-released in Fall 2007, newly updated and revised and published in the fall of 2008 by Souvenir Press in the UK; and the nationally acclaimed anthology,  In  My  Mother’s Closet  (Sorin Books), featuring the thoughts of forty diverse and accomplished women on the subject of mother/daughter relationships, as well as articles in such prominent periodicals as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Esquire and Vogue.  

Ms. Zukerman has been given an honorary doctorate by Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. A member of the faculty of New York University’s Department of Music and Performing Arts, she is also in demand for master classes.  Since 1981, she has been the arts correspondent for more than 300 profiles on CBS SUNDAY MORNING, and has appeared on a variety of other television programs, including PBS's Charlie Rose Show, NBC’s Today and A&E’s Breakfast with the Arts.   

Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ms. Zukerman entered Barnard College as an English major, but soon transferred to The Juilliard School, where she studied with the renowned flutist Julius Baker. Early in her career, she won the Young Concert Artists Competition and made her New York debut, which was received with the same kind of rave reviews she continues to get more than 25 years later.