Recently honored by Young Concert Artists and by The Open University of Israel for her lifetime achievement in music, Ms. Zukerman continues with a whirlwind schedule as a flutist, writer, artistic director, television journalist and educator. Artistic Director of the Vail Valley Music Festival since 1998, she has contributed a great deal to its growth and development on national as well as international levels.
In the 2007-08 season, Eugenia Zukerman collaborates with keyboard artist Anthony Newman, harpist Yolanda Kondonassis, and cellist Yehuda Hanani. Other highlights include performances with the Thibaud Trio and Trio Virtuosi.
Ms. Zukerman has recorded for Delos, CBS Masterworks, Pro Arte, Vox Cum Laude and Newport Classics. Her most recent work can be heard in Classical Action: Performing Arts Against Aids’s benefit recording of Jake Heggie’s Flesh & Stone, a compilation of songs, launching in Fall 2007 and also featuring mezzo-sopranos Frederica von Stade, Zheng Cao, and Mary Phillips and composer/pianist Jake Heggie, among others.
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, received with the same kind of rave reviews she continues to get more than 25 years later.  ... read full bio