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“Arianna Zukerman possesses a remarkable voice that combines the range,
warmth and facility of a Rossini mezzo with shimmering, round high notes and
exquisite pianissimos that would make any soprano jealous.”
- Washington Post
A rianna is the daughter of
violinist, violist and conductor,
Pinchas Zukerman and flutist and
writer, Eugenia Zukerman. Her
sister, Natalia is a singer/song-
writer and her paternal granfather
played clarinet, accordion and
violin in Klezmer bands in Poland
before World War II and in Israel
where he emigrated after the war.
She has been lauded in the in-
ternational press: by Opera Maga-
zine for “the breadth of dramatic
inflection to make for a powerfully
effective performance”and the
Washington Post which says that
“Arianna Zukerman possesses a
remarkable voice that combines
the range, warmth and facility of a
Rossini mezzo with shimmering,
round high notes and exquisite
pianissimos that would make any
soprano jealous.”
Ms. Zukerman has sung with
the leading opera companies and
orchestras of the world includ-
ing the Pittsburgh, Boston, and
Dallas Symphonies, the National
Arts Centre (Ottawa, Canada),
Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon,
Portugal), and Moscow Chamber
Orchestras, and the Bavarian
State and New York City Operas.
She has performed with conduc-
tors James Levine, Lorin Maazel
and Charles Dutoit as far away as
the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in
Moscow and as close as the
Kennedy Center here in DC.
photography by Peter Bussian
Her concert repertoire includes
Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate, Lucretia, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Euridice in Orfeo A past recipient of a Sullivan Foundation Award, Arianna
Requiem, Mass in C minor, and ed Euridice and Tisiphone/Charito and Aphrodite in Mark Zukerman was a member of the Bavarian State Opera
“Coronation” Mass; Beethoven’s Adamo’s Lysistata Junges Ensemble. She studied theatre at Brown University
Symphony No. 9, and Missa and received her Bachelor of Music from the Juilliard-
Solemnis, Britten’s War Requiem, She has an active chamber music relationship with School. Certain that the arts are a link to higher achieve-
Haydn’s The Creation and The several festivals including the Vail Valley Music Festival, the ment in all areas of life, Ms. Zukerman maintains an active
Seasons, Handel’s Messiah and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festical and the Savannah Music teaching schedule at Catholic University of America and in
Solomon; Verdi’s Requiem; and Festival. Ms. Zukerman also performs regularly in solo master classes around the United States.
Vivaldi’s Gloria. Her operatic roles recital, in an ongoing collaboration with the Miami String
include the Governess in Brit- www.AriannaZukerman.com
Quartet.
ten’s Turn of the Screw, and The
Female Chorus in The Rape of
Arianna Zukerman as Aphrodite, in Mark Adamo’s “Lysistrata” (New York City Opera - Photograph © Carol Rosegg)
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