Zina Schiff, violin
Violinist
Zina Schiff's playing has been described by the New York Times as
"Luscious high voltage... vintage Heifetz." A prot�g�e of the legendary
Jascha
Heifetz, Zina has captivated audiences and critics with her passion and
communicative
power, soloing with major orchestras and in recital on four continents.
Of her
eleven CDs, Zina's highly acclaimed debut recordings, Bach/Vivaldi
and The Lark
Ascending, were as soloist with the Israel Philharmonic. Three
recital
discs, King David's Lyre, Here's One,
and Music of Cecil Burleigh were selected Critics Choice
of the Year by
American Record Guide. Her latest orchestral CD, on the Naxos
label, is the music of Ernest Bloch accompanied by the Royal Scottish
National
Orchestra, which was named "Recording of the Month" by MusicWeb
International and given a perfect 10/10 rating by ClassicsToday.com.
Zina
recorded the sound track for the MGM movie, "The Fixer", composed by
Academy-Award-winner
Maurice Jarre. Television viewers worldwide saw her on the PBS Nova
program "What Is Music?" performing the Sibelius Violin Concerto on an
experimental violin designed by Texas A&M Professor Joseph Nagyvary.
Winner of
the junior and senior auditions of the Philadelphia Orchestra while a
student
at The Curtis Institute of Music, Zina received the Young Musicians
Foundation
Debut Award, San Francisco Symphony Foundation Award, and a grant from
the
Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music. Musical America
named her an "Outstanding Young Artist", and Glamour Magazine
selected her one of the "Top Ten College Winners" while at the University of California
at Berkeley.
Zina has
previously performed in the area at the Isabella
Gardner Museum
and at the Newport Festival, and she is delighted with her recent move
to Boston with her husband, Dr. Ronald
Eisenberg, who is a
radiologist at the Beth
Israel Deaconess
Medical Center.
Audiences
on four continents have been spellbound by Zina's "sensational violin
talent" (San Francisco Chronicle) and her "complete mastery of the
violin" (London Daily Telegraph).
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