Pinchas Zukerman

Pinchas Zukerman was born in 1948 in Tel Aviv

Zukerman was born in Tel Aviv in 1948 to Yehuda and Miriam Zukerman, Jewish Holocaust survivors from Poland. His father, a violinist and klezmer player, taught him clarinet and then violin. He grew up in Holon.

He studied at the Samuel Rubin Academy of Music. After Isaac Stern and Pablo Casals heard him in 1962, he moved to the United States to study at the Juilliard School under Stern and Ivan Galamian. He made his New York debut in 1963 and shared the Leventritt Prize in 1967.

His first recordings came out in 1969, and he began conducting in 1970 with the English Chamber Orchestra. He led the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra from 1980 to 1987 and Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra from 1998 to 2015. He has been Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra since 2009.

His recordings received 21 Grammy nominations and 2 wins. He teaches at the Manhattan School of Music. In 2021 remarks he made in a Juilliard masterclass were criticized as reinforcing stereotypes, and he apologized.

He married flutist Eugenia Rich in 1968 and had 2 daughters. He was married to actress Tuesday Weld from 1985 and has been married to cellist Amanda Forsyth since 2004.