Press preview 3-week Winter Festival with Pinchas Zukerman

Legendary violinist and conductor Pinchas Zukerman tours the state with the NJSO this month in the 2017 Winter Festival. Zukerman, the Festival’s Artistic Director, performs at all six NJSO venues statewide in three weeks of concerts showcasing his unique artistry, January 13–26.

NJArts.net features the 2017 Winter Festival in its “big list” of the year’s major New Jersey arts events.

In a Winter Festival preview, The Asbury Park Press writes:

Each year the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra presents its Winter Festival, a mini-season of concerts designed to lift the spirits of concertgoers schlepping through the post-holidays drab of mid-winter.

This year, the group welcomes classical music star Pinchas Zukerman, violinist extraordinaire and conductor, as artistic director for the coming Winter Festival, a suite of three concerts in January featuring violin concertos by J.S. Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven, plus Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 (the “Eroica”), Arnold Schoenberg’s revelatory “Verklarte Nacht,” and an evening of music by Tchaikovsky.

Zukerman is something of a legend in the classical music world, with a nearly half-century career as soloist and conductor.

In a preview of 2017 concerts in the Princeton area, The Times of Trenton writes:

No matter what 2017 may hold, you should make it a New Year's resolution to catch as many concerts as you can ... The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra will bring the middle panel of this year's triptych of Winter Festival Concerts to Princeton's Richardson Auditorium on Jan. 20.  Pinchas Zukerman will be the soloist in Beethoven's Violin Concerto, and Christian Vasquez will conduct works by Samuel Barber and Camille Saint-Saens.  For more information on the festival and the remainder of the NJSO season, including additional Princeton appearances on Mar. 24 & May 12, go to www.njsymphony.org.

» Read a The Times of Trenton interview with Zukerman at www.nj.com

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