Violinist Itamar Zorman is known for his soulful, emotionally gripping performances and his gift for musical storytelling. He won first prize at the 2011 International Tchaikovsky Competition and has since received the 2013 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the 2014 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award.
Mr. Zorman has appeared as a soloist with orchestras including the Mariinsky Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, New World Symphony, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, KBS Symphony Seoul, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Kremerata Baltica and the American Symphony, working with conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Michael Tilson Thomas, Valery Gergiev, David Robertson and Yuri Bashmet. In 2024 he performed with the RAI National Symphony Orchestra in its traditional televised Christmas concert.
He has performed in halls including Carnegie Hall, Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Zurich Tonhalle, Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow and London’s Wigmore Hall, and has been invited to the Verbier, Marlboro, Rheingau, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Radio France festivals. He has collaborated with artists such as Richard Goode, Mitsuko Uchida, Steven Isserlis and Jörg Widmann.
A committed chamber musician, Mr. Zorman is a founding member of the Israeli Chamber Project and a member of the Lysander Piano Trio, with which he won the 2012 Concert Artists Guild Competition, the Grand Prize of the 2011 Coleman Chamber Music Competition and first prize at the 2011 Arriaga Competition.
His recordings include “Violin Odyssey” (First Hand Records, 2022), a collection of works for violin from five continents; “Evocation” (BIS Records, 2019), featuring Paul Ben-Haim’s works for violin and orchestra with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales; and his debut solo album “Portrait” (Profil).
Born in Tel Aviv in 1985, Mr. Zorman earned his Bachelor of Music at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance with Hagai Shaham, and his Master of Music (2009) and Artist Diploma (2012) at The Juilliard School with Robert Mann and Sylvia Rosenberg. He also holds an Artist Diploma from the Manhattan School of Music and is an alumnus of the Kronberg Academy, where he studied with Christian Tetzlaff and Mauricio Fuks.
Mr. Zorman is an Associate Professor of Music (Violin) at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. He performs on a 1734 Guarneri del Gesù from the collection of Yehuda Zisapel.
