Next Newton Symphony Concert Features Prokifiev Piano Concerto, Sunday May 4, 2003

The Newton Symphony Orchestra brings its 37th season to a rousing close on Sunday evening, May 4th, at 7:30pm, at the Rashi Auditorium, Newton Corner, with a program featuring the world-renowned violinist Peter Zazofsky, an NSO favorite, as guest soloist for Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto. NSO Music Director Jeffrey Rink’s program will open with the Suite No 2 from Respighi’s Ancient Airs and Dances and conclude with the Suite No 2 from Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloé.

Peter Zazofsky, a Newton native, enjoys an international career as soloist, chamber musician and educator. He was raised in Waban and attended the Newton public schools, where he studied piano and composition with Henry Lasker, who was one of the founding directors of the NSO. Mr Zazofsky’s father was assistant concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and his first violin teacher was Joseph Silverstein. He attended Juilliard Pre-College under the late Dorothy Delay and the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, where he studied with Jaime Laredo, Arnold Steinhardt and Ivan Galamian.

Mr Zazofsky has won many prizes and awards, culminating in the Grand Prize of the 1979 Montreal International Competition and the second prize of the 1980 Queen Elisabeth Contest in Brussels. These honors led to appearances with the orchestras of Atlanta, Baltimore, Leipzig, Seoul, Santiago, Minnesota and Vienna. Mr Zazofsky has appear as soloist with many of the great American and European orchestras, including the Boston Symphony, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, and the Philadelphia Orchestra. He has toured Asia as soloist with the San Francisco Symphony and the US with the Danish Radio Orchestra and has given over 40 performances with orchestras in Israel. As a recitalist, he has presented innovative programs in New York’s Carnegie Hall, Sala Cecilia Meireles in Rio di Janeiro, Palais de Beaux Artes in Brussels and Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. He also tours the world’s music centers as first violinist of the Muir String Quartet. Mr Zazofsky holds the position of Associate Professor of Violin and Chamber Music at Boston University. His myriad activities have been chronicled in the press, including a feature in The Strad magazine and articles in two books: Great Masters of the Violin, by Boris Schwartz, and Great Violinists in Performance, by Henry Roth.

Newton Symphony concerts are presented at Rashi Auditorium, 15 Walnut Park, Newton Corner. Tickets are $25 and $20; $15 for students and seniors over 65. Concerts are at 7:30pm, with a preconcert lecture at 6:30pm. For tickets and further information, please call the NSO box office at 617-965-2555 or visit the NSO website at newtonsymphony.org.

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