Peter 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. 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.

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, and has collaborated with such prestigious conductors as Klaus Tennstedt, Seiji Ozawa, Eugene Ormandy, Kurt Sanderling and Charles Dutoit. 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.

In recent years, Peter Zazofsky has explored new repertoire, premiering works written for him by composers in Holland, Belgium, Denmark and Spain. As first violinist of the Muir Quartet, he has encouraged the creation of new music by American composers Joan Tower, Ezra Laderman, Richard Danielpour and Lukas Foss.

Peter 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.

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