Paul Zukofsky was an American violinist and conductor known for his work in the field of contemporary classical music.
13 Facts About Paul Zukofsky
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Paul Zukofsky made his first orchestral appearance in 1952 with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, and a formal debut recital at Carnegie Hall in 1956.
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Louis Zukofsky published a fictionalized biography of his son as a young violinist, Little, which includes an account of the ten-year-old Paul Zukofsky playing for the poet Ezra Pound, who was then incarcerated in St Elizabeths prison-asylum in Washington, DC.
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Paul Zukofsky gave world premieres of concertos by Roger Sessions, Charles Wuorinen, Morton Feldman, Philip Glass, and the Scottish composer Iain Hamilton, among others.
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Paul Zukofsky appeared as the character of Albert Einstein in Philip Glass's opera Einstein on the Beach in 1976, and performed on a number of other Glass recordings.
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Paul Zukofsky had a significant collaborative relationship with John Cage.
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In 1975 Paul Zukofsky founded Musical Observations, a nonprofit corporation to support neglected but worthwhile projects, including the recording label CP, which continues to make available many recordings for which he performed, conducted and edited.
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From 1976 to 1977, Paul Zukofsky was a resident visitor at the Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, participating in research on timing in musical performance.
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Paul Zukofsky was one of the original Creative Associates at the founding of the Center for Creative and Performing Arts, SUNY Buffalo, in 19674.
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Paul Zukofsky served as artistic director for the Museum of Modern Art Summergarden concert series from 1987 to 1992, and he was program coordinator of the American Composer Series at the Kennedy Center from 1980 until 1990.
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From 1992 to 1996, Paul Zukofsky was director of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute at the University of Southern California.
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Paul Zukofsky did a significant amount of recording in Japan and had long associations, especially with composers Jo Kondo and Yuji Takahashi.
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Paul Zukofsky died of non-Hodgkin lymphoma on June 6,2017, in Hong Kong.