An Israeli
violinist, born in
Tel Aviv on 16 July 1948; he studied at the
Juilliard school, where he shared a prize with
Kyung-Wha Chung, and made his New York and London débuts in 1969. Noted for the purity and brilliance of his tone, he often performs in partnership with
Itzhak Perlman and
Daniel Barenboim. He also does some conducting and plays the
viola too. Zukerman was music director of the
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, in Minnesota, in the 1980s.
The ch in Pinchas is the Hebrew sound as in chutzpah.