Birthday Bow: Zvi Zeitlin Presents Farewell Recital
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FAREWELL FINALE: Zeitlin and Eastman pianist Barry Snyder presented a program of Schubert during a performance marking the violinist’s final recital as a full-time faculty member (photo by Kate Melton for Rochester Review).
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STRING STUDENTS: A student quartet—John Irrera (violin), Samantha Moraes (violin), Kelsey Farr (viola), and Austin Fisher (cello)—accompanied Zeitlin during the Kilbourn Hall concert (photo by Kate Melton for Rochester Review).
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FACULTY ARTIST: Zeitlin joined Eastman’s faculty in 1967, earning several teaching accolades during his tenure (photo: Eastman School).
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TEACHER: “I consider him to be responsible, in great part, for who I am today as a musician and human being”—Jeff Thayer ’98E, Zeitlin’s former student and San Diego Symphony concertmaster (photo by Adam Fenster/University Communications).
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DEAR ZVI: “Congratulations on all the years of great music making and giving back to your students. Teaching is a mitzvah and you are fulfilling it and will continue to do so I am sure. Mazel Tov”—violinist Itzhak Perlman in a note to Zeitlin (photo by Adam Fenster/University Communications).
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PLACE ON THE PROMENADE: Eastman Dean Doug Lowry (center) and Associate Dean Jamal Rossi (left) noted Zeitlin’s contributions to Eastman as they introduced the violinist’s portrait that will hang on Cominsky Promenade (photo by Kate Melton for Rochester Review).
FAREWELL FINALE: On the eve of his 90th birthday, noted violinist and strings teacher Zvi Zeitlin presented his final recital as a full-time member of the Eastman faculty. Billing the performance as his “Farewell Faculty Recital,” Zeitlin—with Eastman pianist Barry Snyder and a student quartet—presented a February program of Schubert in Kilbourn Hall. A musical prodigy who was an 11-year-old scholarship student at the Juilliard School, Zeitlin joined Eastman’s faculty in 1967, earning accolades as a performer and teacher. During his eight decades as a concert violinist, he performed with most of the great orchestras of the world under such conductors as Leonard Bernstein, Zubin Mehta, Christoph von Dohnanyi, James Levine, and Pierre Boulez.
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