Arianna Zukerman, Washington DC

Arianna is the daughter of violinist, violist and conductor, Pinchas Zukerman and flutist and writer, Eugenia Zukerman. Her sister, Natalia is a singer/songwriter and her paternal granfather played clarinet, accordion and violin in Klezmer bands in Poland before World War II and in Israel where he emigrated after the war.

She has been lauded in the international press: by Opera Magazine for “the breadth of dramatic inflection to make for a powerfully effective performance”and the Washington Post which says that “Arianna Zukerman possesses a remarkable voice that combines the range, warmth and facility of a Rossini mezzo with shimmering, round high notes and exquisite pianissimos that would make any soprano jealous.”

Ms. Zukerman has sung with the leading opera companies and orchestras of the world including the Pittsburgh, Boston, and Dallas Symphonies, the National Arts Centre (Ottawa, Canada), Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, Portugal), and Moscow Chamber Orchestras, and the Bavarian State and New York City Operas. She has performed with conductors James Levine, Lorin Maazel and Charles Dutoit as far away as the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow and as close as the Kennedy Center here in DC.

Her concert repertoire includes Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate, Requiem, Mass in C minor, and “Coronation” Mass; Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, and Missa Solemnis, Britten’s War Requiem, Haydn’s The Creation and The Seasons, Handel’s Messiah and Solomon; Verdi’s Requiem; and Vivaldi’s Gloria. Her operatic roles include the Governess in Britten’s Turn of the Screw, and The Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Euridice in Orfeo ed Euridice and Tisiphone/Charito and Aphrodite in Mark Adamo’s Lysistata.

She has an active chamber music relationship with several festivals including the Vail Valley Music Festival, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festical and the Savannah Music Festival. Ms. Zukerman also performs regularly in solo recital, in an ongoing collaboration with the Miami String Quartet.

A past recipient of a Sullivan Foundation Award, Arianna Zukerman was a member of the Bavarian State Opera Junges Ensemble. She studied theatre at Brown University and received her Bachelor of Music from the Juilliard- School. Certain that the arts are a link to higher achievement in all areas of life, Ms. Zukerman maintains an active teaching schedule at Catholic University of America and in master classes around the United States.