As Professor of Flute at California State University in Sacramento since 1988, Laurel Zucker received the 1998 President’s Award for Creative and Scholarly Research, two 1998 and 2000 Creative Research Awards, a 1989 Professional Promise Award, and several UEI travel grants. She was also the recipient of the 2013 Creative and Scholarly Research Award for the School of Arts at California State University.
1978 she won Artists International Competition and gave her Carnegie Recital Hall Debut. Her first performances in Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center were at the age of 16 performing first flute in the Alexander Schneider’s Orchestra. Zucker graduated from Juilliard where she studied with Samuel Baron for three years; with Paula Robison for two years at New England Conservatory of Music; and privately with Marcel Moyse and Julius Baker. Ms. Zucker holds a Masters in Music Composition from New York University.
Her compositions are published by Jabiru Publications, Clear Note Publications, Lyra International, Subito Music, and Bourne Music Company, and are recorded on Cantilena Records. Since 2006, Zucker’s travels throughout Central and South American and the Middle East have inspired her to compose an extensive variety of chamber music both jazz and classical.
October 3 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Notes from a Life: An Evening with Allen Shawn