Swannanoa Concert July 10 features joint winner of 2011 International Tchaikovsky Competition

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The 2016 Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival season continues this Sunday with Itamar Zorman, recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust award and joint winner of the 2011 International Tchaikovsky Competition. The Waynesville series is sponsored by Haywood County Arts Council. All performances are at the HART Theatre at 7:30 pm.

This Sunday, the Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival welcomes Itamar Zorman, the recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust award and joint winner of the 2011 International Tchaikovsky Competition. This season, Zorman has appeared as a soloist with Orchestras including the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony and Novosibirsk Philharmonic. In November 2014, he gave his Carnegie Hall recital debut, as part of the ‘Distinctive Debuts’ series in Weill Recital Hall.

A graduate of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and The Juilliard School, Zorman currently plays on a Guarneri Del Jesu from 1734, from the collection of Yehuda Zisapel. Do not miss this Sunday’s beautiful performance.

Information about the series as a whole may be found at scm-festival.com or haywoodarts.org. We also invite students under 25 to attend free of charge. To purchase tickets, visit the Haywood County Arts Council Gallery & Gifts or the HART box office.

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