Talk:Paul Zukofsky

New York City
Does he still live in New York City? Badagnani (talk) 22:23, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Hong Kong?
Why is Paul now in HK for teaching? 219.78.210.248 (talk) 12:14, 30 October 2009 (UTC) 219.78.210.248 (talk)

Death of Paul Zukofsky

 * Announcement of his death was put forth on June 12, 2017 here:


 * https://slippedisc.com/2017/06/death-of-an-important-american-violinist-73/


 * His death seems to have occurred last week. So far the above URL is the only reliable source I can find. His death has been discussed on social media (i.e., Twitter, Facebook, etc.) But that's not a reliable source for Wikipedia. Christian Roess (talk) 22:23, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

More information
Paul died on 6 June 2017. I have an obit sent out from a friend of his in Hong Kong as below:

Paul Zukofsky, violinist, 73 The American violinist and conductor Paul Zukofsky died on Tuesday evening, June 6, 2017 at the Sanatorium Hospital in Hong Kong. His death was confirmed by surviving board members of his foundation, Musical Observations Inc. The cause of death was non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Mr. Zukofsky was known for his high standards of musical integrity and for his work in promoting contemporary classical music. As violinist and conductor, he premiered music by Milton Babbitt, John Cage, Elliott Carter, Philip Glass, Morton Feldman, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Jo Kondo, Roger Sessions, Artur Schnabel, Yuji Takahashi, Charles Wuorinen, and many others. He made more than 60 recordings, both as violinist and as conductor, for Sony, Camerata, CRI, and for his own label CP2. He also held numerous professional and academic posts and published many articles on music. Born in Brooklyn, NY, October 22, 1943 to “Objectivist” poet Louis Zukofsky and composer and musician Celia Thaew Zukofsky, Paul grew up in the New York City area and studied violin with Ivan Galamian at the Juilliard School of Music, where he earned a Diploma in 1960, followed by a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Music. In 1954, aged 11, Paul was taken by his parents to visit Ezra Pound who was confined at St Elizabeths prison hospital, and at the poet’s request Paul played Bach solo pieces and Jannequin’s “Chant des oiseaux” on the asylum lawn. In 1965 Paul won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions and also won prizes at the International Paganini, Thibaud, and Enesco Competitions. Nominated three times for a Grammy Award, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, an Albert Spalding Prize, a Jascha Heifetz Fellowship, as well grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation and others. In 1975 he founded his recording label, CP2 and Musical Observations Inc, a body to promote his research into issues of music notation. Among the numerous schools and institutes where he taught were the New England Conservatory, Juilliard School, Swarthmore, Princeton, and the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood. Also for ten years beginning 1976, he was a resident visitor at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, and from1980, he spent a decade as program coordinator of the “American Portraits” concert series at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC. From 1987 to 1996 he was Artistic Director of the New York Museum of Modern Art Summergarden concert series. From 1992 to 1996, he was director of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, where he also held the post of professor of violin, chamber music, and conducting. He had close ties to Iceland over many years where he founded the Youth Orchestra of Iceland in 1985 and the Zukofsky Youth Orchestra. For this work he received the Knight’s Cross, Icelandic Order of the Falcon in 1990. In 2009 he moved to Hong Kong to focus on research and writing, much of which concerned the minuets of Josef Haydn. A number of his articles will be published posthumously on the Musical Observations website. It was Mr Zukofsky’s wish that memorials and expressions of sympathy take the form of donations to his foundation which can be made via the Musical Observations website. Contributions will be used to preserve his legacy of recordings, writings and scores.