Yizhak Schotten plays Vaughan Williams, Suite for Viola: III. Christmas Dance - Video
PUBLISHED:  Aug 14, 2014
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Israeli-born violist Yizhak Schotten was discovered and brought to the United States by the renowned violist William Primrose, with whom he studied at Indiana University and the University of Southern California. Other studies were with Lillian Fuchs at the Manhattan School of Music.

A feature article about Schotten in STRAD Magazine called him "one of America's finest viola players... a leading light of the U.S. viola establishment." His solo appearances with orchestras in this country and abroad have included performances with conductors Seiji Ozawa, Thomas Schippers, Sergiu Commissiona, Joseph Swensen, Arthur Fiedler and others. He has concertized in Israel, Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, Holland, Austria, Mexico, England, Canada and throughout the United States. His solo recitals have included Town Hall, Carnegie Hall, and Merkin Hall in New York, Boston's Jordan Hall, the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., the Dame Myra Hess Series in Chicago, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, among others.

Schotten joined the University of Michigan School of Music faculty in l985 after having taught at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music and the University of Washington in Seattle. He was also on the American Federation of Musician's Congress of Strings faculty. As a teacher of prize winning students, he is very active giving master classes to young violists throughout the United States and abroad. He has given recitals and master classes in England at the Tertis International Competition at the Isle of Man, the Menuhin School in Surrey, and the Guildhall School of Music and Royal College of Music in London.
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