Eugenia Zukerman Biography
Eugenia Rich Zukerman is an American flutist, writer, and journalist. An globally acclaimed flute virtuoso. Zukerman became the classical music correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning in 1980, a position she still holds today. She has also written stories for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Esquire, and Vogue.
Eugenia Zukerman Age
She was born Eugenia Rich Zukerman on 25 September 1944, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America. Rich is 79 years old as of September 2023.
Eugenia Zukerman Education- Family
Eugenia Rich began her studies at Barnard College as an English major before transferring to the Juilliard School in 1964 to study music with Julius Baker. She graduated in 1966.
Rich is the sister of Julie R. Ingelfinger, associate editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and consulting pediatric nephrologist at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Eugenia Zukerman Husband- Children
She is married to violinist Pinchas Zukerman. The couple had two daughters together, opera singer Arianna Zukerman and blues/folk musician Natalia Zukerman.
Eugenia Zukerman Career
Zukerman sang at Italy’s Festival dei Due Mondi in 1969 and won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1970. After winning the competition, she gave her first recital at New York City’s Town Hall in 1971. Music critics praised the recital, and she was quickly booked to perform in concerts and recitals all over the world, including appearances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Minnesota Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Israel Chamber Orchestra, and the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, D.C., to name a few. Since 1998, she has been the Artistic Director of the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival, which now features three resident orchestras: the Rochester Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic.
Zukerman became the classical music correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning in 1980, a position she still holds today. She has also written stories for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Esquire, and Vogue. She has also authored two novels, Deceptive Cadence (Viking, 1981) and Taking the Heat (Simon and Schuster, 1991). She is also the editor and contributor to In My Mother’s Closet (Sorin Books, 2003), an anthology of articles in which successful women share their perspectives on the mother-daughter connection. The anthology also features contributions from Renée Fleming, Carrie Fisher, Joy Behar, Judy Collins, Erica Jong, and Claire Bloom. Zukerman also co-authored a nonfiction book, Coping with Prednisone.
Eugenia Zukerman Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.
