Violinist Itamar Zorman Joins Faculty at Jacobs School of Music

Zorman, who joins the strings department as an associate professor, will begin taking students in the 2025/26 academic year

The Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University has announced that violinist Itamar Zorman will join its strings faculty as an Associate Professor of Violin. He will step into the role on August 1, 2025, in time for the new intake of students in the 2025/26 academic year.

Zorman has served as visiting professor at the Eastman School of Music, Indiana University, and the McDuffie Center for Strings. He is presently on faculty at the Bowdoin International Music Festival, the Heifetz Institute, and Keshet Eilon — and has been invited to give master classes at the Royal Academy of Music, San Francisco Conservatory, and Duke University.

As a performer, Zorman first came to prominence as the winner of the 2011 International Tchaikovsky Competition. In 2013, he was the winner of an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award for 2014.

A founding member of the Israeli Chamber Project, Zorman is also the violinist of the Lysander Piano Trio, with whom he won the 2012 Concert Artists Guild Competition, Grand Prize in the 2011 Coleman Chamber Music Competition, 1st prize in the 2011 Arriaga Competition, and a bronze medal in the 2010 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition.

He has appeared as a soloist with orchestras including the Mariinsky Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, New World Symphony, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, KBS Symphony Seoul, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, German Radio Philharmonic, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Kremerata Baltica, RTE National Symphony Orchestra (Dublin), and American Symphony.

Zorman's own teachers include Hagai Shaham, Robert Mann, Sylvia Rosenberg, Christian Tetzlaff, and Mauricio Fuks.

"Known for his intensely soulful performances, Itamar Zorman is one of the most evocative violinists of his generation, and we are thrilled that he will be carrying on the tradition of our storied Strings Department," said Abra Bush, the David Henry Jacobs Bicentennial Dean.