FREDERICK ZLOTKIN CELLO
Frederick Zlotkin, winner of the International Music Competition at Geneva, is recognized as one of today’s outstanding musical artists. Among the highlights of his wide musical career are solo engagements with l’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Minnesota Orchestra, the New York City Ballet, National Symphony Orchestra and the St. Louis Symphony, chamber music appearances as member of the Lyric Piano Quartet, guest artist with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Aspen Music Festival, Chicago’s Ravinia Festival and the Minnesota Sommerfest, and his post, for over 30 years, as Solo Cellist for the New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center. In the metropolitan area he has also served as Principal Cellist for numerous orchestras and performs regularly with the New York Philharmonic.
Zlotkin has recorded for hundreds of motion pictures and with numerous contemporary artists such as Frank Sinatra, Madonna, Aretha Franklin, Neil Young, and many others. Zlotkin, who earned his doctor’s degree from The Juilliard School, studied with Gregor Piatigorsky, Leonard Rose, and Channing Robbins.
A member on the faculties of Manhattan School of Music, Queens College, Hoff-Barthelson Music School and the Brooklyn College of Music, he has also served as Adjunct Professor at SUNY-Purchase and as Music Director of the Montauk Chamber Music Society. At the New York City Ballet, Dr. Zlotkin has performed the Walton Concerto (Peter Martins, choreographer), Tschaikowsky’s Roccoco Variations (Christopher Wheeldon, choreographer) and the Shostakovich Cello Sonata (Melissa Barak, choreographer) in addition to numerous other solo and chamber music works.
