To kick-off the concert under the baton of Giuseppe Lanzetta, chief conductor of the Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina in Florence [the orchestra presented] the Violin Concerto in D minor, op. 47 by Jean Sibelius with Itamar Zorman from Israel as a soloist, winner of, among others, the 2011 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and the International Violin Competition in Freiburg.
Although the music of Sibelius steadfastly continues the tradition of late romanticism, one nonetheless finds in him occasional hints of that inner turmoil that was the predominant mentality governing the attitude towards life of many intellectuals of the first half of the 20th century and therefore, also affecting many composer colleagues of Sibelius. This aspect was likewise very well expressed in the interpretation of the violinist Itamar Zorman.
The players regrouped for Mendelssohn’s String Quintet No.?1 in A, Op. 18, a rapturous work written a year after the famous Octet — when the composer was still in his teens — and nearly as miraculous. The Marlboro players, led by Itamar Zorman on violin, turned in a performance so light and graceful it was nearly weightless, with detailed and utterly transparent playing.
How could one note repeated four times show such demonstrative power to render a simple folk tune visceral? When violinist Itamar Zorman performed Josef Achron's Hebrew Melody, I couldn't be certain whether the dolorous strain was appealing to my Jewish ancestry or unearthing something deeper, perchance a primal yearning to return to a home of which I am not yet conscious.
By: Rossiyskaya Gazeta, June 19, 2011
Violinist from Israel Itamar Zorman (graduate of The Juilliard School of music) enchanted the audience with a velvety, tenderly surrounding sound [...] Tchaikovsky's "Valse Scherzo" in his interpretation evoked the memory of Leopold Auer, the performer of many violin works by the Russian composer.
By: classicalsource.com, March 26, 2011
Itamar Zorman, born in Israel in 1985, a Juilliard graduate, and a prize-winner, has a very promising career ahead of him. His skillful handling of the rigors of Alban Berg's Violin Concerto was ample evidence of his considerable talents.[...]Zorman showed off the warm and full-bodied tone of his Guarneri to splendid effect in the more lyrical phrases.
By: Goettinger Tageblatt; Oct 8, 2009
Meister der Emotionen
Das Duo zeigte eine großartige Leistung, die mit brausendem Applaus belohnt wurde. Bei Henryk Wienawskis Themenvariationen op. 15 sowie das Poeme op. 25 von Ernest Chausson als Zugabe präsentierte sich der junge Violinist dann einmal mehr als ein wahrer Virtuose der Emotion.
