Israeli-born Yizhak Schotten has concertized in Israel, Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, Holland, Austria, Mexico, England, Canada and throughout the United States. His appearances with orchestras in this country and abroad have been with conductors such as Seiji Ozawa, Thomas Schippers, Sergiu Comissiona, Joseph Swensen, and Arthur Fiedler. As a member of the Trio d’Accordo, Mr. Schotten won the Concert Artists Guild International Competition in New York, and has played solo recitals at 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.

Yizhak Schotten often collaborates with renowned musicians, and has appeared in chamber concerts at the Aspen Music Festival, Bargemusic in New York, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., at Symphony Hall in Boston, and the Concertgebouw in Holland. Formerly a member of the Boston Symphony, Mr. Schotten was principal violist of the Cincinnati and Houston Symphony Orchestras. He has appeared at the Banff, Meadowmount, Interlochen, Tanglewood, Chamber Music Northwest, Montecito, and Montreal Festivals.

Mr. Schotten was the Artistic Director of the XIV International Viola Congress and has been a featured artist at six other International Congresses. He has recorded seven discs for Crystal Records, and his C.R.I. recording was chosen as “Critics’ Choice” for three months in HIGH FIDELITY Magazine. Pearl Records included his playing on its anthology, “History of the Recording of the World’s Finest Violists.”

Prof. Schotten is on the faculty of The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and was director of Strings Music Festival in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and SpringFest in Ann Arbor.