Frederick Zlotkin, Cello
“...master of his instrument.”
                             -New York Times

winner of the International Music Competition at Geneva , is clearly recognized as one of today's outstanding musical artists. Among the highlights of his wide musical career are solo engagements with l'Orchesta de la Suisse Romande, the Minnesota Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra and the St. Louis Symphony; chamber music appearances as a member of the Lyric Piano Quartet; guest artist with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Chicago’s Ravinia Festival, Aspen Music Festival and numerous others. Solo cellist for the New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center for over thirty years, he has also been Principal Cellist in the metropolitan area for numerous orchestras and performs regularly as a substitute 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 and many other. Zlotkin is a fourth-generation cellist (his great uncle was cellist-conductor Modest Altschuler) who began his studies at the age of four with his grandfather. His father, violinist and conductor Felix Slatkin, founded the Hollywood String Quartet, of which his mother, Eleanor Aller, was the cellist. His brother, Leonard Slatkin, is Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. Zlotkin studied with Gregor Piatigorsky, Leonard Rose and Channing Robbins and earned his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees at The Juilliard School.