String players are mourning the sudden passing of Professor Yizhak Schotten, a former player in the Boston Symphony who went on to become principal viola of the Cincinnati and Houston symphony orchestras. Six years ago he was appointed professor at the University of Michigan.
Born in Haifa in 1943, Schotten was brought to the US by William Primrose as his student at Indiana. He was a natural teacher, building on Primrose’s authority with an ease of his own.
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