Mourning for a viola master, 81
RIPString 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.
Sad! I had the pleasure of working with him and his students while studying in Michigan. It was a real treat. And his wife is a wonderful pianist and pedagogue as well…
By the way, he has been at UMichigan for much longer than 7 years…he has been there since 1985.
https://www.yizhakschotten.com/biography1
He was at the University of Washington for a couple years in the early 1980s, replacing Donald McInnes.