Violinist Carmit Zori came to the United States from her native Israel at the age of fifteen to study with Ivan Galamian, Jaime Laredo and Arnold Steinhardt at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Ms. Zori is the recipient of a Levintritt Foundation Award, a Pro Musicis International Award, and the top prize in the 1984 Walter W. Naumburg International Violin Competition. Carmit Zori has appeared as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic, the Rochester Philharmonic, and the Philadelphia Orchestra, among many others, and has given solo recitals at Lincoln Center, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum in Boston, the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C., the Tel Aviv Museum and the Jerusalem Center for the Performing Arts. She has performed throughout Latin America and Europe, as well as in Israel, Japan, Taiwan and Australia, where she premiered the Violin Concerto by Marc Neikrug.

Ms. Zori has performed frequently with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and has been a guest at chamber music festivals and concert series around the world, including Chamber Music at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, Festival Casals in Puerto Rico, the Bridgehampton Chamber Music festival, the Bard Music Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival, the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society in Madison, Wisconsin, at the Peasmarsh Music Festival in the UK, and the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival. Carmit Zori is a regular participant at the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont, and is a member of the Israeli Chamber Project. Ms. Zori is the founder and artistic director of the Brooklyn Chamber Music Society. She has recorded on the Arabesque, Koch International, and Elektra-Nonesuch labels. Ms. Zori serves on the faculties of Bard College and Rutgers University.