Zelman Bokser (1951-2018) was a Taiwanese-American musician, composer, and educator. A musician by training and inclination (he had a doctorate from the Eastman School), he was a violist, a composer and a conductor. He taught and conducted at the college level for years and then spent several years in Taiwan. He returned as a practicing Shinnyo En Buddhist, active in his temple life, and spent the last 20 years teaching in the NYC school system. He brought violin programs to elementary schools in Bushwick and Sunset Park in Brooklyn and most recently was a music teacher and conductor at the Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn.
Discipline:
Music Composition
Zelman Bokser
Discipline:
Music Composition
Region: Irvine, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1987
Studios
New Jersey
Zelman Bokser worked in the New Jersey studio.
The yellow clapboard New Jersey Studio, located on a grassy, sloping site, was funded by the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs and built as an exact replica of Monday Music Studio (1913). The studio’s porch rests on fieldstone piers that increase in height as the ground slopes to the west. Like Monday Music Studio, New Jersey…