Prof. Zeev Dorman, chairperson of the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University, conducted a concert by the TNUA Orchestra in Taipei early in April.

The concert, which took place on April 2, was a warm-up to the TNUA Orchestra's upcoming visit to the Israel.

After signing a memorandum of understanding for cooperation and exchange between TNUA and his school, Prof. Dorman started a five-day intensive rehearsal with the TNUA Orchestra leading to the Taipei concert, which featured Igor Stravinsky's "Pulcinella Suite," Emmanuel Sejourne's "concerto for Marimba & Strings," and Robert Schumann's "Symphony No.2 in C Major, Op. 61."

Prof. Dorman noted that it was his first-ever visit to TNUA, and was happy to have the opportunity to conduct the concert, which marked the first step of cooperation between the two universities. He said he hopes cooperation between the two sides can extend beyond music to other areas, such as film, theatre and fine art.

Apart from heading the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, Prof. Dorman is a renowned conductor, instrumentalist, educator and administrator. In 1987 he won the Francois Shapira Prize in conducting.

He joined the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in 1969, and was appointed principal bassoonist and assistant conductor to Zubin Mehta in 1985. Throughout the years, he was prominently involved in the orchestra's artistic administration, serving from 1992 as a member of the executive committee, and from 2000-2009 as its chairman.