Limor Toren-Immerman has won numerous regional and national competitions and has appeared
as soloist with orchestras throughout United States, Israel, and Russia. Her concert
career has additionally taken her through Europe, Middle East, Japan, and Canada.
As a soloist, she has performed violin concerti of Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky,
Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, and the American premiere of Leonid Desyatnikov’s Russian Seasons.
She has held principal positions in many Southern California Orchestras and has performed
under the batons of Zubin Mehta, Kurt Mazur, Michael Tilson-Thomas, Yuri Temirkanov,
Kurt Zanderling, and Charles Dutoit, among many others. Presently, she serves as Concertmaster
for the Mozart Classical and Palm Springs Opera in the Park orchestras in Southern
California, and performs as a Guest Concertmaster with the Fresno Philharmonic and
other Southern California orchestras.
As a diverse chamber music player, Ms. Toren-Immerman performs music from Baroque
to the twenty first century and is a member of the Fresno State Piano Trio and Trio
Accento, who’s début CD Extant Blues, was released on Albany Records in December 2019. A recent collaboration with an
acclaimed pianist Hatem Nadim has been commemorated in a new CD: Johannes Brahms – Violin Sonatas, released on Albany Records in March of 2022. Her latest CD Timeless Rhapsody presenting Solo Violin Sonatas by Bach, Bartók, and Ben-Haim is scheduled for release
in December of 2023.
An enthusiastic educator, Dr. Toren-Immerman currently holds a Professor of Music
in Violin and Viola position on the faculty of the California State University Fresno.
Prior to this appointment she served on the faculty of Shepherds University School
of Music in Los Angeles and as a visiting Professor of Music at Luther College in
Decorah, Iowa. She has also been a regularly featured guest of international music
festivals, such as the Colburn School Summer Chamber Music Intensive, the International Music Academy and Competition in Cremona, Italy, Chamber Music Unbound in Mammoth Lakes, California, Fresno Opera and Orchestra Summer Academy in Fresno, CA, Chamber Music Roundup in Fort Worth, Texas, Music in the Mountains Festival and Conservatory in Durango, Colorado, InterHarmony International Music Festival in Arcidosso, Italy, and CSU Summer Music.
Ms. Toren-Immerman began her formal musical education in Russia, at the Moscow Gnessins’
College of Music. She holds Bachelor of Music and Artist Diploma from Jerusalem Rubin
Academy of Music and Dance, Israel, and Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts
from University of Southern California Thornton School of Music. She has held principal
positions in the USC Thornton Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, the Young Musicians
Foundation Debút Orchestra, and the American Youth Symphony, was a concerto competition
winner with the Jerusalem Academy Symphony Orchestra and the Young Musicians Foundation
Debút Orchestra, and was a USC Thornton School of Music Outstanding Graduate both
for her Master and Doctoral degrees.
Throughout her career, Ms. Toren-Immerman has been distinguished and honored: she
was the recipient of the USC Associates Musical Scholars Award, the USC Chamber Orchestra
Ensemble Award, the Baroness Leni Fe Bland Award, the H.I.A.S. Award, and of the America-Israel
Cultural Foundation Scholarship and Jascha Heifetz Endowed Violin Scholarship. She
was also elected to join honorable societies such as Mu Phi Epsilon and Pi Kappa Lambda.
