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 Euhe has collaborated with many internationally acclaimed artists, such as Rachel Barton, Lynn Harrell, Paul Coletti, Martin Beaver, Steven Tenenbom, Erika Raum, Patrick Gallois, and Guillaume Sutre, to name a few. 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 Topelli 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 June of 2024.
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.
Dr. 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. 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.