We develop a new method to prove asymptotic zero distribution for different kinds of orthogonal polynomials. The method directly uses the orthogonality relations. We illustrate the procedure in four cases: classical orthogonality, non-Hermitian orthogonality, orthogonality in rational approximation of Markov functions and its non- Hermitian variant.

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 30B40, 30B10, 30C15, 31A15.We are concerned with overconvergent power series. The main idea is to relate the distribution of the zeros of subsequences of partial sums and the phenomenon of overconvergence. Sufficient conditions for a power series to be overconvergent in terms of the distribution of the zeros of a subsequence are provided, and results of Jentzsch-Szegö type about the asymptotic distribution of the zeros of overconvergent subsequences are stated....