In 1967 Evangeline Benedetti was invited by Leonard Bernstein himself to become a member of the New York Philharmonic, the first female cellist and the second tenured woman. She remained an active and integral member for more than 40 years, during which time she played nearly 8,000 concerts and participated in countless recordings and television productions including the renowned Young People's Concerts conducted by Bernstein.
Mrs. Benedetti served for 20 years on the faculty of Manhattan School of Music and is a sought after master clinician and guest artist. She currently lives in New York, where she teaches, continues to perform and serves on the boards of The Bloomingdale School of Music and The ViolinCello Society of New York. In 2016 her book "Cello, Bow and You: Putting It All Together", was published by the Oxford University Press.
In 1967 Evangeline Benedetti was invited by Leonard Bernstein himself to become a member of the New York Philharmonic, the first female cellist and the second tenured woman. She remained an active and integral member for more than 40 years, during which time she played nearly 8,000 concerts and participated in countless recordings and television productions including the renowned Young People's Concerts conducted by Bernstein.
Mrs. Benedetti served for 20 years on the faculty of Manhattan School of Music and is a sought after master clinician and guest artist. She currently lives in New York, where she teaches, continues to perform and serves on the boards of The Bloomingdale School of Music and The ViolinCello Society of New York. In 2016 her book "Cello, Bow and You: Putting It All Together", was published by the Oxford University Press.
In 1967 Evangeline Benedetti was invited by Leonard Bernstein himself to become a member of the New York Philharmonic, the first female cellist and the second tenured woman. She remained an active and integral member for more than 40 years, during which time she played nearly 8,000 concerts and participated in countless recordings and television productions including the renowned Young People's Concerts conducted by Bernstein.
Mrs. Benedetti served for 20 years on the faculty of Manhattan School of Music and is a sought after master clinician and guest artist. She currently lives in New York, where she teaches, continues to perform and serves on the boards of The Bloomingdale School of Music and The ViolinCello Society of New York. In 2016 her book "Cello, Bow and You: Putting It All Together", was published by the Oxford University Press.
In 1967 Evangeline Benedetti was invited by Leonard Bernstein himself to become a member of the New York Philharmonic, the first female cellist and the second tenured woman. She remained an active and integral member for more than 40 years, during which time she played nearly 8,000 concerts and participated in countless recordings and television productions including the renowned Young People's Concerts conducted by Bernstein.
Mrs. Benedetti served for 20 years on the faculty of Manhattan School of Music and is a sought after master clinician and guest artist. She currently lives in New York, where she teaches, continues to perform and serves on the boards of The Bloomingdale School of Music and The ViolinCello Society of New York. In 2016 her book "Cello, Bow and You: Putting It All Together", was published by the Oxford University Press.
In 1967 Evangeline Benedetti was invited by Leonard Bernstein himself to become a member of the New York Philharmonic, the first female cellist and the second tenured woman. She remained an active and integral member for more than 40 years, during which time she played nearly 8,000 concerts and participated in countless recordings and television productions including the renowned Young People's Concerts conducted by Bernstein.
Mrs. Benedetti served for 20 years on the faculty of Manhattan School of Music and is a sought after master clinician and guest artist. She currently lives in New York, where she teaches, continues to perform and serves on the boards of The Bloomingdale School of Music and The ViolinCello Society of New York. In 2016 her book "Cello, Bow and You: Putting It All Together", was published by the Oxford University Press.
Tamir Akta , is a graduate of the Talma Yelin school of arts, a recipient of the America Israel cultural Foundation scholarship 1987-1995, and winner of the 1991 Interlaken Classics Competition, the Selmer Trumpet Competition and the young soloist Trumpet competition. Tamir completed his academic training in the Paris Conservatory. Musical education is close to his heart. He views it as calling and an obligation to train the next generation of musician in Israel. In addition to his performing schedule and composing projects, Tamir teaches trumpet and supervises an elementary school music education project in Raanana. As a composer, Tamir has been writing for seven years and performing his own works in the concert halls of Israel and Europe.
Tamir Akta , is a graduate of the Talma Yelin school of arts, a recipient of the America Israel cultural Foundation scholarship 1987-1995, and winner of the 1991 Interlaken Classics Competition, the Selmer Trumpet Competition and the young soloist Trumpet competition. Tamir completed his academic training in the Paris Conservatory. Musical education is close to his heart. He views it as calling and an obligation to train the next generation of musician in Israel. In addition to his performing schedule and composing projects, Tamir teaches trumpet and supervises an elementary school music education project in Raanana. As a composer, Tamir has been writing for seven years and performing his own works in the concert halls of Israel and Europe.
Sergiu Carstea is an accomplish trumpet player from Moldova who completed his post-graduate studies in Paris' well known Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique. He has played solo and in an orchestras for over 2 decades.Since 1978, Sergiu has been a professor trumpet at a handful of Romanian and Moldovan universities, high schools and conservatories. He also gives master classes in higher education institutions throughout Europe and in Canada.
A First Prize winner of the International Pablo Casals Competition in Budapest (1968), Maria Tchaikovskaya was a student of Mstislav Rostropovich. She is an active performer and as a teacher, she served as the assistant to the late Rostropovich. Currently, she holds a position of professor at the Moscow State Conservatory. She frequently gives Masterclasses worldwide.
Grammy nominated conductor, cellist and conductor Dmitry Yablonksy was born in Moscow into a musical family. At the age of 9 he gave his orchestral debut playing Haydn's cello concerto. He emigrated with his mother, pianist Oxana Yablonskaya to New York where he studied with Lorne Munroe, Aldo Parisot and David Soyer at the Curtis Institute of Music. His Tchaikovsky Piano trio recording for Erato/ Warner with Repin and Berezovsky won numerous awards. Dmitry transcribed and edited works for cello, which was released by International Music Company and Dover Publications. Naxos released his recording of all 40 Popper etudes for solo cello in the fall of 2008, which received great critical acclaim. He organizes many festivals all over the world, including the Gabala Music Festival in Azerbaijan.
A First Prize winner of the International Pablo Casals Competition in Budapest (1968), Maria Tchaikovskaya was a Mstislav Rostropovich student. She is an active performer, and as a teacher, she served as the assistant to the late Rostropovich. Currently, she holds the position of professor at the Moscow State Conservatory. She frequently gives Masterclasses worldwide.
Minor tonality, dramatic environment, and above all, you're alone. This makes this short composition a very important piece to have in your repertoire, also because, in every audition or competition that you'll happen to participate, you'll be requested to play Bach . Zvi Plesser teacher focuses very much on sound control, and deep composition understanding, dedicating the Tutorial A to bow technique.
Rich, pure and inviting chords, perfectly showcasing the natural warmth and resonance of the Cello, perfectly taught and examined under all aspects: the technique of playing, sound, best positions and fingering.
Recognized as one of the leading violinist of his generation Gyorgy Pauk was born in Budapest, Hungary, and received his musical education at the renowned Franz Liszt Academy. He retired from the podium, after over more than 5 decades, playing his farewell concert in Budapest with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Ivan Fischer in 2008.
Gyorgy Pauk is now professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he conducts a "Performers Class" with selected young talents from all over the world. He regularly visits the US where he is giving master classes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oberlin College Ohio and Juilliard School of Music in New York. His guest master classes included visits at Curtis, Peabody, Yale, Cleveland, Oberlin, Manhattan Schools, as well as in China, Japan and Israel and all over Europe. Gyorgy Pauk has received several public honors in Britain and Hungary; also, he is Professor Emeritus of the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest. Gyorgy Pauk has been playing on his Massart Stradivarius of 1714, the Master's Golden Period.
Virginie Robilliard from France is currently teaching at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne in Switzerland. She is regularly invited to give master classes all over the world. Born into a family of musicians, she gave her first public concert at the age of five. She studied at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon and graduated in the Juilliard School as a scholarship student of Dorothy Delay. She made her New York debut at the age of 19. Her international career has included appearances in Asia, South America, Europe, Canada and the United States. Virginie Robilliard plays a Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume 1869.
Uri Vardi has specialized in the Feldenkrais Method , for which he received the 1999 UW-Madison Arts Institute Faculty Development Award. He completed a Feldenkrais Practitioners Training and was certified by the Feldenkrais Guild of North America and by the International Feldenkrais Federation as a Feldenkrais practitioner in 2003. For the last five years, Vardi has created a new course at UW - Madison: "Feldenkrais for Performing Artists". In 2012, Vardi was awarded the UW Art Institute Emily Mead Baldwin Award to create a Program for Somatic Education in the Performing Arts at UW-Madison.
Hagai Shaham teaches at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University and he is Artist in Residence at Stony Brook University, New York. Student of the late renowned Professor Ilona Feher, he is the co-founder and a board member of the Ilona Feher Foundation for promoting young Israeli violinists. Shaham's awards include first prizes at the ARD Munich Competition and the Israel Broadcasting Authority Competition. Shaham highly motivates his students to reach out for the best possible performance and possesses a lot of background knowledge of the repertoire.
Miriam Fried has been recognized for many years as one of the world's preeminent violinists. A consummate musician - equally accomplished as recitalist, concerto soloist or chamber musician - she has been heralded for her "fiery intensity and emotional depth" (Musical America) as well as for her technical mastery. Her supreme blend of artistry and musicianship continues to inspire audiences worldwide.
A noted pedagogue, Miriam Fried is on the faculty of New England Conservatory and is invited to give master classes throughout the world. Miriam Fried plays a particularly noteworthy violin, a 1718 Stradivarius that is said to have been the favorite of its 18th century owner, the composer-conductor Louis Spohr .
Recognized as one of the leading violinist of his generation Gyorgy Pauk was born in Budapest, Hungary, and received his musical education at the renowned Franz Liszt Academy. He retired from the podium, after over more than 5 decades, playing his farewell concert in Budapest with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Ivan Fischer in 2008.
Gyorgy Pauk is now professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he conducts a "Performers Class" with selected young talents from all over the world. He regularly visits the US where he is giving master classes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oberlin College Ohio and Juilliard School of Music in New York. His guest master classes included visits at Curtis, Peabody, Yale, Cleveland, Oberlin, Manhattan Schools, as well as in China, Japan and Israel and all over Europe. Gyorgy Pauk has received several public honors in Britain and Hungary; also, he is Professor Emeritus of the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest. Gyorgy Pauk has been playing on his Massart Stradivarius of 1714, the Master's Golden Period.
This very efficient method for auto training is based on the awareness of our motor schemes and reorganizing of muscle reactions to achieve a full-range connection between mind and body.
Uri Vardi has specialized in the Feldenkrais Method, for which he received the 1999 UW-Madison Arts Institute Faculty Development Award. He completed a Feldenkrais Practitioners Training and was certified by the Feldenkrais Guild of North America and by the International Feldenkrais Federation as a Feldenkrais practitioner in 2003. For the last five years, Vardi has created a new course at UW - Madison: "Feldenkrais for Performing Artists".
The first part of the Beethoven's 32 Variations on a same 8 bars theme, differing in character, technical difficulty, and dynamics. Students can see how they have some freedom about tempos and pedals, but have to follow some rules as well, especially when preparing for a competition. Main goals: 1) Changes in the atmospheres 2) Different Tempo choices 3) Use of pedals (not mentioned in the 1st print) 4) What to practice most.
Master Teacher Ricardo Castro gives you a full explanation with many topics. For example, how to technically keep the atmosphere, as well as how to use the dynamics of the piece. He also gives a parallel vision about Beethoven's harmony in his symphonies; main goals of the lesson: 1) Concept of single note speed 2) Connection between brain and fingers 3) Physical control of the playing atmosphere 4) Refining legato.
One of the most sought after cello pedagogues, Israeli cellist Amit Peled is a Professor at the Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University. From the United States to Europe to the Middle East and Asia, Peled is acclaimed as one of the most exciting instrumentalists on the concert stage today and described as a musician of profound artistry and charismatic stage presence. Peled often surprises audiences with the ways he breaks down barriers between performers and the public, making classical music more accessible to wider audiences.
Tim Smith of the Baltimore Sun reflected on a recent performance: "Peled did a lot of joking in remarks to the audience. His amiable and inviting personality is exactly the type everyone says we'll need more of if classical music is to survive." Peled was chosen among "Musical America's 30 Professionals of the Year 2015 and performs on Pablo Casals's own cello, a 1733 Matteo Gofriller loaned to him by the great cellist's widow, Marta.
One of the most sought after cello pedagogues, Israeli cellist Amit Peled is a Professor at the Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University. From the United States to Europe to the Middle East and Asia, Peled is acclaimed as one of the most exciting instrumentalists on the concert stage today and described as a musician of profound artistry and charismatic stage presence. Peled often surprises audiences with the ways he breaks down barriers between performers and the public, making classical music more accessible to wider audiences. Tim Smith of the Baltimore Sun reflected on a recent performance: "Peled did a lot of joking in remarks to the audience. His amiable and inviting personality is exactly the type everyone says we'll need more of if classical music is to survive." Peled was chosen among "Musical America's 30 Professionals of the Year 2015 and performs on Pablo Casals's own cello, a 1733 Matteo Gofriller loaned to him by the great cellist's widow, Marta.
Gulsin Onay graduated at the Paris Conservatoire, at the age of 16, winning the prestigious "Premier Prix du Piano". She won many prizes in top international competitions, including the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud (in Paris) and the Ferruccio Busoni (in Bolzano).
Gulsin Onay's subsequent, truly international, career has spanned 68 countries across all continents, from Venezuela to Japan. Gulsin Onay has given concerts in the major musical centres of the world. She holds the titles of State Artist in her native Turkey, and of soloist for the Presidential Symphony Orchestra in Ankara. She is "Artist in Residence" at Bilkent University in Ankara and holds an honorary doctorate degrees from Bosphorus University in Istanbul, and from Hacettepe University in Ankara. The Sevda-Cenap And Music Foundation awarded its prestigious 2007 Honorary Award Gold Medal to Gulsin Onay, and she was named "Pianist of the Year" in the 2011 Donizetti Classical Music Awards. In 2014 she was awarded the Honorary Medal of the 42nd Istanbul Music Festival.
In this masterclass, Piano student Doruk Gorkem Tokur go from the peaceful Andante con moto of the second movement to the Allegro of the third movement, with its Perpetuum Mobile very precisely examined by teacher Gulsin Onay . Special topics treated: 1) Peaceful sound performance 2) Piano to Forte attacks 3) Not written accents.
A note per note analysis about how to play Beethoven's important and demanding Piano Sonata , how to connect phrases, how to manage the intensity of the sound and how to improve student's performance.
Sander Sittig continues what he started on the first and second movement, with his very detailed analysis of the score, with special topics dedicated to the Molto espressivo dynamics and distribution of attention for different voices expressing at the same time.
Virginie Robilliard from France is currently teaching at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne in Switzerland. She is regularly invited to give master classes all over the world. Born into a family of musicians, she gave her first public concert at the age of five. She studied at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon and graduated in the Juilliard School as a scholarship student of Dorothy Delay. She made her New York debut at the age of 19. Her international career has included appearances in Asia, South America, Europe, Canada and the United States. Virginie Robilliard plays a Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume 1869.
Virginie Robilliard from France is currently teaching at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne in Switzerland. She is regularly invited to give master classes all over the world. Born into a family of musicians, she gave her first public concert at the age of five. She studied at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon and graduated in the Juilliard School as a scholarship student of Dorothy Delay. She made her New York debut at the age of 19. Her international career has included appearances in Asia, South America, Europe, Canada and the United States. Virginie Robilliard plays a Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume 1869.
Recognized as one of the leading violinist of his generation Gyorgy Pauk was born in Budapest, Hungary, and received his musical education at the renowned Franz Liszt Academy. He retired from the podium, after over more than 5 decades, playing his farewell concert in Budapest with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Ivan Fischer in 2008.
Gyorgy Pauk is now professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he conducts a "Performers Class" with selected young talents from all over the world. He regularly visits the US where he is giving master classes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oberlin College Ohio and Juilliard School of Music in New York. His guest master classes included visits at Curtis, Peabody, Yale, Cleveland, Oberlin, Manhattan Schools, as well as in China, Japan and Israel and all over Europe.
Gyorgy Pauk has received several public honors in Britain and Hungary; also, he is Professor Emeritus of the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest. Gyorgy Pauk has been playing on his Massart Stradivarius of 1714, the Master's Golden Period.
Dutch violinist Rudolf Koelman is one of Jascha Heifetz's last pupils and was the first leader of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra for many years. He teaches at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and is frequently invited as a juror and guest professor at international violin competitions and master courses. Besides his teaching career he regularly performs worldwide as a soloist and has made numerous TV, radio and CD recordings - among them, a live recording of all 24 Paganini Caprices. In 2010, he performed in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam with the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra and recorded live both Paganini Violin Concertos. They were released on Challenge Records and won the prestigious Edison Award.
Dutch violinist Rudolf Koelman is one of Jascha Heifetz's last pupils and was the first leader of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra for many years. He teaches at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and is frequently invited as a juror and guest professor at international violin competitions and master courses. Besides his teaching career he regularly performs worldwide as a soloist and has made numerous TV, radio and CD recordings - among them, a live recording of all 24 Paganini Caprices. In 2010, he performed in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam with the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra and recorded live both Paganini Violin Concertos. They were released on Challenge Records and won the prestigious Edison Award.
Dutch violinist Rudolf Koelman is one of Jascha Heifetz's last pupils and was the first leader of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra for many years. He teaches at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and is frequently invited as a juror and guest professor at international violin competitions and master courses. Besides his teaching career he regularly performs worldwide as a soloist and has made numerous TV, radio and CD recordings - among them, a live recording of all 24 Paganini Caprices. In 2010, he performed in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam with the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra and recorded live both Paganini Violin Concertos. They were released on Challenge Records and won the prestigious Edison Award.
Dutch violinist Rudolf Koelman is one of Jascha Heifetz's last pupils and was the first leader of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra for many years. He teaches at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and is frequently invited as a juror and guest professor at international violin competitions and master courses. Besides his teaching career he regularly performs worldwide as a soloist and has made numerous TV, radio and CD recordings - among them, a live recording of all 24 Paganini Caprices. In 2010, he performed in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam with the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra and recorded live both Paganini Violin Concertos. They were released on Challenge Records and won the prestigious Edison Award.
Luigi Boccherini was a Cello virtuoso player from Lucca, Italy. The cello being his own instrument, it is not surprising to learn that Boccherini composed over 30 sonatas for cello and basso continuo. From these the six Sonatas published in England in 1771, and later transcribed with accompaniment by modern piano, are considered his most important work as regards Cello, and Maria Tchaikovskaya choose the Cello Sonata No. 3 to show the essence of his composing concepts through interpretation Topics: 1. The taste of the composer and how to express it - 2. How to play Forte and Piano in a Largo movement - 3. When to use shifts and when not to use them
Luigi Boccherini was a Cello virtuoso player from Lucca, Italy. The cello being his own instrument, it is not surprising to learn that Boccherini composed over 30 sonatas for cello and basso continuo. From these the six Sonatas published in England in 1771, and later transcribed with accompaniment by modern piano, are considered his most important work as regards Cello, and Maria Tchaikovskaya choose the Cello Sonata No. 3 to show the essence of his composing concepts through interpretation Topics: 1. The taste of the composer and how to express it - 2. How to play Forte and Piano in a Largo movement - 3. When to use shifts and when not to use them
Luigi Boccherini was a Cello virtuoso player from Lucca, Italy. The cello being his own instrument, it is not surprising to learn that Boccherini composed over 30 sonatas for cello and basso continuo. From these the six Sonatas published in England in 1771, and later transcribed with accompaniment by modern piano, are considered his most important work as regards Cello, and Maria Tchaikovskaya choose the Cello Sonata No. 3 to show the essence of his composing concepts through interpretation Topics: 1. The taste of the composer and how to express it - 2. How to play Forte and Piano in a Largo movement - 3. When to use shifts and when not to use them
Marco Pierobon is an accomplished Italian trumpet player and professor. He won first prize in international competitions of Passau, Germany, Imperia and Aqui Terme. For nearly a decade, Marco is the "Principal Trumpet" of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra of Florence and the Accademia di Santa Cecilia Orchestra of Rome, and has collaborated with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Filarmonica della Scala Orchestra. Since 2007, Marco is trumpet professor at the Conservatories of Bolzano and Reggio Emilia, Italy.
One of the most sought after cello pedagogues, Israeli cellist Amit Peled is a Professor at the Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University. From the United States to Europe to the Middle East and Asia, Peled is acclaimed as one of the most exciting instrumentalists on the concert stage today and described as a musician of profound artistry and charismatic stage presence. Peled often surprises audiences with the ways he breaks down barriers between performers and the public, making classical music more accessible to wider audiences. Tim Smith of the Baltimore Sun reflected on a recent performance: "Peled did a lot of joking in remarks to the audience. His amiable and inviting personality is exactly the type everyone says we'll need more of if classical music is to survive." Peled was chosen among "Musical America's 30 Professionals of the Year 2015 and performs on Pablo Casals's own cello, a 1733 Matteo Gofriller loaned to him by the great cellist's widow, Marta.
One of the most sought after cello pedagogues, Israeli cellist Amit Peled is a Professor at the Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University. From the United States to Europe to the Middle East and Asia, Peled is acclaimed as one of the most exciting instrumentalists on the concert stage today and described as a musician of profound artistry and charismatic stage presence. Peled often surprises audiences with the ways he breaks down barriers between performers and the public, making classical music more accessible to wider audiences.
Tim Smith of the Baltimore Sun reflected on a recent performance: "Peled did a lot of joking in remarks to the audience. His amiable and inviting personality is exactly the type everyone says we'll need more of if classical music is to survive." Peled was chosen among "Musical America's 30 Professionals of the Year 2015 and performs on Pablo Casals's own cello, a 1733 Matteo Gofriller loaned to him by the great cellist's widow, Marta.
Born in 1975 in Russia to a family of musicians, Isaac Stern has called Sergey Ostrovsky "One of the most outstanding Israeli violinists." Sergey Ostrovsky , has built an active and successful career as Aviv Quartet's first violinist, a soloist, violin and chamber music Professor of Haute Ecole de Musique de Geneve (Neuchatel Branch) and a first concertmaster of Orchestre de la Palau des les Arts de Comunidad Valenciana in Spain.
As a first violinist and a founder in 1996 of the Aviv String Quartet, Sergey won several top prizes at international competitions, as well as the Israeli Prize of Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Education of Germany, and Chamber Music Annual Prize, awarded by the National Lottery of Israel.
Born in 1975 in Russia to a family of musicians, Isaac Stern has called Sergey Ostrovsky "One of the most outstanding Israeli violinists." Sergey Ostrovsky, has built an active and successful career as Aviv Quartet's first violinist, a soloist, violin and chamber music Professor of Haute Ecole de Musique de Geneve (Neuchatel Branch) and a first concertmaster of Orchestre de la Palau des les Arts de Comunidad Valenciana in Spain.
Born in 1975 in Russia to a family of musicians, Isaac Stern has called Sergey Ostrovsky "One of the most outstanding Israeli violinists." Sergey Ostrovsky, has built an active and successful career as Aviv Quartet's first violinist, a soloist, violin and chamber music Professor of Haute Ecole de Musique de Geneve (Neuchatel Branch) and a first concertmaster of Orchestre de la Palau des les Arts de Comunidad Valenciana in Spain.
As a first violinist and a founder in 1996 of the Aviv String Quartet, Sergey won several top prizes at international competitions, as well as the Israeli Prize of Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Education of Germany, and Chamber Music Annual Prize, awarded by the National Lottery of Israel.
Born in 1975 in Russia to a family of musicians, Isaac Stern has called Sergey Ostrovsky "One of the most outstanding Israeli violinists." Sergey Ostrovsky , has built an active and successful career as Aviv Quartet's first violinist, a soloist, violin and chamber music Professor of Haute Ecole de Musique de Geneve (Neuchatel Branch) and a first concertmaster of Orchestre de la Palau des les Arts de Comunidad Valenciana in Spain.
As a first violinist and a founder in 1996 of the Aviv String Quartet, Sergey won several top prizes at international competitions, as well as the Israeli Prize of Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Education of Germany, and Chamber Music Annual Prize, awarded by the National Lottery of Israel.
Born in 1975 in Russia to a family of musicians, Isaac Stern has called Sergey Ostrovsky "One of the most outstanding Israeli violinists." Sergey Ostrovsky , has built an active and successful career as Aviv Quartet's first violinist, a soloist, violin and chamber music Professor of Haute Ecole de Musique de Geneve (Neuchatel Branch) and a first concertmaster of Orchestre de la Palau des les Arts de Comunidad Valenciana in Spain.
As a first violinist and a founder in 1996 of the Aviv String Quartet, Sergey won several top prizes at international competitions, as well as the Israeli Prize of Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Education of Germany, and Chamber Music Annual Prize, awarded by the National Lottery of Israel.
An important lesson, which brings back to the principles of playing, like the habits in pressing the keys, determine the metronomic tempo for every note and many more precious pieces of advice.
Klaidi Sahatci is the first Concertmaster of the Tonhalle-Orchestra Zurich and professor at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano. Born in Albania, he began his musical studies at the age of six. In 1992 he moved to Italy where he was admitted at the Conservatorio Di Musica G. Verdi in Milan and studied with Salvatore Accardo at the Walter Stauffer Academy in Cremona.
Sahatci was the first Concertmaster of the Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra. He regularly plays chamber music and as a soloist. His career as a soloist started in 1994 with the RAI Orchestra.
Ricardo Castro is a pianist and conductor with a huge career who studied with Maria Tipo at the Conservatory of Music in Geneva. He teaches at the Fribourg Conservatory, "HEMU - Haute Ecole de Musique Vaud-Valais-Fribourg" in Switzerland. His career began with a 1987 ex-aequo win at the International Competition of the ARD in Munich.
Castro is the founder of NEOJIBA (State Centers of Youth and Children's Orchestras of Bahia), a pioneering program in Brazil and project inspired by El Sistema in Venezuela. Castro was Invited by the Government of the State of Bahia, to create The Youth Orchestra of Bahia (YOBA), of which he is the founder, principal conductor and artistic director. The YOBA Orchestra gives yearly around 30 concerts in the USA and Europe. In 2013 he was the first Brazilian to receive the Honorary Membership of the Royal Philharmonic Society London.
Ricardo Castro is a pianist and conductor with a huge career who studied with Maria Tipo at the Conservatory of Music in Geneva. He teaches at the Fribourg Conservatory, "HEMU - Haute Ecole de Musique Vaud-Valais-Fribourg" in Switzerland. His career began with a 1987 ex-aequo win at the International Competition of the ARD in Munich. Castro is the founder of NEOJIBA (State Centers of Youth and Children's Orchestras of Bahia), a pioneering program in Brazil and project inspired by El Sistema in Venezuela. Castro was Invited by the Government of the State of Bahia, to create The Youth Orchestra of Bahia (YOBA), of which he is the founder, principal conductor and artistic director. The YOBA Orchestra gives yearly around 30 concerts in the USA and Europe. In 2013 he was the first Brazilian to receive the Honorary Membership of the Royal Philharmonic Society London.
Another very important lesson about the method developed by Moshe Feldenkrais , around 1950, which is followed today by thousands of successful pianists. Featuring Fryderyk Chopin's Opus 10 Etude No. 4 .
Quite demanding and technical composition, in which student, Beste Tanagardigil have to play fast and precise, respecting the accents, with an extended series of modulations. Aims of the masterclass: 1) Left-hand harmony lead 2) Forte and legato at speed 3) Accents and Clarity.
Ricardo Castro is a pianist and conductor with a huge career who studied with Maria Tipo at the Conservatory of Music in Geneva. He teaches at the Fribourg Conservatory, "HEMU - Haute Ecole de Musique Vaud-Valais-Fribourg" in Switzerland. His career began with a 1987 ex-aequo win at the International Competition of the ARD in Munich. Castro is the founder of NEOJIBA (State Centers of Youth and Children's Orchestras of Bahia), a pioneering program in Brazil and project inspired by El Sistema in Venezuela. Castro was Invited by the Government of the State of Bahia, to create The Youth Orchestra of Bahia (YOBA), of which he is the founder, principal conductor and artistic director. The YOBA Orchestra gives yearly around 30 concerts in the USA and Europe. In 2013 he was the first Brazilian to receive the Honorary Membership of the Royal Philharmonic Society London.
Composed in 1915, it's the only Cello Sonata that Debussy left us. It expresses beautiful harmonic progressions and utilises a rich palette of different timbres. Peter Szabo comes along many topics recursively in the three tutorial, and the main goals are:
1. Melodies on one string
2. Fingers posture
3. Technical problems solving
4. Style for the Cadenza
5. Balancing Piano and Cello
One of the most sought after cello pedagogues, Israeli cellist Amit Peled is a Professor at the Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University. From the United States to Europe to the Middle East and Asia, Peled is acclaimed as one of the most exciting instrumentalists on the concert stage today and described as a musician of profound artistry and charismatic stage presence.
Peled often surprises audiences with the ways he breaks down barriers between performers and the public, making classical music more accessible to wider audiences. Tim Smith of the Baltimore Sun reflected on a recent performance: "Peled did a lot of joking in remarks to the audience. His amiable and inviting personality is exactly the type everyone says we'll need more of if classical music is to survive." Peled was chosen among "Musical America's 30 Professionals of the Year 2015 and performs on Pablo Casals's own cello, a 1733 Matteo Gofriller loaned to him by the great cellist's widow, Marta.
One of the most sought after cello pedagogues, Israeli cellist Amit Peled is a Professor at the Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University. From the United States to Europe to the Middle East and Asia, Peled is acclaimed as one of the most exciting instrumentalists on the concert stage today and described as a musician of profound artistry and charismatic stage presence.
Peled often surprises audiences with the ways he breaks down barriers between performers and the public, making classical music more accessible to wider audiences. Tim Smith of the Baltimore Sun reflected on a recent performance: "Peled did a lot of joking in remarks to the audience. His amiable and inviting personality is exactly the type everyone says we'll need more of if classical music is to survive." Peled was chosen among "Musical America's 30 Professionals of the Year 2015 and performs on Pablo Casals's own cello, a 1733 Matteo Gofriller loaned to him by the great cellist's widow, Marta.
One of the most sought after cello pedagogues, Israeli cellist Amit Peled is a Professor at the Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University. From the United States to Europe to the Middle East and Asia, Peled is acclaimed as one of the most exciting instrumentalists on the concert stage today and described as a musician of profound artistry and charismatic stage presence.
Peled often surprises audiences with the ways he breaks down barriers between performers and the public, making classical music more accessible to wider audiences. Tim Smith of the Baltimore Sun reflected on a recent performance: "Peled did a lot of joking in remarks to the audience. His amiable and inviting personality is exactly the type everyone says we'll need more of if classical music is to survive." Peled was chosen among "Musical America's 30 Professionals of the Year 2015 and performs on Pablo Casals's own cello, a 1733 Matteo Gofriller loaned to him by the great cellist's widow, Marta.
The second part of Amit Peled masterclass on Dvorak's Cello Concerto second movement is a detailed examination of sections and phrases, with focused teaching in sound performance and technique about how to translate all of the intentions into an impressive performance.
One of the most sought after cello pedagogues, Israeli cellist Amit Peled is a Professor at the Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University. From the United States to Europe to the Middle East and Asia, Peled is acclaimed as one of the most exciting instrumentalists on the concert stage today and described as a musician of profound artistry and charismatic stage presence. Peled often surprises audiences with the ways he breaks down barriers between performers and the public, making classical music more accessible to wider audiences.
Tim Smith of the Baltimore Sun reflected on a recent performance: "Peled did a lot of joking in remarks to the audience. His amiable and inviting personality is exactly the type everyone says we'll need more of if classical music is to survive." Peled was chosen among "Musical America's 30 Professionals of the Year 2015 and performs on Pablo Casals's own cello, a 1733 Matteo Gofriller loaned to him by the great cellist's widow, Marta.
One of the most sought after cello pedagogues, Israeli cellist Amit Peled is a Professor at the Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University. From the United States to Europe to the Middle East and Asia, Peled is acclaimed as one of the most exciting instrumentalists on the concert stage today and described as a musician of profound artistry and charismatic stage presence. Peled often surprises audiences with the ways he breaks down barriers between performers and the public, making classical music more accessible to wider audiences.
Tim Smith of the Baltimore Sun reflected on a recent performance: "Peled did a lot of joking in remarks to the audience. His amiable and inviting personality is exactly the type everyone says we'll need more of if classical music is to survive." Peled was chosen among "Musical America's 30 Professionals of the Year 2015 and performs on Pablo Casals's own cello, a 1733 Matteo Gofriller loaned to him by the great cellist's widow, Marta.
One of the most sought after cello pedagogues, Israeli cellist Amit Peled is a Professor at the Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University. From the United States to Europe to the Middle East and Asia, Peled is acclaimed as one of the most exciting instrumentalists on the concert stage today and described as a musician of profound artistry and charismatic stage presence. Peled often surprises audiences with the ways he breaks down barriers between performers and the public, making classical music more accessible to wider audiences.
One of the most sought after cello pedagogues, Israeli cellist Amit Peled is a Professor at the Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University. From the United States to Europe to the Middle East and Asia, Peled is acclaimed as one of the most exciting instrumentalists on the concert stage today and described as a musician of profound artistry and charismatic stage presence. Peled often surprises audiences with the ways he breaks down barriers between performers and the public, making classical music more accessible to wider audiences.
One of the most sought after cello pedagogues, Israeli cellist Amit Peled is a Professor at the Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University. From the United States to Europe to the Middle East and Asia, Peled is acclaimed as one of the most exciting instrumentalists on the concert stage today and described as a musician of profound artistry and charismatic stage presence. Peled often surprises audiences with the ways he breaks down barriers between performers and the public, making classical music more accessible to wider audiences.
One of the most sought after cello pedagogues, Israeli cellist Amit Peled is a Professor at the Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University. From the United States to Europe to the Middle East and Asia, Peled is acclaimed as one of the most exciting instrumentalists on the concert stage today and described as a musician of profound artistry and charismatic stage presence. Peled often surprises audiences with the ways he breaks down barriers between performers and the public, making classical music more accessible to wider audiences.
One of the most sought after cello pedagogues, Israeli cellist Amit Peled is a Professor at the Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University. From the United States to Europe to the Middle East and Asia, Peled is acclaimed as one of the most exciting instrumentalists on the concert stage today and described as a musician of profound artistry and charismatic stage presence. Peled often surprises audiences with the ways he breaks down barriers between performers and the public, making classical music more accessible to wider audiences.
Legende , the famous solo work for Trumpet and Piano by Enescu , where the main feature is the constant evolving character of the music, as shown by the simple listing of dynamics indications which follow each other: Doux, Grave, Hesitante, Pathetique, Gracieux, Agite, Chantant, Vif, Furieusement, Reveur.
Virginie Robilliard from France is currently teaching at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne in Switzerland. She is regularly invited to give master classes all over the world. Born into a family of musicians, she gave her first public concert at the age of five. She studied at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon and graduated in the Juilliard School as a scholarship student of Dorothy Delay. She made her New York debut at the age of 19. Her international career has included appearances in Asia, South America, Europe, Canada and the United States. Virginie Robilliard plays a Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume 1869.
Virginie Robilliard from France is currently teaching at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne in Switzerland. She is regularly invited to give master classes all over the world. Born into a family of musicians, she gave her first public concert at the age of five. She studied at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon and graduated in the Juilliard School as a scholarship student of Dorothy Delay. She made her New York debut at the age of 19. Her international career has included appearances in Asia, South America, Europe, Canada and the United States. Virginie Robilliard plays a Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume 1869.
Virginie Robilliard from France is currently teaching at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne in Switzerland. She is regularly invited to give master classes all over the world. Born into a family of musicians, she gave her first public concert at the age of five. She studied at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon and graduated in the Juilliard School as a scholarship student of Dorothy Delay. She made her New York debut at the age of 19. Her international career has included appearances in Asia, South America, Europe, Canada and the United States. Virginie Robilliard plays a Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume 1869.
Virginie Robilliard from France is currently teaching at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne in Switzerland. She is regularly invited to give master classes all over the world. Born into a family of musicians, she gave her first public concert at the age of five. She studied at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon and graduated in the Juilliard School as a scholarship student of Dorothy Delay. She made her New York debut at the age of 19. Her international career has included appearances in Asia, South America, Europe, Canada and the United States. Virginie Robilliard plays a Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume 1869.
In 1967 Evangeline Benedetti was invited by Leonard Bernstein himself to become a member of the New York Philharmonic, the first female cellist and the second tenured woman. She remained an active and integral member for more than 40 years, during which time she played nearly 8,000 concerts and participated in countless recordings and television productions including the renowned Young People's Concerts conducted by Bernstein. Mrs. Benedetti served for 20 years on the faculty of Manhattan School of Music and is a sought after master clinician and guest artist. She currently lives in New York, where she teaches, continues to perform and serves on the boards of The Bloomingdale School of Music and The ViolinCello Society of New York.
In 1967 Evangeline Benedetti was invited by Leonard Bernstein himself to become a member of the New York Philharmonic, the first female cellist and the second tenured woman. She remained an active and integral member for more than 40 years, during which time she played nearly 8,000 concerts and participated in countless recordings and television productions including the renowned Young People's Concerts conducted by Bernstein. Mrs. Benedetti served for 20 years on the faculty of Manhattan School of Music and is a sought after master clinician and guest artist. She currently lives in New York, where she teaches, continues to perform and serves on the boards of The Bloomingdale School of Music and The ViolinCello Society of New York.
This concerto was composed for Antonin Kraft, a cellist of Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy orchestra. Although the composition sounds relaxed and lyrical, it's quite demanding for the orchestra, and for this motivation, it was put in doubt that Haydn was the real composer; but then in 1951, an autographed score was discovered in 1951, making the experts believe that the composition is indeed authentic.
The Hungarian-born British pianist Peter Frankl is visiting professor at the Yale School of Music within Yale University and Honorary Professor of the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. He studied at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, with Professors Lajos Hernadi, Kodaly and Weiner. Peter made his name on the international circuit as a young pianist in the 60's. He has performed with the leading orchestras in the United Kingdom, USA and Europe and appeared with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Herbert Blomstedt, Pierre Boulez and Riccardo Chailly. Among his many solo, orchestral and chamber music recordings are the complete Schumann and Debussy piano works.
Peter Frankl is a passionate teacher with a lot of humor. He encourages young pianists to be versatile and daring to find their own and unique way of performing.
Haydn was one of his era's keyboard virtuosos, and loved to write piano sonatas (more than 60!) for piano players. His Sonata in A-Flat Major has a very interesting second movement named Adagio , with a very refined structure and development, discussed by Peter Frankl and piano student Wouter Bergenhuizen.
A hymn to happiness and hope in the future, as it was written in December 1803 and performed for the first time in new year's January 1st 1804. Originally, Hummel's Trumpet Concerto was written in E Major, but it's often performed in E-flat Major, because it makes the fingering less difficult with modern E-flat and B-flat trumpets, that's why Marco Pierobon also choose E-flat Major for the masterclass.
The masterclass is based on how to play Cantabile , so Marco Pierobon , the teacher shows how to use at the best the features of modern trumpet to achieve a beautiful slow flow of the music, and how to make it enjoyable for the audience, expressing colours and contrasts at the best.
The third movement of the important concerto is a Rondo , so it has the cadence of a dance, and in addition the ending momentum. So Marco Pierobon dedicates part of the masterclass to the technique of breathing and interpretation in order to be light as a dance but impressive in all of the passages, with special topics in the tutorial B about how to play a wonderful tune rather then trying to be loud and how to build the tension for the Finale.
Born in 1975 in Russia to a family of musicians, Isaac Stern has called Sergey Ostrovsky "One of the most outstanding Israeli violinists." Sergey Ostrovsky , has built an active and successful career as Aviv Quartet's first violinist, a soloist, violin and chamber music Professor of Haute Ecole de Musique de Geneve (Neuchatel Branch) and a first concertmaster of Orchestre de la Palau des les Arts de Comunidad Valenciana in Spain.
As a first violinist and a founder in 1996 of the Aviv String Quartet, Sergey won several top prizes at international competitions, as well as the Israeli Prize of Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Education of Germany, and Chamber Music Annual Prize, awarded by the National Lottery of Israel.
Denis Zhdanov was born in Magadan, Siberia. He started his piano studies at 8 and began his cello studies at 11. He studied with Prof. Galina Zubareva in the Central Music School in Moscow. Denis won the International A. Rubinstein competition (Moscow 1997) and was awarded in the same year by the Vladimir Spivakov Foundation. Denis won First Prize and Audience Prize at the International Brahms Competition and at the International Aram Khachaturian competition.
Gulsin Onay graduated at the Paris Conservatoire, at the age of 16, winning the prestigious "Premier Prix du Piano". She won many prizes in top international competitions, including the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud (in Paris) and the Ferruccio Busoni (in Bolzano). Gulsin Onay's subsequent, truly international, career has spanned 68 countries across all continents, from Venezuela to Japan.
Gulsin Onay has given concerts in the major musical centres of the world. She holds the titles of State Artist in her native Turkey, and of soloist for the Presidential Symphony Orchestra in Ankara. She is "Artist in Residence" at Bilkent University in Ankara and holds an honorary doctorate degrees from Bosphorus University in Istanbul, and from Hacettepe University in Ankara. The Sevda-Cenap And Music Foundation awarded its prestigious 2007 Honorary Award Gold Medal to Gulsin Onay, and she was named "Pianist of the Year" in the 2011 Donizetti Classical Music Awards. In 2014 she was awarded the Honorary Medal of the 42nd Istanbul Music Festival.
The Hungarian-born British pianist Peter Frankl is visiting professor at the Yale School of Music within Yale University and Honorary Professor of the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. He studied at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, with Professors Lajos Hernadi, Kodaly and Weiner. Peter made his name on the international circuit as a young pianist in the 60's. He has performed with the leading orchestras in the United Kingdom, USA and Europe and appeared with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Herbert Blomstedt, Pierre Boulez and Riccardo Chailly. Among his many solo, orchestral and chamber music recordings are the complete Schumann and Debussy piano works.
Peter Frankl is a passionate teacher with a lot of humor. He encourages young pianists to be versatile and daring to find their own and unique way of performing.
CORNERSTONE LESSON LISZT An exhaustive masterclass about differences and similarities amongst four important Praeludium ; some parts are interpreted in different ways and compared to each other. Master Teacher Peter Frankl is a visiting Professor at the Yale School of Music and Honorary Professor of the Liszt Academy of Music. .A frequently asked Jury member at international competitions. Frankl studied at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, with Professors Lajos Hernadi, Kodaly and Weiner.
Recognized as one of the leading violinist of his generation, Gyorgy Pauk was born in Budapest, Hungary, and received his musical education at the renowned Franz Liszt Academy. He retired from the podium, after over more than 5 decades, playing his farewell concert in Budapest with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Ivan Fischer in 2008. Gyorgy Pauk is now professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he conducts a "Performers Class" with selected young talents from all over the world. He regularly visits the US where he is giving master classes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oberlin College Ohio and Juilliard School of Music in New York. His guest master classes included visits at Curtis, Peabody, Yale, Cleveland, Oberlin, Manhattan Schools, as well as in China, Japan and Israel and all over Europe.
Gyorgy Pauk has received several public honors in Britain and Hungary; also, he is Professor Emeritus of the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest. Gyorgy Pauk has been playing on his Massart Stradivarius of 1714, the Master's Golden Period.
Recognized as one of the leading violinist of his generation Gyorgy Pauk was born in Budapest, Hungary, and received his musical education at the renowned Franz Liszt Academy. He retired from the podium, after over more than 5 decades, playing his farewell concert in Budapest with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Ivan Fischer in 2008.
Gyorgy Pauk is now professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he conducts a "Performers Class" with selected young talents from all over the world. He regularly visits the US where he is giving master classes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oberlin College Ohio and Juilliard School of Music in New York. His guest master classes included visits at Curtis, Peabody, Yale, Cleveland, Oberlin, Manhattan Schools, as well as in China, Japan and Israel and all over Europe.
Gyorgy Pauk has received several public honors in Britain and Hungary; also, he is Professor Emeritus of the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest. Gyorgy Pauk has been playing on his Massart Stradivarius of 1714, the Master's Golden Period.
Dutch violinist Rudolf Koelman is one of Jascha Heifetz's last pupils and was the first leader of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra for many years. He teaches at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and is frequently invited as a juror and guest professor at international violin competitions and master courses. Besides his teaching career he regularly performs worldwide as a soloist and has made numerous TV, radio and CD recordings - among them, a live recording of all 24 Paganini Caprices . In 2010, he performed in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam with the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra and recorded live both Paganini Violin Concertos. They were released on Challenge Records and won the prestigious Edison Award.
Born in 1975 in Russia to a family of musicians, Isaac Stern has called Sergey Ostrovsky "One of the most outstanding Israeli violinists." Sergey Ostrovsky, has built an active and successful career as Aviv Quartet's first violinist, a soloist, violin and chamber music Professor of Haute Ecole de Musique de Geneve (Neuchatel Branch) and a first concertmaster of Orchestre de la Palau des les Arts de Comunidad Valenciana in Spain.
As a first violinist and a founder in 1996 of the Aviv String Quartet, Sergey won several top prizes at international competitions, as well as the Israeli Prize of Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Education of Germany, and Chamber Music Annual Prize, awarded by the National Lottery of Israel.
Born in 1975 in Russia to a family of musicians, Isaac Stern has called Sergey Ostrovsky "One of the most outstanding Israeli violinists." Sergey Ostrovsky, has built an active and successful career as Aviv Quartet's first violinist, a soloist, violin and chamber music Professor of Haute Ecole de Musique de Geneve (Neuchatel Branch) and a first concertmaster of Orchestre de la Palau des les Arts de Comunidad Valenciana in Spain.
As a first violinist and a founder in 1996 of the Aviv String Quartet, Sergey won several top prizes at international competitions, as well as the Israeli Prize of Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Education of Germany, and Chamber Music Annual Prize, awarded by the National Lottery of Israel.
Born in 1975 in Russia to a family of musicians, Isaac Stern has called Sergey Ostrovsky "One of the most outstanding Israeli violinists." Sergey Ostrovsky, has built an active and successful career as Aviv Quartet's first violinist, a soloist, violin and chamber music Professor of Haute Ecole de Musique de Geneve (Neuchatel Branch) and a first concertmaster of Orchestre de la Palau des les Arts de Comunidad Valenciana in Spain.
As a first violinist and a founder in 1996 of the Aviv String Quartet, Sergey won several top prizes at international competitions, as well as the Israeli Prize of Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Education of Germany, and Chamber Music Annual Prize, awarded by the National Lottery of Israel.
Born in 1975 in Russia to a family of musicians, Isaac Stern has called Sergey Ostrovsky "One of the most outstanding Israeli violinists." Sergey Ostrovsky, has built an active and successful career as Aviv Quartet's first violinist, a soloist, violin and chamber music Professor of Haute Ecole de Musique de Geneve (Neuchatel Branch) and a first concertmaster of Orchestre de la Palau des les Arts de Comunidad Valenciana in Spain.
As a first violinist and a founder in 1996 of the Aviv String Quartet, Sergey won several top prizes at international competitions, as well as the Israeli Prize of Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Education of Germany, and Chamber Music Annual Prize, awarded by the National Lottery of Israel.
Recognized as one of the leading violinist of his generation Gyorgy Pauk was born in Budapest, Hungary, and received his musical education at the renowned Franz Liszt Academy. He retired from the podium, after over more than 5 decades, playing his farewell concert in Budapest with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Ivan Fischer in 2008.
Gyorgy Pauk is now professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he conducts a "Performers Class" with selected young talents from all over the world. He regularly visits the US where he is giving master classes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oberlin College Ohio and Juilliard School of Music in New York. His guest master classes included visits at Curtis, Peabody, Yale, Cleveland, Oberlin, Manhattan Schools, as well as in China, Japan and Israel and all over Europe. Gyorgy Pauk has received several public honors in Britain and Hungary; also, he is Professor Emeritus of the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest. Gyorgy Pauk has been playing on his Massart Stradivarius of 1714, the Master's Golden Period.
Recognized as one of the leading violinist of his generation Gyorgy Pauk was born in Budapest, Hungary, and received his musical education at the renowned Franz Liszt Academy. He retired from the podium, after over more than 5 decades, playing his farewell concert in Budapest with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Ivan Fischer in 2008.
Gyorgy Pauk is now professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he conducts a "Performers Class" with selected young talents from all over the world. He regularly visits the US where he is giving master classes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oberlin College Ohio and Juilliard School of Music in New York. His guest master classes included visits at Curtis, Peabody, Yale, Cleveland, Oberlin, Manhattan Schools, as well as in China, Japan and Israel and all over Europe. Gyorgy Pauk has received several public honors in Britain and Hungary; also, he is Professor Emeritus of the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest. Gyorgy Pauk has been playing on his Massart Stradivarius of 1714, the Master's Golden Period.
Recognized as one of the leading violinist of his generation Gyorgy Pauk was born in Budapest, Hungary, and received his musical education at the renowned Franz Liszt Academy. He retired from the podium, after over more than 5 decades, playing his farewell concert in Budapest with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Ivan Fischer in 2008.
Gyorgy Pauk is now professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he conducts a "Performers Class" with selected young talents from all over the world. He regularly visits the US where he is giving master classes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oberlin College Ohio and Juilliard School of Music in New York. His guest master classes included visits at Curtis, Peabody, Yale, Cleveland, Oberlin, Manhattan Schools, as well as in China, Japan and Israel and all over Europe. Gyorgy Pauk has received several public honors in Britain and Hungary; also, he is Professor Emeritus of the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest. Gyorgy Pauk has been playing on his Massart Stradivarius of 1714, the Master's Golden Period.
Recognized as one of the leading violinist of his generation Gyorgy Pauk was born in Budapest, Hungary, and received his musical education at the renowned Franz Liszt Academy. He retired from the podium, after over more than 5 decades, playing his farewell concert in Budapest with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Ivan Fischer in 2008.
Gyorgy Pauk is now professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he conducts a "Performers Class" with selected young talents from all over the world. He regularly visits the US where he is giving master classes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oberlin College Ohio and Juilliard School of Music in New York. His guest master classes included visits at Curtis, Peabody, Yale, Cleveland, Oberlin, Manhattan Schools, as well as in China, Japan and Israel and all over Europe. Gyorgy Pauk has received several public honors in Britain and Hungary; also, he is Professor Emeritus of the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest. Gyorgy Pauk has been playing on his Massart Stradivarius of 1714, the Master's Golden Period.
A renowned violinist of China, Vera Tsu Wei-Ling is Professor and Master Tutor of the Central Conservatory in Beijing and Shanghai Conservatory. She is a jury member of many prestigious competitions worldwide.
Born in Shanghai, Tsu began studying at the Central Conservatory in Beijing in 1977, as a part of the first-generation of college students after the Cultural Revolution. During the distinguished international violin master Isaac Stern's the first visit to China in 1979, as a sophomore, Tsu performed for Mr. Stern and was featured in the overwhelming Oscar-winning documentary From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China. Tsu went to the USA in 1980, where she continued her study with Dorothy DeLay and Rafael Bronstein. From November 2000, Tsu was appointed the professor of violin of the Central Conservatory in Beijing. In September 2014, she was appointed Professor of Violin of Shanghai Conservatory. Ms. Tsu has given master classes in the U.S, Argentina, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and throughout mainland China. At the same time she maintains an active career as both a soloist and a chamber musician on music stages in China and abroad.
Beautiful movement from the Czech composer Johann Baptist Georg Neruda . The movement is not too long and it's not too difficult, so teacher Ram Oren uses it to focus on Meter all along the masterclass, with special topics about Syncopation in Tutorial A and Trills in Tutorial B.
In 1967 Evangeline Benedetti was invited by Leonard Bernstein himself to become a member of the New York Philharmonic, the first female cellist and the second tenured woman. She remained an active and integral member for more than 40 years, during which time she played nearly 8,000 concerts and participated in countless recordings and television productions including the renowned Young People's Concerts conducted by Bernstein. Mrs. Benedetti served for 20 years on the faculty of Manhattan School of Music and is a sought after master clinician and guest artist. She currently lives in New York, where she teaches, continues to perform and serves on the boards of The Bloomingdale School of Music and The ViolinCello Society of New York.
In 1967 Evangeline Benedetti was invited by Leonard Bernstein himself to become a member of the New York Philharmonic, the first female cellist and the second tenured woman. She remained an active and integral member for more than 40 years, during which time she played nearly 8,000 concerts and participated in countless recordings and television productions including the renowned Young People's Concerts conducted by Bernstein. Mrs. Benedetti served for 20 years on the faculty of Manhattan School of Music and is a sought after master clinician and guest artist. She currently lives in New York, where she teaches, continues to perform and serves on the boards of The Bloomingdale School of Music and The ViolinCello Society of New York.
Maria Tchaikovskaya , the former assistant to legendary Mstislav Rostropovich, brings the most genuine tradition legacy of the 20th century, with her thousand nuances and pieces of advice to play a great recital piece from David Popper. The difficulty is intermediate, and Maria uses the occasion to focus on a series of critical topics to interpret this basically Dance piece.
Topics: 1. Dance tempo with variations to entertain your audience - 2. From "Happy and Joyful" to "Powerful and Precise" - 3. Fingerings to keep sustained - 4. Wrist fundamentals in bowing
Grammy nominated conductor, cellist and conductor Dmitry Yablonksy was born in Moscow into a musical family. At the age of 9 he gave his orchestral debut playing Haydn's cello concerto. He emigrated with his mother, pianist Oxana Yablonskaya to New York where he studied with Lorne Munroe, Aldo Parisot and David Soyer at the Curtis Institute of Music. His Tchaikovsky Piano trio recording for Erato/ Warner with Repin and Berezovsky won numerous awards. Dmitry transcribed and edited works for cello, which was released by International Music Company and Dover Publications. Naxos released his recording of all 40 Popper etudes for solo cello in the fall of 2008, which received great critical acclaim. He organizes many festivals all over the world, including the Gabala Music Festival in Azerbaijan.
One of the most sought after cello pedagogues, Israeli cellist Amit Peled is a Professor at the Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University. From the United States to Europe to the Middle East and Asia, Peled is acclaimed as one of the most exciting instrumentalists on the concert stage today and described as a musician of profound artistry and charismatic stage presence. Peled often surprises audiences with the ways he breaks down barriers between performers and the public, making classical music more accessible to wider audiences.
Tim Smith of the Baltimore Sun reflected on a recent performance: "Peled did a lot of joking in remarks to the audience. His amiable and inviting personality is exactly the type everyone says we'll need more of if classical music is to survive." Peled was chosen among "Musical America's 30 Professionals of the Year 2015 and performs on Pablo Casals's own cello, a 1733 Matteo Gofriller loaned to him by the great cellist's widow, Marta.
Klaidi Sahatci is the first Concertmaster of the Tonhalle-Orchestra Zurich and professor at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano. Born in Albania, he began his musical studies at the age of six. In 1992 he moved to Italy where he was admitted at the Conservatorio Di Musica G. Verdi in Milan and studied with Salvatore Accardo at the Walter Stauffer Academy in Cremona.
Sahatci was the first Concertmaster of the Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra. He regularly plays chamber music and as a soloist. His career as a soloist started in 1994 with the RAI Orchestra.
Ricardo Castro is a pianist and conductor with a huge career who studied with Maria Tipo at the Conservatory of Music in Geneva. He teaches at the Fribourg Conservatory, "HEMU - Haute Ecole de Musique Vaud-Valais-Fribourg" in Switzerland. His career began with a 1987 ex-aequo win at the International Competition of the ARD in Munich. Castro is the founder of NEOJIBA (State Centers of Youth and Children's Orchestras of Bahia), a pioneering program in Brazil and project inspired by El Sistema in Venezuela. Castro was Invited by the Government of the State of Bahia, to create The Youth Orchestra of Bahia (YOBA), of which he is the founder, principal conductor and artistic director. The YOBA Orchestra gives yearly around 30 concerts in the USA and Europe. In 2013 he was the first Brazilian to receive the Honorary Membership of the Royal Philharmonic Society London.
Ricardo Castro is a pianist and conductor with a huge career who studied with Maria Tipo at the Conservatory of Music in Geneva. He teaches at the Fribourg Conservatory, "HEMU - Haute Ecole de Musique Vaud-Valais-Fribourg" in Switzerland. His career began with a 1987 ex-aequo win at the International Competition of the ARD in Munich. Castro is the founder of NEOJIBA (State Centers of Youth and Children's Orchestras of Bahia), a pioneering program in Brazil and project inspired by El Sistema in Venezuela. Castro was Invited by the Government of the State of Bahia, to create The Youth Orchestra of Bahia (YOBA), of which he is the founder, principal conductor and artistic director. The YOBA Orchestra gives yearly around 30 concerts in the USA and Europe. In 2013 he was the first Brazilian to receive the Honorary Membership of the Royal Philharmonic Society London.
One of the most technically challenging piano concertos in the standard classical repertoire is Rachmaninov's third Concerto in D Minor and the first movement is quite long with many tricky and demanding parts.
The variety of phrases, intensity, and techniques are so many that, as professor Onay says, "it sounds like a concert by itself", but still it's only one movement. Referring to Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 3 Intermezzo movement.
Gulsin Onay graduated at the Paris Conservatoire,at the age of 16, winning the prestigious "Premier Prix du Piano". She won many prizes in top international competitions, including the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud (in Paris) and the Ferruccio Busoni (in Bolzano).
Gulsin Onay's subsequent, truly international, career has spanned 68 countries across all continents, from Venezuela to Japan. Gulsin Onay has given concerts in the major musical centres of the world. She holds the titles of State Artist in her native Turkey, and of soloist for the Presidential Symphony Orchestra in Ankara. She is "Artist in Residence" at Bilkent University in Ankara and holds an honorary doctorate degrees from Bosphorus University in Istanbul, and from Hacettepe University in Ankara. The Sevda-Cenap And Music Foundation awarded its prestigious 2007 Honorary Award Gold Medal to Gulsin Onay, and she was named "Pianist of the Year" in the 2011 Donizetti Classical Music Awards. In 2014 she was awarded the Honorary Medal of the 42nd Istanbul Music Festival.
Feldenkrais Method for auto training is based on the awareness of the motor schemes and reorganizing of muscle reactions, improving the sound through a full-range connection between mind and body. Uri Vardi goes through specific topics regarding violin on Ravel's Tzigane
Hagai Shaham teaches at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University and he is Artist in Residence at Stony Brook University, New York. Student of the late renowned Professor Ilona Feher, he is the co-founder and a board member of the Ilona Feher Foundation for promoting young Israeli violinists. Shaham's awards include first prizes at the ARD Munich Competition and the Israel Broadcasting Authority Competition. Shaham highly motivateshis students to reach out for the best possible performance and possesses a lot of background knowledge of the repertoire.
Hagai Shaham teaches at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University and he is Artist in Residence at Stony Brook University, New York. Student of the late renowned Professor Ilona Feher, he is the co-founder and a board member of the Ilona Feher Foundation for promoting young Israeli violinists. Shaham's awards include first prizes at the ARD Munich Competition and the Israel Broadcasting Authority Competition. Shaham highly motivates his students to reach out for the best possible performance and possesses a lot of background knowledge of the repertoire.
One of the most sought after cello pedagogues, Israeli cellist Amit Peled is a Professor at the Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University. From the United States to Europe to the Middle East and Asia, Peled is acclaimed as one of the most exciting instrumentalists on the concert stage today and described as a musician of profound artistry and charismatic stage presence. Peled often surprises audiences with the ways he breaks down barriers between performers and the public, making classical music more accessible to wider audiences.
Tim Smith of the Baltimore Sun reflected on a recent performance: "Peled did a lot of joking in remarks to the audience. His amiable and inviting personality is exactly the type everyone says we'll need more of if classical music is to survive." Peled was chosen among "Musical America's 30 Professionals of the Year 2015 and performs on Pablo Casals?EUR(TM)s own cello, a 1733 Matteo Gofriller loaned to him by the great cellist's widow, Marta.
The most renown composition from Saint-Saens , moreover made famous by Mikhail Fokine, who used it to create the ballet solo choreography The dying swan . Amit Peled goes through every shade of this very poetic piece, with special topics about different vibrato and technique for sound.
In 1967 Evangeline Benedetti was invited by Leonard Bernstein himself to become a member of the New York Philharmonic, the first female cellist and the second tenured woman. She remained an active and integral member for more than 40 years, during which time she played nearly 8,000 concerts and participated in countless recordings and television productions including the renowned Young People's Concerts conducted by Bernstein. Mrs. Benedetti served for 20 years on the faculty of Manhattan School of Music and is a sought after master clinician and guest artist. She currently lives in New York, where she teaches, continues to perform and serves on the boards of The Bloomingdale School of Music and The ViolinCello Society of New York.
A First Prize winner of the International Pablo Casals Competition in Budapest (1968), Maria Tchaikovskaya was a Mstislav Rostropovich student. She is an active performer, and as a teacher, she served as the assistant to the late Rostropovich. Currently, she holds the position of professor at the Moscow State Conservatory. She frequently gives Masterclasses worldwide.
In 1967 Evangeline Benedetti was invited by Leonard Bernstein himself to become a member of the New York Philharmonic, the first female cellist and the second tenured woman. She remained an active and integral member for more than 40 years, during which time she played nearly 8,000 concerts and participated in countless recordings and television productions including the renowned Young People's Concerts conducted by Bernstein. Mrs. Benedetti served for 20 years on the faculty of Manhattan School of Music and is a sought after master clinician and guest artist. She currently lives in New York, where she teaches, continues to perform and serves on the boards of The Bloomingdale School of Music and The ViolinCello Society of New York. In 2016 her book Cello, Bow and You: Putting It All Together, was published by the Oxford University Press.
In 1967 Evangeline Benedetti was invited by Leonard Bernstein himself to become a member of the New York Philharmonic, the first female cellist and the second tenured woman. She remained an active and integral member for more than 40 years, during which time she played nearly 8,000 concerts and participated in countless recordings and television productions including the renowned Young People's Concerts conducted by Bernstein. Mrs. Benedetti served for 20 years on the faculty of Manhattan School of Music and is a sought after master clinician and guest artist. She currently lives in New York, where she teaches, continues to perform and serves on the boards of The Bloomingdale School of Music and The ViolinCello Society of New York. In 2016 her book Cello, Bow and You: Putting It All Together, was published by the Oxford University Press.
Janna Gandelman is the concertmaster of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and teaches at the Jerusalem Conservatory of Music. Janna Gandelman was born in Kishinev, Moldavia in 1967. At the age of 5 she started to play violin, taking lessons with Professor Weiner. Already at a very young age she has won numerous competitions still in the Soviet Union, National Violin Competition, Stoliarsky School Competition, International competition of USSR and Auer Competition. After immigration to Israel in 1979 she has continued her studies with legendary violin pedagogue, Professor Bondarenko, who was David Oistrach's assistant. Janna plays on Nicolas Lupot violin from 1799 loaned generously by the Yehuda Zisapel Foundation.
Virginie Robilliard from France is currently teaching at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne in Switzerland. She is regularly invited to give master classes all over the world. Born into a family of musicians, she gave her first public concert at the age of five. She studied at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon and graduated in the Juilliard School as a scholarship student of Dorothy Delay. She made her New York debut at the age of 19. Her international career has included appearances in Asia, South America, Europe, Canada and the United States. Virginie Robilliard plays a Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume 1869.
Virginie Robilliard from France is currently teaching at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne in Switzerland. She is regularly invited to give master classes all over the world. Born into a family of musicians, she gave her first public concert at the age of five. She studied at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon and graduated in the Juilliard School as a scholarship student of Dorothy Delay. She made her New York debut at the age of 19. Her international career has included appearances in Asia, South America, Europe, Canada and the United States. Virginie Robilliard plays a Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume 1869.
Denis Zhdanov was born in Magadan, Siberia. He started his piano studies at 8 and began his cello studies at 11. He studied with Prof. Galina Zubareva in the Central Music School in Moscow. Denis won the International A. Rubinstein competition (Moscow 1997) and was awarded in the same year by the Vladimir Spivakov Foundation. Denis won First Prize and Audience Prize at the International Brahms Competition and at the International Aram Khachaturian competition.
Uri Vardi studied at the Rubin Academy in Tel Aviv, was an Artist Diploma student at Indiana University, and earned his Master's degree from Yale University. His teachers have included Janos Starker, Aldo Parisot, Eva Janzer, and Uzi Wiesel. Born in Szeged, Hungary, Vardi grew up on kibbutz Kfar Hahoresh, Israel. Vardi has recorded and toured widely with the Israel Chamber Orchestra and was a founding member of the Sol-La-Re String Quartet. He has served as Assistant Principal Cellist of the Israel Chamber Orchestra and Principal Cellist of the Israel Sinfonietta. In 1990, following an extensive teaching and performing career in Israel, Vardi was appointed professor of cello at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In addition to his work at Wisconsin, Vardi has taught and conducted master classes at numerous music schools.
Uri Vardi has specialized in the Feldenkrais Method, for which he received the 1999 UW-Madison Arts Institute Faculty Development Award. He completed a Feldenkrais Practitioners Training and was certified by the Feldenkrais Guild of North America and by the International Feldenkrais Federation as a Feldenkrais practitioner in 2003. For the last five years, Vardi has created a new course at UW - Madison: " Feldenkrais for Performing Artists". In 2012,...
A First Prize winner of the International Pablo Casals Competition in Budapest (1968), Maria Tchaikovskaya was a Mstislav Rostropovich student. She is an active performer, and as a teacher, she served as the assistant to the late Rostropovich. Currently, she holds the position of professor at the Moscow State Conservatory. She frequently gives Masterclasses worldwide.
A First Prize winner of the International Pablo Casals Competition in Budapest (1968), Maria Tchaikovskaya was a Mstislav Rostropovich student. She is an active performer, and as a teacher, she served as the assistant to the late Rostropovich. Currently, she holds the position of professor at the Moscow State Conservatory. She frequently gives Masterclasses worldwide.
A First Prize winner of the International Pablo Casals Competition in Budapest (1968), Maria Tchaikovskaya was a Mstislav Rostropovich student. She is an active performer, and as a teacher, she served as the assistant to the late Rostropovich. Currently, she holds the position of professor at the Moscow State Conservatory. She frequently gives Masterclasses worldwide.
Sander Sittig from the Netherlands teaches chamber music, piano accompaniment and artistic research at the Rotterdam Conservatory "Codarts University for The Arts". After winning prizes at several international piano competitions he embarked on a career that took him all over Europe, the Far East and the USA often as a partner of famous violinists such as Shlomo Mintz, Ilya Grubert and Liza Ferschtman. Sittig recorded solo compositions by Mozart and chamber music on CD and performs regularly for radio and television. His recitals are famous for his lively and informative talks, often with multimedia support. Sander took part in the peace music project "Violins of Hope". His engagement to the music and young people is devoted and committed.
Peter Szabo from Hungary is the principal cellist of the Budapest Festival Orchestra and gives Masterclasses worldwide. As solo cellist of the World Orchestra for Peace, founded by Sir George Solti, he received in 2010 the UNESCO Artist for peace. In that same year he was awarded the Franz Liszt Prize for artistic accomplishments given by the Hungarian State.
In 2010, Peter Szabo has founded the Sinfonietta Pannonica Chamber Orchestra, of which he is the artistic director and conductor. Szabo studied at the Music Academy in Kolozsvar (Klausenburg) and at the Ferenc Liszt Academy in Budapest with Ferenc Rados, Gyorgy Kurtag and Laszlo Mezo where he graduated "Cum laude" in 1991.
Denis Zhdanov was born in Magadan, Siberia. He started his piano studies at 8 and began his cello studies at 11. He studied with Prof. Galina Zubareva in the Central Music School in Moscow. Denis won the International A. Rubinstein competition in Moscow 1997 and was awarded in the same year by the Vladimir Spivakov Foundation. Denis won First Prize and Audience Prize at the International Brahms Competition and at the International Aram Khachaturian competition.
Hagai Shaham teaches at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University and he is Artist in Residence at Stony Brook University, New York. Student of the late renowned Professor Ilona Feher, he is the co-founder and a board member of the Ilona Feher Foundation for promoting young Israeli violinists. Shaham's awards include first prizes at the ARD Munich Competition and the Israel Broadcasting Authority Competition. Shaham highly motivates his students to reach out for the best possible performance and possesses a lot of background knowledge of the repertoire.
Born in 1975 in Russia to a family of musicians, Isaac Stern has called Sergey Ostrovsky "One of the most outstanding Israeli violinists." Sergey Ostrovsky, has built an active and successful career as Aviv Quartet's first violinist, a soloist, violin and chamber music Professor of Haute Ecole de Musique de Geneve (Neuchatel Branch) and a first concertmaster of Orchestre de la Palau des les Arts de Comunidad Valenciana in Spain.
As a first violinist and a founder in 1996 of the Aviv String Quartet, Sergey won several top prizes at international competitions, as well as the Israeli Prize of Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Education of Germany, and Chamber Music Annual Prize, awarded by the National Lottery of Israel.
Born in 1975 in Russia to a family of musicians, Isaac Stern has called Sergey Ostrovsky "One of the most outstanding Israeli violinists." Sergey Ostrovsky, has built an active and successful career as Aviv Quartet's first violinist, a soloist, violin and chamber music Professor of Haute Ecole de Musique de Geneve (Neuchatel Branch) and a first concertmaster of Orchestre de la Palau des les Arts de Comunidad Valenciana in Spain.
As a first violinist and a founder in 1996 of the Aviv String Quartet, Sergey won several top prizes at international competitions, as well as the Israeli Prize of Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Education of Germany, and Chamber Music Annual Prize, awarded by the National Lottery of Israel.
Hagai Shaham teaches at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University and he is Artist in Residence at Stony Brook University, New York. Student of the late renowned Professor Ilona Feher, he is the co-founder and a board member of the Ilona Feher Foundation for promoting young Israeli violinists. Shaham's awards include first prizes at the ARD Munich Competition and the Israel Broadcasting Authority Competition. Shaham highly motivates his students to reach out for the best possible performance and possesses a lot of background knowledge of the repertoire.
Hagai Shaham teaches at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University and he is Artist in Residence at Stony Brook University, New York. Student of the late renowned Professor Ilona Feher, he is the co-founder and a board member of the Ilona Feher Foundation for promoting young Israeli violinists. Shaham's awards include first prizes at the ARD Munich Competition and the Israel Broadcasting Authority Competition. Shaham highly motivates his students to reach out for the best possible performance and possesses a lot of background knowledge of the repertoire.
Klaidi Sahatci is the first Concertmaster of the Tonhalle-Orchestra Zurich and professor at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano. Born in Albania, he began his musical studies at the age of six. In 1992 he moved to Italy where he was admitted at the Conservatorio Di Musica G. Verdi in Milan and studied with Salvatore Accardo at the Walter Stauffer Academy in Cremona.
Sahatci was the first Concertmaster of the Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra. He regularly plays chamber music and as a soloist. His career as a soloist started in 1994 with the RAI Orchestra.
Klaidi Sahatci is the first Concertmaster of the Tonhalle-Orchestra Zurich and professor at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano. Born in Albania, he began his musical studies at the age of six. In 1992 he moved to Italy where he was admitted at the Conservatorio Di Musica G. Verdi in Milan and studied with Salvatore Accardo at the Walter Stauffer Academy in Cremona.
Sahatci was the first Concertmaster of the Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra. He regularly plays chamber music and as a soloist. His career as a soloist started in 1994 with the RAI Orchestra.
A First Prize winner of the International Pablo Casals Competition in Budapest (1968), Maria Tchaikovskaya was a student of Mstislav Rostropovich. She is an active performer and as a teacher, she served as the assistant to the late Rostropovich. Currently, she holds a position of professor at the Moscow State Conservatory. She frequently gives Masterclasses worldwide.
Recognized as one of the leading violinist of his generation Gyorgy Pauk was born in Budapest, Hungary, and received his musical education at the renowned Franz Liszt Academy. He retired from the podium, after over more than 5 decades, playing his farewell concert in Budapest with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Ivan Fischer in 2008. Gyorgy Pauk is now professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he conducts a "Performers Class" with selected young talents from all over the world. He regularly visits the US where he is giving master classes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oberlin College Ohio and Juilliard School of Music in New York. His guest master classes included visits at Curtis, Peabody, Yale, Cleveland, Oberlin, Manhattan Schools, as well as in China, Japan and Israel and all over Europe. Gyorgy Pauk has received several public honors in Britain and Hungary; also, he is Professor Emeritus of the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest. Gyorgy Pauk has been playing on his Massart Stradivarius of 1714, the Master's Golden Period.
Recognized as one of the leading violinist of his generation, Gyorgy Pauk was born in Budapest, Hungary, and received his musical education at the renowned Franz Liszt Academy. He retired from the podium, after over more than 5 decades, playing his farewell concert in Budapest with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Ivan Fischer in 2008. Gyorgy Pauk is now professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he conducts a "Performers Class" with selected young talents from all over the world. He regularly visits the US where he is giving master classes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oberlin College Ohio and Juilliard School of Music in New York. His guest master classes included visits at Curtis, Peabody, Yale, Cleveland, Oberlin, Manhattan Schools, as well as in China, Japan and Israel and all over Europe. Gyorgy Pauk has received several public honors in Britain and Hungary; also, he is Professor Emeritus of the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest. Gyorgy Pauk has been playing on his Massart Stradivarius of 1714, the Master's Golden Period.
Born in 1975 in Russia to a family of musicians, Isaac Stern has called Sergey Ostrovsky 'One of the most outstanding Israeli violinists.' Sergey Ostrovsky , has built an active and successful career as Aviv Quartet's first violinist, a soloist, violin and chamber music Professor of Haute Ecole de Musique de Geneve (Neuchatel Branch) and a first concertmaster of Orchestre de la Palau des les Arts de Comunidad Valenciana in Spain.
As a first violinist and a founder in 1996 of the Aviv String Quartet, Sergey won several top prizes at international competitions, as well as the Israeli Prize of Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Education of Germany, and Chamber Music Annual Prize, awarded by the National Lottery of Israel.
Born in 1975 in Russia to a family of musicians, Isaac Stern has called Sergey Ostrovsky "One of the most outstanding Israeli violinists." Sergey Ostrovsky , has built an active and successful career as Aviv Quartet's first violinist, a soloist, violin and chamber music Professor of Haute Ecole de Musique de Geneve (Neuchatel Branch) and a first concertmaster of Orchestre de la Palau des les Arts de Comunidad Valenciana in Spain.
As a first violinist and a founder in 1996 of the Aviv String Quartet, Sergey won several top prizes at international competitions, as well as the Israeli Prize of Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Education of Germany, and Chamber Music Annual Prize, awarded by the National Lottery of Israel.
Virginie Robilliard from France is currently teaching at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne in Switzerland. She is regularly invited to give master classes all over the world. Born into a family of musicians, she gave her first public concert at the age of five. She studied at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon and graduated in the Juilliard School as a scholarship student of Dorothy Delay. She made her New York debut at the age of 19. Her international career has included appearances in Asia, South America, Europe, Canada and the United States. Virginie Robilliard plays a Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume 1869.
Dutch violinist Rudolf Koelman is one of Jascha Heifetz's last pupils and was the first leader of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra for many years. He teaches at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and is frequently invited as a juror and guest professor at international violin competitions and master courses. Besides his teaching career he regularly performs worldwide as a soloist and has made numerous TV, radio and CD recordings - among them, a live recording of all 24 Paganini Caprices . In 2010, he performed in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam with the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra and recorded live both Paganini Violin Concertos. They were released on Challenge Records and won the prestigious Edison Award.
Dutch violinist Rudolf Koelman is one of Jascha Heifetz's last pupils and was the first leader of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra for many years. He teaches at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and is frequently invited as a juror and guest professor at international violin competitions and master courses. Besides his teaching career he regularly performs worldwide as a soloist and has made numerous TV, radio and CD recordings - among them, a live recording of all 24 Paganini Caprices . In 2010, he performed in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam with the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra and recorded live both Paganini Violin Concertos. They were released on Challenge Records and won the prestigious Edison Award.
Dutch violinist Rudolf Koelman is one of Jascha Heifetz's last pupils and was the first leader of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra for many years. He teaches at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and is frequently invited as a juror and guest professor at international violin competitions and master courses. Besides his teaching career he regularly performs worldwide as a soloist and has made numerous TV, radio and CD recordings - among them, a live recording of all 24 Paganini Caprices.
In 2010, he performed in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam with the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra and recorded live both Paganini Violin Concertos. They were released on Challenge Records and won the prestigious Edison Award.
Recognized as one of the leading violinist of his generation Gyorgy Pauk was born in Budapest, Hungary, and received his musical education at the renowned Franz Liszt Academy. He retired from the podium, after over more than 5 decades, playing his farewell concert in Budapest with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Ivan Fischer in 2008. Gyorgy Pauk is now professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he conducts a "Performers Class" with selected young talents from all over the world. He regularly visits the US where he is giving master classes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oberlin College Ohio and Juilliard School of Music in New York. His guest master classes included visits at Curtis, Peabody, Yale, Cleveland, Oberlin, Manhattan Schools, as well as in China, Japan and Israel and all over Europe. Gyorgy Pauk has received several public honors in Britain and Hungary; also, he is Professor Emeritus of the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest. Gyorgy Pauk has been playing on his Massart Stradivarius of 1714, the Master's Golden Period.
