Virtuoso Opera Transcriptions for Violin and Piano

Posted By : enjopin | Date : 22 Nov 2009 06:17:11 | Comments : 3 |

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Gil Shaham was born in Illinois, USA, in 1971, and grew up in Israel. At the age of seven, he received violin lessons from Samuel Bernstein at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem. In 1980 he played for the great violin virtuosos Isaac Stern, Nathan Milstein and Henryk Szeryng, and in the same year he attended the Aspen Music School in Colorado, studying with Dorothy DeLay and Jens Ellerman.

Gil Shaham began concertizing at an early age. He gave his highly acclaimed debut at the age of ten as soloist with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra under Alexander Schneider. Less than one year later he performed with the Israel Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta. In 1982 he won first prize in the Claremont Competition and was admitted to the Juilliard School in New York as a pupil of Dorothy DeLay and Hyo Kang. In 1989 he began studies at Columbia University in New York.

Gil Shaham first came to Europe in the summer of 1986 when he gave a sensational performance at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. During the 1988/89 season, he stepped in at short notice for Itzhak Perlman in a concert with the London Symphony Orchestra under Michael Tilson Thomas at which he performed concertos by Bruch and Sibelius. In 1990 he was awarded the AVERY FISHER CAREER GRANT and in 1992 the PREMIO INTERNAZIONALE of the Accademia Chigiana in Siena. A further highlight in his career was his debut recital at the Carnegie Hall, New York in 1992. Gil Shaham performs regularly with leading orchestras throughout Europe, Japan and the USA under such conductors as Herbert Blomstedt, Sir Colin Davis, Charles Dutoit, Neeme Järvi, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, André Previn and Giuseppe Sinopoli, and participates in the Ravinia, Aspen and Tanglewood and Lucerne Music Festivals, among others. In 1999 he made his debut appearance at the Salzburg Festival performing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto under the direction of Zubin Mehta.

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CD
The Barber Of Sevilla (Rossini)
Paraphrase on Rossini's "Largo al factotum"

The Magic Flute (mozart)
Sarasate: fantasie

Orfeo ed Euridice (Gluck)
Melodie (Dance of the Blessed Spirits)

Tancredi (Rossini)
Paganini: I Palpiti

Love for Three Oranges (Sergei Prokofiev)
March

Der Rosenkavalier (Strauss)
Waltzes

Porgy and Bess (Gershwin)
Summertime
A woman is a sometime thing
My man's gone now
Bess, you is my woman now
It ain't necessarily so
Picnics are alright
There's a boat dat's leavin' soon for New York

Sadko (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)
Hindoo Song (Song of the Indian)

Carmen (Bizet)
Hubay: Fantasie brillante