Amiram Ganz

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Amiram whole (* 29. July 1952 in Montevideo ) is from Uruguay originating violinist and violin teacher.

Amiram Ganz studied violin in his home country with Israel Chorberg, Ilya Fidlon and Jorge Risi. At the age of eleven he took part victoriously in the Jeunesses Musicales International competition. He then completed his training with Richard Burgin in the USA and with Alberto Lysy at the International Chamber Music Academy in Rome.

From 1974 to 1979 he was a full scholarship holder at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory , his professor was Viktor Alexandrovich Pikaisen . As the winner of several competitions, he moved to the Orchester Philharmonique de Strasbourg and became its first concertmaster in 1980 . From 1987 he was violinist of the Shostakovich Trio, with whom he gave concerts in the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam) , the Alte Oper in Frankfurt am Main , and the Tschaikovski Conservatory in Moscow.

In 1994, together with Claus-Christian Schuster and Martin Hornstein , he founded the Altenberg Trio in Vienna , with whom he has given concerts in Europe and North America (after Hornstein's departure in 2004, Alexander Gebert (* 1977) took over the cello part).

Ganz also performed as a soloist with conductors such as Alain Lombard , Theodor Guschlbauer , James Judd, Hiroyuki Iwaki and others

In 1981, Ganz also took over a professorship at the Strasbourg Conservatory . In the meantime he is professor for violin and chamber music at the Conservatory Vienna Private University .

Ganz plays a violin made by Goffredo Cappa in Saluzzo in 1686 .

Awards

  • Long-Thibaud in Paris
  • ARD in Munich

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Altenberg Trio

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