Gil Shaham
Gil Shaham (born February 19, 1971 in Urbana (Illinois) , USA) is an internationally known violinist . He first studied with Samuel Bernstein at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem and received lessons from various well-known violinists. He plays almost the entire range of violin literature, with an emphasis on romanticism.
Shaham plays a Stradivarius from 1699.
Shaham made his debut in 1981 with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Alexander Schneider and in the same year he also played with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under the conductor Zubin Mehta . In 1982 he was accepted at the Juilliard School in New York, where he was tutored by Dorothy DeLay and Hyo Kang . From 1989 he studied at Columbia University . In 1986 it had its European premiere at a concert during the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival . In the 1988/1989 concert season he gave concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra , playing music by Bruch and Sibelius .
In 1990 he was awarded the Avery Fisher Career Grant.
In 1992 he received the Premio Internazionale Accademia Musicale Chigiana .
In 1999 he was the first guest at the Salzburg Festival ; he performed Mendelssohn's violin concerto under the direction of Zubin Mehta .
Shaham has worked with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra , the Cleveland Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic , among others .
In 1999 he and André Previn received a Grammy Award in the chamber music category for American Scenes (works by Copland , Previn , Barber , Gershwin ) .
Shaham is married to the Australian violinist Adele Anthony. The couple have three children and live in New York.
Discography
- 1989: Max Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1
- 1991: Niccolò Paganini Violin Concerto No. 1
- 1991: Camille Saint-Saëns Violin Concerto No. 3 B minor op.61
- 1991: Henryk Wieniawski "Violin Concerto No.1 in F sharp minor op.14"
- 1991: Henryk Wieniawski "Violin Concerto No.2 in D minor op.22"
- 1991: Henryk Wieniawski "Legend in G minor op.17"
- 1991: Pablo de Sarasate Gypsy Ways op.20
- 1993: Jean Sibelius Violin Concerto
- 1993: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky violin concerto
- 1993: Niccolò Paganini Duos Shaham / Söllscher
- 1994: Samuel Barber Violin Concerto
- 1994: Erich Wolfgang Korngold Four pieces from the music of Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing"
- 1994: Antonio Vivaldi 4 seasons
- 1996: Sergei Sergejewitsch Prokofjew violin concertos 1 + 2
- 1996: Violin Romances
- 1997: Antonín Dvořák violin sonata
- 1997: Fiddler of the Opera
- 1997: Dmitri Borissowitsch Kabalewski Violin Concerto
- 1999: Béla Bartók Violin Concerto No. 2
- 1999: Arvo Pärt Symphony No. 3
- 2000: Olivier Messiaen Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps
- 2000: Devil's Dance
- 2002: Johannes Brahms : Violin Concerto
- 2003: Schubert for Two
- 2015: Johann Sebastian Bach : Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin
Web links
- Biography on Gil Shaham's website
- Works by and about Gil Shaham in the catalog of the German National Library
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SURNAME | Shaham, Gil |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American violinist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 19th February 1971 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Urbana, Illinois , USA |