Shirley Brill
| Shirley Brill | |
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| job | Solo clarinetist and professor at the Saar University of Music in Saarbrücken |
| Genres | Classical music |
| Instruments | Clarinet and basset clarinet |
| Year of birth | 1982 (age 38) |
| Place of birth, nationality | Petah Tikva Israel
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| education | 1. Petah Tikva Conservatory with Yitzhak Katzap 2. Lübeck University of Music with Sabine Meyer 3. New England Conservatory of Music in Boston with Richard Stoltzman |
| Years active | since 1998 |
| Prices | 2003, 2006 and 2007 |
| Associated with | Duo brilliant |
| Recordings / streaming | 5 CDs - Youtube, Spotify, Deezer |
| CD label | MHL, Panclassics, hänssler Classic |
| agent | Concert agent Andreas Braun, Cologne |
| Website | https://www.shirleybrill.com/ |
| Personal | Married to Jonathan Aner, 3 daughters |
| residence | Berlin Germany
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Shirley Brill (* 1982 in Petah Tikva ) is an Israeli clarinetist who lives in Berlin.
Education and career
Shirley Brill received her first musical training from Yitzhak Katzap at the Petah Tikva Conservatory in Israel. Later she studied in Germany with Sabine Meyer at the Musikhochschule Lübeck and in the USA with Richard Stoltzman at the New England Conservatory of Music , Boston .
Shirley Brill began her solo career with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Zubin Mehta . Since then she has performed as a soloist with the Orchester de Chambre de Genève, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra , the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen , the Lübeck Philharmonic Orchestra and other international orchestras.
Shirley Brill performed at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival , the Heidelberger Frühling , the Rheingau Music Festival , the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg and the chamber music festival "Spannungen" founded by Lars Vogt in Heimbach (Eifel) and was at international music festivals in Davos (Switzerland), Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Montpellier (Festival Radio France). She played with Daniel Barenboim , Sabine Meyer , the Borromeo String Quartet, the Jerusalem String Quartet, the Esprit Trio and the Trio di Clarone, among others .
Shirley Brill was a visiting professor at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin and a lecturer at the Barenboim-Said Academy. Since October 2018 she has been professor for clarinet at the Saar University of Music in Saarbrücken .
Shirley Brill is very familiar with performing contemporary music. She regularly premieres pieces by young composers and expands the clarinet repertoire with her own transcriptions.
In 1999 Shirley Brill founded the Duo Brillaner with her future husband, the Israeli pianist Jonathan Aner, who is now a professor of chamber music in Berlin.
Honourings and prices
- 2003: Special prize at the international ARD music competition
- 2003: 1st prize for the Brillaner Duo at the 40th Possehl Music Competition
- 2006: 2nd prize International Clarinet Competition Markneukirchen (1st prize not awarded)
- 2007: 2nd prize Concours de Genève (1st prize not awarded)
- 2010: Shirley Brill takes on behalf of by Daniel Barenboim founded the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra to price the Peace of Westphalia opposed.
Instruments
Shirley Brill plays clarinets with a French fingering system, individually made for her by the Schwenk & Seggelke manufactory . It has normal clarinets in Bb and A made of grenadilla , mopane (see photo) and boxwood and an A basset clarinet made of boxwood.
Recordings
2005: Duo Brillaner Debut (at MHL) with Jonathan Aner :
- Carl Maria von Weber: Grand Duo Concertant op.48 in E flat major
- Camille Saint-Saëns: Sonata for clarinet and piano op. 167 in E flat major
- Paul Ben-Haim: Pastoral Variée
- Krysztof Penderecki: Three miniatures
- Francis Poulenc: Sonata
2008: Weber & Baermann (at Pan Classics), with the Terpsycordes Quartet, the Geneva Chamber Orchestra and Patrick Lange :
- Carl Maria von Weber: Clarinet Concerto in F minor, Op. 73 No. 1,
- Heinrich Baermann: Clarinet Quintet in E flat major op.23,
- Carl Maria von Weber: Clarinet Quintet in B flat major op.34.
- Contributors: Shirley Brill, Orchester de Chambre de Genève / Patrick Lange, Quatuor Terpsycordes
2009: Petite Pièce: French miniatures for clarinet and piano (at Pan Classics) with Jonathan Aner :
- Gabriel Pierné: Sérénade, Andante con Eleganza, Pièce and Canzonetta
- Eugène Bozza: Fantasie Italienne, Idyll, Aria and Claribel
- Philippe Gaubert: Fantaisie, Romance, Allegretto
- Germaine Tailleferre: Trois Danses de la Nouvelle Cythère (Pavane, Nocturne, Galop) and Arabesque
- Claude Debussy: Petite Pièce and Prèmiere Rhapsodie
2012: Françaix & Prokofiev (at Pan Classics) with the Romanian National Radio Orchestra and Adrian Mora r:
- Jean Françaix: Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra
- Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata Op. 94 (arrangement for clarinet and orchestra by Kent Kennan)
- Jean Françaix: Tema con Variazion
2017: Sonatas (at hänssler Classic) with Jonathan Aner :
- Johannes Brahms, Sonatas for Clarinet and Piano, Opus 120 No. 1 and No. 2
- Leoš Janáček, sonata for clarinet and piano
The artist is represented with image and sound recordings on YouTube, with sound recordings on Spotify and Deezer.
Web links
- official homepage
- Shirley Brill Biography , America-Israel Cultural Foundation
- Prof. Shirley Brill , Saar University of Music
- YouTube video The Duo Brillaner performs: Leoš Janáček, sonata for clarinet and piano
Individual evidence
- ↑ Melancholy and vitality . In: deutschlandfunkkultur.de . Germany radio. June 3, 2008. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
- ↑ Jonathan Scheiner: Hip, inexpensive, cosmopolitan . In: Jüdische Allgemeine , April 24, 2012. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
- ↑ a b Jonathan Scheiner: "We shouldn't send a bomb" . In: deutschlandfunkkultur.de . Germany radio. August 24, 2012. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
- ↑ Joachim Pohl: Masterful in six concerts . In: Flensburger Tageblatt , September 21, 2012. Accessed December 6, 2019.
- ↑ Shirley Brill Biography . In: barenboimsaid.de . Barenboim – Said Academy. 2019. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
- ↑ Matthias Nöther: If the curl swirl ... . In: concerti.de . concerti Media GmbH. April 13, 2016. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
- ↑ Shirley Brill Biography . In: hfm.saarland.de . Saar University of Music. 2019. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
- ^ Website and Andreas Braun about Shirley Brill
- ↑ Sascha Jouini: Unclouded picture at winter concert . In: Gießener Allgemeine , February 19, 2014. Accessed December 6, 2019.
- ↑ Special price
- ↑ Prize Duo Brillaner
- ↑ Markneukirchen Prize
- ↑ Geneva Prize
- ↑ Westphalian Peace Prize 2010
- ^ Peace Prize West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
- ↑ OCLC 228069241
- ↑ OCLC 1045425597
- ↑ OCLC 883633539
- ↑ OCLC 1075960466
- ↑ OCLC 1015939436
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Brill, Shirley |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli clarinetist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1982 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Petah Tikva |