Tamar Halperin

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Tamar Halperin (* 1976 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli harpsichordist , pianist and conductor .

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Halperin, who grew up in Israel and initially pursued a career as a tennis player , studied music at the University of Tel Aviv; she continued her musical training at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis ; at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City she did her PhD on Johann Sebastian Bach .

With a repertoire spanning five centuries, she has performed with soloists such as Laurence Cummings and Idan Raichel, as well as orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and the English Concert Baroque Orchestra in Europe, North America, Israel, Japan, Korea and Australia. As a harpsichordist and conductor, she has worked with the Podium Festival Orchestra, The English Concert and the Cape Town String Exchange Ensemble.

In addition to baroque music, which is the focus of her work, Halperin also devotes herself to contemporary repertoire. In collaboration with the jazz pianist Michael Wollny , she recorded the highly acclaimed album “Wunderkammer”, which in 2010 received the ECHO as best piano album. The album “Wunderkammer XXL” was created with Jim McNeely and the hr big band . In 2012 she released the album “Wanderer” with her husband, the counterparty Andreas Scholl , with songs by Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and Brahms. On her album Satie (2016) she isolates the voices of Erik Satie's piano pieces and reassembles them, interpreting them on sometimes different keyboard instruments (in addition to the grand piano and the harpsichord, also on the glockenspiel , Hammond organ , Wurlitzer and a computer ). In the Trio BachSpace , she fuses the music of Bach with the violinist Etienne Abelin and the audio designer Tomek Kolczyński with samples , loops and sounds at the intersection of baroque music and electronica .

As a result of a German-Israeli family meeting, The Family Songbook was created in 2018 , which includes a large stylistic range of songs from different cultures.

Prizes and awards

  • 1998–2000: Fellow of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation
  • 2004: Honorary Prize at the Van Vlaanderen Musica Antiqua Brugge Competition
  • 2005: Presser Award
  • 2006: REC Music Award
  • 2006: Eisen-Picard Performing Arts Award
  • 2007: Eisen-Picard Performing Arts Award
  • 2010 and 2014: ECHO Jazz , for their “Wunderkammer” productions with Michael Wollny
  • 2016: Hessian Culture Prize (together with her husband Andreas Scholl)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ portrait (Turkish)
  2. ↑ Portrait (AICF) ( Memento from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Re-Mix.Bach@Scholl. NDR , November 25, 2018, accessed January 1, 2020 .
  4. ↑ CD - Andreas Scholl & Tamar Halperin The Family Songbook . BR Klassik , accessed August 3, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Hessian Culture Prize 2016 goes to Tamar Halperin and Andreas Scholl. Press office of the Hessian State Chancellery, October 10, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Halperin, Tamar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli harpsichordist, pianist and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Tel Aviv