Uri Smilansky

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Uri Smilansky (* 1979 in Rehovot ) is an Israeli musician and musicologist with main residence in England .

Live and act

education

Uri Smilansky studied music, composition , viola and recorder at the Thelma Yelin High School for Music and the Arts in Tel Aviv / Israel from 1993 to 1997 and from 2001 to 2005 Fidel with Randall Cook and recorder with Conrad Steinmann at the medieval department of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel / Switzerland. In 2010 he received his PhD from the University of Exeter with Yolanda Plumley. He is a specialist in Ars subtilior music . Smilansky is currently working on editing the new complete edition on the work of Guillaume de Machaut at the University of Exeter .

Musician

Uri Smilansky served as Sergeant Major in the Education Corps of the Israeli Army ( Excelling Musicians Squad ) from 1997 to 2000 . Since 2002 he has played fiddle and viola da gamba with various ensembles for music from the Middle Ages and baroque music . He pursued a worldwide concert activity, participates in CD productions and radio recordings. He performs solo and ensemble playing with the Ensembles Leones ( Marc Lewon ), Perlaro , Dulce Melos , La Morra , In Echo and The Earle His Viols (Randall Cook). He founded his own ensemble Le Basile in 2003 with the singer Katharine Hawnt.

Teaching

Uri Smilansky was the head of ensemble work at Thelma Yelin High School / Israel from 1999 to 2000, recorder teacher at the Petach-Tikva Conservatory / Israel from 2000 to 2001 , and assistant at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis from 2004 to 2006 and leads the two-year in-service training series together with Marc Lewon on medieval music Early music of the high estates and the resonances of the music of the Middle Ages in the Academy Burg Fürsteneck .

Discography

  • Thro 'Seas Where Sail Was Never Spread Before , Ensemble Phoenix (Brascan Brasil SA, 2000).
  • The 2001 Aviv Competitions , solo (Jerusalem Music Center, JMC-CD 123, 2002).
  • Wind and Sea , Ensemble Phoenix (NMC, 2003).
  • La Tavola Cromatica , The Earle His Viols & Evelyn Tubb (Raumklang, RK 2302, 2004).
  • Otfrid von Weißenburg, Liber Evangeliorum , Ensemble Officium (Christophorus, CHR 77279, 2006).
  • Flour de Beaulté , La Morra (Ramée, RAM 0602, 2006).
  • Dame de deuil , La Morra (Et'cetera / Codaex, KTC 4011, 2005).
  • The Lochamer Liederbuch , Dulce Melos & Martin Hummel (Naxos 8.557803, 2008).
  • Kyrie , The Oxford Clerkes & Le Basile (The Gift of Music, 2008).
  • Vincenzo da Rimini , Perlaro (Rimini, 2009).
  • Sotto l'imperio del possente prince - Hommage Music of the 14th and 15th Century , Ensemble Perlaro (Pan Classics, 2010).
  • Les fantaisies de Josquin - The Instrumental Music of Josquin Desprez , Ensemble Leones (Christophorus, 2011) - contains the first recording of the composition Be praised, du Baum by Arvo Pärt .
  • John Danyel - Songs to Mistress Anne Greene , A Garden of Eloquence: Katharine Hawnt, Ziv Braha, Uri Smilansky (Etcetera, 2011).
  • Das Glogauer Liederbuch , Dulce Melos & Martin Hummel (Naxos 8.572576, 2012).
  • The Birth of the Violin , Le Miroir de Musique (Ricercar, RIC 333, 2013).
  • Colors in the Dark - The Instrumental Music of Alexander Agricola , Ensemble Leones (Christophorus, CHR 77368, 2013).
  • Monteverdi's Orfeo , The Taverner Consort & Players (AV2278, 2013)
  • Argentum et Aurum - Musical Treasures from the Early Habsburg Renaissance , Ensemble Leones (Naxos 8.573346, 2015)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Guillaume de Machaut
personal data
SURNAME Smilansky, Uri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli musician and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Rehovot