Zvi Meniker

Zvi Meniker (* 1964 in Moscow ) is an Israeli harpsichordist , organist , fortepianist and musicologist .

Life

Born in Moscow, Meniker grew up in Israel and began studying music at the Mozarteum in Salzburg at the age of 15 . It was there and at the Zurich Conservatory that he passed his diploma with distinction. His teachers included Alois Forer, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Johann Sonnleitner. Meniker then continued his studies of historical performance practice with Malcolm Bilson at Cornell University in Ithaca , New York (USA). At Cornell University in 2001, Meniker also submitted his doctoral thesis on the performance practice of Frédéric Chopin's piano works .

Meniker is one of those musicians who make musicological studies productive for performance-related questions of playing on historical keyboard instruments .

Zvi Meniker has taught harpsichord and performance practice at Duke University in the USA and has been a long-time lecturer at the Academy for Early Music in Jerusalem. He was a lecturer at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University in Leipzig .

Since October 1999 he has been professor for harpsichord and early music at the Hanover University of Music and Drama .

Web links

• Zvi Meniker on the website of the Hanover University of Music and Drama