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Roméo Records 7273/4 |
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN (1809 – 1847) Daniel Gortler, piano |
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Daniel
Gortler has performed as soloist with orchestras such as the Israel and
London Philharmonics, Berlin and Bavarian Radio Symphonies, Suisse Romande,
as well as the Houston, San Francisco, New World, and Atlanta Symphony
Orchestras. He has played under the batons of maestros Gergiev, Mehta,
Eschenbach, Tilson Thomas, Levi, Talmi, Sloane, Welzer-Most, Honeck, Rodan,
Ahronovich, Grin and others. In addition to his frequent orchestral and
recital performances, Daniel Gortler is an avid chamber music performer.
He regularly performs with artists such as Bo Skovhus, Nikolaj Znaider,
David Garrett, and Steven Isserlis. Daniel Gortler won First
prizes in Chile's Vina del Mar International Competition in 1987, and
in the Bremen International Competition in 1991, Second in the Munich
International Piano Competition, and, at the age of 19, Second at the
Geneva International Competition. He has also won the Gina Bachauer Award
in Jerusalem and the Salon de Virtuoso annual award in New York. Gortler
studied the piano with Ms. Neomi Hacohen and graduated from the Rubin
Music Academy in Tel-Aviv University and the Musikhochschule in Hanover
Germany where he studied both places with Prof. Arie Vardi. Gortler is
currently a faculty member of the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel-Aviv
University. |
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