Piano Festivities – Thursday

Three days of PIANO FESTIVITIES with Prize Winners of the
Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition
13 – 15 December, 2018
In memory of Jan Jacob Bistrizky

THURSDAY, 13 December, 20:00

DAVID FUNG
Best Performer of Chamber Music and Best Performer of Classical Concerto prizes,
at the 12th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, 2008

HAGAI SHAHAM, Violin
HILLEL ZORI, Cello

Program

DAVID FUNG, Piano
David Fung garnered international attention as a winner in two of the “top five” international piano competitions – the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv and the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition in Brussels.
Mr. Fung appears regularly with the world’s premier orchestras including Cleveland, Israel Philharmonic, Israel Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber, National Orchestra of Belgium, National Taiwan Symphony and New Japan Philharmonic. In 2016, Mr. Fung performed his highly acclaimed debut with the Cleveland Orchestra at the Blossom Music Festival, as well as his New York recital debut presented by Lincoln Center’s Great Performers. In 2017-18, he has solo recital debuts at the Brussels Piano Festival and the Kennedy Center, and performances with Orpheus, Albany Symphony, and Marin Symphony.
As a recitalist and chamber musician, Mr. Fung is a frequent guest artist at prestigious festivals worldwide. Festival highlights include the Aspen Music, Blossom Music, Edinburgh, Hong Kong Arts Festival, and Ravinia Festival.
Mr. Fung is a Steinway Artist. Learn more about the artist, at WWW.DAVIDFUNG.COM

HAGAI SHAHAM, Violin
Winner of the international competition ARD (Munich) 1990, Israeli violinist Hagai Shaham performs frequently as a soloist with orchestras in Israel and abroad, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (London), the BBC Philharmonic, the English Chamber Orchestra, the French Symphony Orchestra, and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
Shaham was the last pupil of the legendary teacher Ilona Feher (the teacher of Pinchas Zukerman and Shlomo Mintz), and in her memory, he established, in partnership with violinist Ittai Shapira and several of her students, a fund aimed at educating a new generation of violin teachers.
Hagai Shaham is a professor of violin at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University, and previously held a similar position at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles (USC).

HILLEL ZORI, Cello
Hillel Zori won the gold medal at the 1986 Maria Canals Competition, as well as prizes at the Rostropovich, Whitaker USA, Geneva, Stradivarius in Cremona, Shapira and Jackson awards in Tanglewood.
He was awarded the America Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship and graduated with honors at the Tel-Aviv Academy of Music with Uzi Wiesel and studied with Greenhouse in the USA.
He has performed with many orchestras including the Israel Philharmonic, Jerusalem Symphony, Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra, Jerusalem Camerata, the Scottish BBC Orchestra, Dusseldorf Symphony and the Vancouver Symphony, conducted by Mehta, Sheriff, Mandiel, Volkov, Brutons, Wellber and Avner Biron.
Zori is a frequent guest at many festivals such as the Israel Festival, Marlborough, Tanglewood, Berlin and Dartington festivals, has taught master classes around the world and is invited as a judge in international competitions.
In 2008 he was invited by Mehta to perform as a soloist at the UN General Assembly in New York at a concert marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Zori also writes and conducts. He composed a virtuoso suite for cello and orchestra on themes from the opera Carmen, a Fantasy for Voice and String Trio, and Carmel – a collection of songs and verses for voice and chamber ensemble.
He also serves as a chamber and orchestral instructor at the Jerusalem Music Center.
As a conductor he conducted the Israel Camerata and the Education Corps Orchestra.
He Released a disc at CELLO CLASSICS that was selected for the BBC’s “Disc of the Week”.
Zori is a professor at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University.

The event is Sponsored by

Daniel Ciobanu in London

DANIEL CIOBANU
Silver medalist and Audience Favorite prize at the 15th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, 2017, to perform a piano recital at St. John Smith Square, London.

Program

Daniel Ciobanu at Weill Hall

DANIEL CIOBANU
Silver Medal and Audience Favorite prize
at the 15th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, 2017.

Program

DANIEL PETRICA CIOBANU
27 years old Rumanian pianist Daniel Ciobanu, has most recently been awarded 2^nd prize and Audience Favourite prize at the prestigious Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master
Competition, Tel Aviv, 2017.
Mr. Ciobanu is the Artistic Director of Neamt Piano Festival, Romania; a graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS), under the tutelage of Aaron Shorr, Petras Geniusas and Steven Osborne.
He is a laureate of several international competitions, amongst them Concourse Internationale Musique de l’Orchestre Philharmonic du Maroc and the UNISA International Piano Competition in Pretoria, South Africa.
He has performed in international festivals in England, France and China; and with orchestras, such as the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Orchestra of Pretoria and the Israel Philharmonic. In September 2017 Ciobanu toured Japan, as part of the Rubinstein Competition’s winners tour and in October 2018 he will make his debut performance at Carnegie Hall, New York.

Daniel currently resides in Berlin.

Presented by the American Friends of the Arthur Rubinstein International Music Society (AFARIMS)

Spring Concert

SPRING CONCERT

By the AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN INTERNATIONAL MUSIC SOCIETY

DAVID FUNG, Piano
Laureate of the Rubinstein Competition, 2008

DANIEL MOODY, Countertenor

PROGRAM

 
DAVID FUNG
David Fung garnered international attention as a winner in two of the “top five” international piano competitions – the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv and the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition in Brussels.
Mr. Fung appears regularly with the world’s premier orchestras including Cleveland, Israel Philharmonic, Israel Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber, National Orchestra of Belgium, National Taiwan Symphony and New Japan Philharmonic. In 2016, Mr. Fung performed his highly acclaimed debut with the Cleveland Orchestra at the Blossom Music Festival, as well as his New York recital debut presented by Lincoln Center’s Great Performers.
In 2017-18, he has solo recital debuts at the Brussels Piano Festival and the Kennedy Center, and performances with Orpheus, Albany Symphony, and Marin Symphony.
As a recitalist and chamber musician, Mr. Fung is a frequent guest artist at prestigious festivals worldwide. Festival highlights include the Aspen Music, Blossom Music, Edinburgh, Hong Kong Arts Festival, and Ravinia Festival.
Mr. Fung is a Steinway Artist. Learn more about the artist, at WWW.DAVIDFUNG.COM

DANIEL MOODY
Countertenor Daniel Moody has garnered widespread acclaim for his commanding yet expressive vocal timbre and breathtaking musicianship. Mr. Moody enjoys singing opera, contemporary and early music alike. He has performed the title roles in Handel’s Giulio Cesare and Rinaldo, Oberon in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Nerone in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, and Arsamene in Handel’s Xerxes. Mr. Moody has sung with renowned groups, such as Les Violons du Roy and Apollo’s Fire and has performed at the Boston, Indianapolis and Washington Early Music Festivals. He was invited as one of four vocalists in Joyce DiDonato’s Carnegie Hall Masterclasses in 2016, broadcast on Medici TV.
Recent highlights include the American premiere of George Benjamin’s Dream of the Song at the Festival of Contemporary Music at Tanglewood Festival, two operas with Mark Morris Dance Group, and re-engagements with Apollo’s Fire, La Fiocco and Charleston Symphony. In 2018, Daniel will make his debut with Portland Baroque Orchestra, GMGS series at St. John the Divine in New York City, Illinois Symphony and Cincinnati Opera. For upcoming events visit: WWW.DANIELMOODYCOUNTERTENOR.COM
 

Presented by the American Friends of the Arthur
Rubinstein International Music Society (AFARIMS)

Boris Giltburg, London Recital

BORIS GILTBURG
Silver Medalist, Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, 2011.
Fundraising event presented by the UK Friends of the Rubinstein Competition, hosted by OLGARYTHM, a music education charity.

Program – Liszt & Rachmaninov

Boris Giltburg (Israel)
Born in 1984 in Moscow, Boris Giltburg moved to Tel Aviv at an early age, studying with his mother and then with Arie Vardi. He went on to win numerous awards, second (and audience favorite) prize at the Rubinstein in 2011, and in 2013 he won first prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition, catapulting his career to a new level. In 2015 he began a long-term recording plan with Naxos Records.

Giltburg has appeared with many leading orchestras such as Philharmonia Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, NHK Symphony, DSO Berlin, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic, St Petersburg Philharmonic and Baltimore Symphony. He made his BBC Proms debut in 2010, his Australia debut last season and has frequently toured to South America and China, also touring Germany with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse. He has played recitals in leading venues such as Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Carnegie Hall, London Southbank Centre, Louvre and Amsterdam Concertgebouw. This season Giltburg is Resident Artist in Brussels at both Flagey & Bozar, performing recitals and with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie / Paavo Jaervi and Brussels Philharmonic / Denève; he is also Artist in Residence in The Hague with the Residentie Orkest under Nicholas Collon, with whom he appears at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. In North America he plays for the first time with the Pacific Symphony / Gernon, Utah Symphony / Fischer and NAC Ottawa / Shelley. Engagements in the UK include his debut with the Halle Orchestra and returns to the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, CBSO and Bournemouth Symphony. Recital appearances this season include Southbank’s International Piano Series, Radio France, Bilbao Philharmonic Society, and Liszt Raiding Festival. He also tours Europe with the Pavel Haas Quartet, and was featured on their acclaimed 2017 Supraphon Dvorak quintets release. In 2017 Naxos released Rachmaninov’s 2nd Piano Concerto with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Carlos Miguel Prieto, coupled with the Etudes-Tableaux op.33. This followed Giltburg’s first concerto CD released in 2016, which won him a Diapason d’Or, for the Shostakovich concerti with Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, coupled with his own arrangement of Shostakovich’s 8th String Quartet. His Schumann, Beethoven and Rachmaninov solo discs for Naxos have been similarly well received. His 2012 Orchid release of the Prokofiev Sonatas was shortlisted for the critics’ award at the Classical Brits, and was closely followed by Romantic sonatas

Piano Festivities

DANIEL PETRICA CIOBANU
Silver Medal, Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition

Program

Daniel Petrica Ciobanu (Romania)
26 years old Rumanian pianist Daniel Ciobanu, has most recently been awarded 2^nd prize and Audience Favourite prize at the prestigious Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, 2017.
He is a graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS), under the tutelage of Aaron Shorr, Petras Geniusas and Steven Osborne. He currently resides in Berlin.
Daniel is a laureate of several international competitions, amongst them Concourse Internationale Musique de l’Orchestre Philharmonic du Maroc and the UNISA International Piano Competition in Pretoria, South Africa.
He has performed in international festivals in England, France and China; and with orchestras, such as the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Orchestra of Pretoria and the Israel Philharmonic.

In September 2017 Ciobanu toured Japan, as part of the Rubinstein Competition’s winners tour.
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Piano Festivities

LUCA BURATTO
Gold Medal, Honens International Piano Competition

Program

 
Luca Buratto (Italy)
After gaining first prize at the 2015 Honens International Piano Competition, Luca Buratto made his debut recital at Wigmore Hall London and at Carnegie Hall New York (October 2017).
Buratto was awarded third prize at the International Robert Schumann Competition and the special Acerbi prize, awarded to a distinguished Finalist at Milan’s Shura Cherkassky Competition, both in 2012.
Recent and upcoming orchestral engagements include Milan’s La Scala with Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi, London Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Edmonton Symphony, and Symphony Nova Scotia.
Buratto performed for the Progetto Martha Argerich at the Lugano Festival and at the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival, Busoni Festival, and was a resident artist at the Marlboro Music Festival.
He has been featured on national radio broadcasts: BBC Radio 3, CBC Radio 2, Radio Classica, Radio 3 RAI, WFMT and WQXR. In his spare time, he enjoys jigsaw puzzles and table tennis and has an interest in physics and American post-modern literature. Luca lives in Milan.
 

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SARA DANESHPOUR
Bronze Medal, Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition

Program

 
Sara Daneshpour (U.S.A.)
Apart from claiming the 3rd prize at the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, Tel Aviv 2017, Daneshpour has won several competitions, such as the Seoul International Music Competition, 2014, International Music Competition in Morocco, 2012, the 2007 William Kapell International Piano Competition and 1st prize at the International Russian Music Piano Competition 2007.
Sara has studied with Leon Fleisher at the Curtis and with Yoheved Kaplinsky at Juilliard. She is currently studying with Sergei Babayan at the Cleveland Institute.
She has performed throughout the U.S.A., Russia, Canada, Germany, Finland, Estonia, Norway, Denmark, France, Sweden, Spain, Israel and Japan. She performed in prestigious venues such as the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Carnegie Hall in New York and at the Great Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory.
Sara has been featured nationwide on 160 public radio stations in the U.S.A.
 

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Szymon Nehring at Wigmore Hall

SZYMON NEHRING, Piano
Gold Medal, Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition

Program

 
Szymon Nehring is the Gold Medalist at the latest Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, 2017, and claimed the prize for Best Performance of a Chopin Piece.
At the 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, he was Audience Favorite and received Honorable Mention. In 2016 he released two albums: Chopin’s Piano Concertos and Krzysztof Penderecki’s Piano Concerto “Resurrection”, conducted by the composer. He recently recorded Chopin’s works on a period instrument.
Nehring has appeared in Europe, Israel, North and South America. He recently toured Japan and China as part of a Rubinstein Winners Tour and made his debut recital at Carnegie Hall, New York. Future plans include performances at Chopin Festivals and at the Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival in Warsaw, concerts with the Israel Philharmonic and at the Elbphilharmonie Hall (Hamburg). In autumn 2017 Szymon has begun his studies with Prof. Boris Berman at Yale School of Music. Former teachers include Stefan Wojtas (Academy of Music, Bydgoszcz) and Olga Łazarska (F. Chopin’s School of Music in Kraków). Szymon Nehring is represented by the Ludwig van Beethoven Association.

SZYMON NEHRING at Carnegie Hall

SZYMON NEHRING, Piano Recital
Gold Medal, Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition

Program

 
Szymon Nehring is the Gold Medalist at the latest Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, 2017, and claimed the prize for Best Performance of a Chopin Piece.
At the 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, he was Audience Favorite and received Honorable Mention. In 2016 he released two albums: Chopin’s Piano Concertos and Krzysztof Penderecki’s Piano Concerto “Resurrection”, conducted by the composer. He recently recorded Chopin’s works on a period instrument.
Nehring has appeared in Europe, Israel, North and South America. He recently toured Japan and China as part of a Rubinstein Winners Tour and made his debut recital at Carnegie Hall, New York. Future plans include performances at Chopin Festivals and at the Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival in Warsaw, concerts with the Israel Philharmonic and at the Elbphilharmonie Hall (Hamburg). In autumn 2017 Szymon has begun his studies with Prof. Boris Berman at Yale School of Music. Former teachers include Stefan Wojtas (Academy of Music, Bydgoszcz) and Olga Łazarska (F. Chopin’s School of Music in Kraków). Szymon Nehring is represented by the Ludwig van Beethoven Association.
 

Presented by the American Friends of the Arthur
Rubinstein International Music Society (AFARIMS)