Gil Shaham
Gil Shaham ( born February 19, 1971 in Urbana (Illinois), USA) is an internationally renowned violinist. He first studied with Samuel Bernstein at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem and studied with several well-known violinists. He plays almost the entire range, with an emphasis on romance.
Shaham plays a Stradivarius from the year 1699th
Shaham debuted in 1981 with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Alexander Schneider and the same year he also played with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Zubin Mehta. In 1982 he was accepted at the Juilliard School in New York and taught there from Dorothy DeLay and Hyo Kang. From 1989 he studied at Columbia University. In 1986 he graduated from its European premiere at a concert during the Schleswig- Holstein Music Festival. In the concert season 1988/1989 he gave concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra, where he played music by Bruch and Sibelius.
In 1990 he was awarded the Avery Fisher Career Grant awarded.
In 1999, he was the first guest at the Salzburg Festival; under the direction of Zubin Mehta, he has performed with Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto.
Shaham worked with, among others, the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic.
In 1999 he received together with André Previn for American Scenes (Works of Copland, Previn, Barber, Gershwin ) a Grammy Award in the category Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance.