Israel Chamber Orchestra
The Israel Chamber Orchestra (ICO ) was founded in 1965 by Gary Bertini. In addition to the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra ( Zubin Mehta ), it is the most prestigious and most important orchestras of Israel. Seat of the orchestra and venue of annual concert series is Tel Aviv- Jaffa.
Artistic Director
Founder Gary Bertini was ten years artistic director of the orchestra; He was followed by, among others, Luciano Berio, Rudolf Barshai, Uri Segal, Yoav Talmi, Shlomo Mintz, Philippe Entremont ( chief conductor from 1995 to 1998, and later honorary conductor ), Salvador Mas Conde (1998-2001), Noam Sheriff (2002-2005) and Gil Shohat ( 2005-2008). In January 2009, Roberto Paternostro was appointed musical director.
Repertoire
The orchestra's repertoire ranges from baroque to contemporary music. Elizabeth Wallfisch was appointed Program Director of the Baroque center of gravity 2009. The Viennese classics can be found just as regularly in the programs of the ICO as premieres of works by Israeli composers.
The ICO designed annual concert series for young audiences. "For the Entire Family" is equally well received by children, teenagers and critics.
International concerts
Concert tours have taken the Israel Chamber Orchestra in several Central European countries, North and South America and the Far East. Guest performances at festivals in Salzburg, Athens, Sofia, Helsinki, other European capitals, Istanbul, Pompeii and Hong Kong brought the Kammerorchester the reputation of being one of the best of its kind.
In 2010 under the leadership of Roberto Paternostro concerts in Germany (Stuttgart, Cologne), Austria (International Haydn Festival Eisenstadt, Linz Bruckner Festival ) and CD recordings in Vienna. Soloists Elena Bashkirova occur for the first time with the ICO in Europe.
On 27 July 2011, the Israel Chamber Orchestra played the first Israeli orchestra ever composed by Richard Wagner in Bayreuth Music ( Richard Wagner is considered an anti-Semite and Hitler's favorite composer ). The project, which was under the patronage of Catherine Wagner was controversial and intensely in Israel in advance.
From 12 to 18 September 2013, the IOC played in Upper Austria's capital Linz with a great success under the direction of renowned conductor Martin Sieghart the opera " The Treasure Hunter " by Franz Schreker in the processing of Prof. Werner Steinmetz. A project of EntArteOpera in the former tobacco factory in Linz, directed by Philipp Harnoncourt, equipment and organization of Susanne Thomas Berger.
On October 17, 2013, the ensemble has performed at the Theater an der Wien and brought Viktor Ullmann composed in the concentration camp game The Emperor of Atlantis for concert performance. It conducted Roberto Paternostro, it sang Çiğdem Soyarslan, Ann -Beth Solvang, Nikolay Borchev, Lars Woldt and Johannes Chum.
Conductors, soloists, choirs
The ICO has performed with numerous renowned soloists and conductors such as Mstislav Rostropovich, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Shlomo Mintz, Yefim Bronfman, Luciano Berio, Krzysztof Penderecki, Christoph Eschenbach, Nicholas Kraemer, Yoel Levi, Jean Pierre Rampal, Paul Tortelier, Heinrich Schiff, Heinz Holliger, Sergiu Commissiona, Claude Frank, Frieder Bernius, Michel Corboz, David Shallon, Tabea Zimmermann, Tamas Vasary, Salvatore Accardo, Martin Sieghart and Armin Jordan.
International Choirs with the Israel Chamber Orchestra occurred were, so far, the Vienna Boys Choir, the Tölz Boys Choir, the Prague Chamber Choir, The Brigham Young University Choir, the Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne, the Stuttgart Chamber Choir, the Gulbenkian Choir, The Netherlands Chamber Choir and other.
CD recordings
Recordings were made for the Chandos label, Music Masters, cooking, Teldec and Gramola.
Review
"The sound of the orchestra which enriched, strong but not aggressive or irritating. [ ... ] The driving playing of the orchestra led by the conductor Roberto Paternostro was remarkable. It Seems did interaction in between the Italian - Viennese conductor and the orchestra is very successful. [ ... ] In general, it what one of the best concerts of the Israel Chamber Orchestra in recent years. "