DANIEL GORTLER - Piano
Israeli pianist Daniel Gortler
is attracting the attention of audiences worldwide.
Gortler started his piano studies with Naomi Hacohen,
and graduated from the Tel Aviv Music Academy and later
from the Musikhochschule in Hannover, where he studied
with Professor Arie Verdi. In addition he has taken
classes with Mr. Christoph Eschenbach.
Gortler has appeared as soloist
with many major orchestras including the Berlin Radio
Symphony, the Bavarian Radio Symphony, the NDR Symphony,
the North west German Philharmonic, Orchestra Suisse
Romande, the Houston Symphony, the New World Symphony,
the San Francisco Symphony, the Atlanta Symphony, the
San Jose Symphony and most major Israeli orchestras
including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
A few years ago he replaced, at
very short notice, Murray Perahia performing the Schumann
piano concerto with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
under Valery Gergiev.
Gortler has performed with conductors
such as Zubin Mehta, Christoph Eschenbach, Michael Tilson
Thomas, Yoel Levi, Franz Welser-Most, Manfred Honek,
Mendi Rodan, Yuri Ahronovich, Leonid Grin and Justus
Frantz. He has appeared at the Houston Summer Festival,
the Israel Festival, the Montpellier, Luzern, Schleswig-Holstein
Music Festivals, and more. Gortler has recently participated
in the video recording of Mark Neikrug's "Through
Roses" together with Pinchas Zukerman.
Gortler is also an active chamber
music performer and recitalist and in 1998 he made his
New York recital debut at the 92Y, with the complete
cycle of the Mendelsshon Songs without Words which he
recorded last year.
Daniel Gortler has won many competitions
including the first prize in the Vina del Mar International
Competition in Chile (1987), the Bremen International
Piano Competition (1991), second prize in the Munich
International Piano Competition and at the age of 19
the third prize in the Geneva International Piano Competition.
He has also won the Clairmont Competition, (1984-86),
the Gina Bachauer Award in Jerusalem (1989), Salon de
Virtuoso annual award in NY, and he is a recipient of
the America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarships
between 1977-1989.
Daniel Gortler also teaches at
the Tel Aviv Music Academy.
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