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.