MORDECHAI RECHTMAN: Bassoon/Conductor
Principal bassoonist of the Israel
Philharmonic Orchestra (1946-1991), Mr. Rechtman has
won international acclaim as bassoonist, arranger and
conductor. He started his musical career at the age
of 15 playing principal bassoon with the Palestine Opera
(now Israel), and was awarded first prize at the youth
festival competition in Prague. He appeared as soloist
frequently with the IPO and many other orchestras
abroad, and at such prestigious festivals as Tanglewood,
Spoleto, Marlboro, and the Puerto Rico Casals Festival.
His arrangements for wind quintet, wind instruments
and large wind ensembles are performed throughout the
world, published, and recorded in the United States,
England, Denmark, Germany, and Austria. In 1963 he founded
the Israel Woodwind Quintet, and the Israel Philharmonic
Wind Ensemble, of which he is music director and conductor
since 1976. Since 1985 he is also the music director
and conductor of the Israel Chamber Orchestra Wind Ensemble.
From 1977-78 he was a guest professor at the famed Indiana
University Music School, and from 1969 to the present
he is professor of music at the Rubin Academy of Tel-Aviv
University. As guest professor he teaches bassoon, coaches
chamber music, and conducts large wind ensembles and
orchestras at the New England Conservatory, The Juilliard
School of Music, the Royal Academy of Music, as well
as other locations in Canada, Mexico, Australia and
throughout Europe. In August 1994, Mordechai Rechtman
was unanimously elected Honorary Membership of the IDRS.
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