Guests at the Centre
Workshop for violinists and chamber ensembles with Shmuel Ashkenasi (USA) 

Monday 22.2.10 through Thursday 25.2.10, 10:00 am-1:00 pm; 4:30 pm-6:30 pm (on Tuesday morning session only). 

Shmuel Ashkenasi was born in Tel Aviv and studied with Ilona Fehr. At young age he moved to the USA to continue his studies at the Curtis Institute of Music. Ashkenasi won prizes at the most signifcant violin competitions including Belgium's Queen Elisabeth and the Moscow Tchaikovsky competition. Ashkenazi has formed the Vermeer Quartet with whom he tours all over the world and continues to perform regularly as soloist with many of the leading orchestras in Europe and the USA.
Ashkenasi is a professor for violin and chamber music at Roosevelt University's Chicago College and the Curtis Institute of Music. 

Monday 22.2.2010 10am-1pm

Gabrielle Talroze - piano

Anat Pagis class of Sophie Pikovsky
Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen, op. 20

Eden Vered class of Nava Millo
Mozart: Sonata for violin and piano in G major, K. 301

Noa Sarid class of Nava Millo
Wieniawski: Scherzo-Tarantelle in G minor, op. 16

Avital Mazor class of Ilya Konovalov
Mozart: Violin Concerto no. 5 in A major, K. 219 (I)


Monday 22.2.2010 4:30pm-6:30pm

Gertler Quartet class of Avy Abramovich
Buchman-Mehta School of Music, Tel Aviv University
Ilya Fovant, Nitzan Caneti, Daniel Schwartz, Oded Hadar
Beethoven: String Quartet in C minor, op. 18 no. 4 (I)
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, op. 115

String Quartet of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance
Class of Avy Abramovich
Shachar Pooyae, Yonatan Grinberg, Netanel Pollak, Igor Tankevich
Schubert: String Quartet no. 14 in D minor, Death and the Maiden, D. 810


Tuesday 23.2.2010 10am-1pm

Oleg Yakerevich - piano

Tamar Grinshtein class of Michael Gaisler
Mozart/ Kreisler: Rondo in G major

Rinat Ehrlichman class of Michael Gaisler
Mendelssohn: Concerto in D minor (II, III)

Gal Eckstein class of Michael Gaisler
Khachaturian: Violin Concerto in D minor (II)

Daniel Eisenstadt class of Irena Svetlova
Ysaÿe: Sonata for violin solo, op. 27 no. 6


Wednsday 24.2.2010 10am-1pm

Gabrielle Talroze - piano

Barak Shosberger class of Michael Gaisler
Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole in D minor, op. 21 (II)

Sofia Kirsanova class of Michael Gaisler
Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, op. 61 (I)

Shachar Pooyae class of Michael Gaisler
Mozart: Violin Concerto no. 5 in A major, K. 219 (I)

Leah Korchemny class of Michael Gaisler
Shostakovich: Sonata for viola and piano in C major, op. 147 (I)


Wednesday 24.2.2010 4:30pm-6:30pm

Efrat Rosset class of Roy Shiloah
Ben-Haim: Sonata for violin solo

Yuval Herz class of Roy Shiloah
Schumann: Sonata no. 1 in A minor, op. 105

Netanel Pollak class of Mila Feldman
Brahms: Sonata for viola and piano in F minor, op. 120 no. 1 (I)


Thursday 25.2.2010 10am-1pm

Shlomi Shemtov – piano

Tomer Marcus class of Haim Taub
Prokofiev: Concerto no. 2 in G minor, op. 63 (I, II)

Ohad Cohen class of Nava Millo
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major, op. 35

Nehara Carmel class of Nava Millo
Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, op. 47 (I)

Ophir Shner class of Nava Millo
Beethoven: Sonata no. 8 in G major, op. 30 no. 3 (I)


Thursday 25.2.2010 4:30pm-6:30pm

Nir Rom class of Zvi Carmeli
Brahms: Sonata for viola and piano in E flat major, op. 120 no. 2 (I)

Maya Kadosh class of Yair Kless
Prokofiev: Concerto no. 2 in G minor, op. 63 (I)

Ori Weisner-Levi class of Mila Feldman
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major, op. 35 (I)