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Hagai Shaham is an Israeli violin virtuoso. Born in 1966, he began studying the violin at the age of six and was the last student of the late Professor Ilona Feher.
As a soloist he has performed with many of the world's major orchestras, including the English Chamber Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Belgian National Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique Francais, Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra, SWF Baden-Baden Symphony Orchestra, Slovakian Philharmonic, and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under Zubin Mehta. In 1985 he was invited to join Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman in a gala concert at Carnegie Hall, following which Zubin Mehta invited him to perform Brahms' Double Concerto at Carnegie Hall.
He also performs as a recitalist and appears in chamber music performances. He regularly tours throughout Europe, and North and South America, performing at international recital series and festivals.
He has recorded on the Biddulph, Hyperion Records, Avie, Naxos Records, Talent, and more labels, music of Achron, Bloch, Brahms, Hubay, Grieg, Mozart, and more.
Hagai Shaham is on the faculty of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, and conducts master classes primarily in Israel and Europe. In 2007, he joined the music faculty at the renowned Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California.
In September 1990, Hagai Shaham and his duo partner Arnon Erez won the first prize at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich in the Violin-Piano duo category, the first competitors to be awarded this coveted first prize since 1971. His other awards include first prizes at the Ilona Kornhouser competition, the Israeli Broadcasting Authority Young Artist competition, The Tel-Aviv Rubin Academy competition, four Clairmont Awards, and annual scholarship from the American-Israel Cultural Foundation.
He is a co-founder of the Ilona Feher Foundation. Mezzo-soprano Rinat Shaham is his sister.
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Dono de técnica assombrosa e profunda personalidade musical, Hagai Shaham é internacionalmente reconhecido como um dos melhores jovens violinistas israelenses em anos recentes. Hagai Shaham começou a estudar violino aos 6 anos, com Ilona Feher. Estudou...
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Hagai Shaham
Hagai Shaham is an Israeli violin virtuoso. Born in 1966, he began studying the violin at the age of six and was the last student of the late Professor Ilona Feher.
As a soloist he has performed with many of the world's major orchestras, including the English Chamber Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Belgian National Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique Francais, Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra, SWF Baden-Baden Symphony Orchestra, Slovakian Philharmonic, and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under Zubin Mehta. In 1985 he was invited to join Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman in a gala concert at Carnegie Hall, following which Zubin Mehta invited him to perform Brahms' Double Concerto at Carnegie Hall.
He also performs as a recitalist and appears in chamber music performances. He regularly tours throughout Europe, and North and South America, performing at international recital series and festivals.
He has recorded on the Biddulph, Hyperion Records, Avie, Naxos Records, Talent, and more labels, music of Achron, Bloch, Brahms, Hubay, Grieg, Mozart, and more.
Hagai Shaham is on the faculty of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, and conducts master classes primarily in Israel and Europe. In 2007, he joined the music faculty at the renowned Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California.
In September 1990, Hagai Shaham and his duo partner Arnon Erez won the first prize at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich in the Violin-Piano duo category, the first competitors to be awarded this coveted first prize since 1971. His other awards include first prizes at the Ilona Kornhouser competition, the Israeli Broadcasting Authority Young Artist competition, The Tel-Aviv Rubin Academy competition, four Clairmont Awards, and annual scholarship from the American-Israel Cultural Foundation.
He is a co-founder of the Ilona Feher Foundation. Mezzo-soprano Rinat Shaham is his sister.
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János Starker (Hebrew: יאנוש סטארקר), (Hungarian: Starker János) July 5, 1924 – April 28, 2013, was a Hungarian-American cellist. From 1958 until his death, he taught at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where...
- Michael Rabin
Michael Rabin (May 2, 1936 – January 19, 1972) was an American virtuoso violinist of Romanian-Jewish descent. He began to learn the violin when he was seven. His father George, a violinist in the New York Philharmonic, noticed his talent. A lesson...
- Igor Oistrakh
April 27, 1931 - Odessa, Ukraine The Ukrainian violinist (and conductor), Igor (Davidovich) Oistrakh (Russian: Игорь Ойстрах), is the son of the great violinist David Oistrakh. As a small boy he was taught to play violin, but his studies were...
- Itzhak Perlman
Itzhak Perlman (born August 31, 1945) Is an Israeli-American violin virtuoso, conductor, and pedagogue. Perlman was born in Tel Aviv, where he first became interested in the violin when he heard a classical music performance on the radio. He studied...
- Hagai Shaham
Dono de técnica assombrosa e profunda personalidade musical, Hagai Shaham é internacionalmente reconhecido como um dos melhores jovens violinistas israelenses em anos recentes. Hagai Shaham começou a estudar violino aos 6 anos, com Ilona Feher. Estudou...