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American concert violinist
Musical artist
Gil Shaham (Hebrew : גיל שחם; born February 19, 1971) is an American violinist of Jewish descent.
Biography [ edit ]
Gil Shaham was born in Urbana, Illinois , while his Israeli parents were on an academic fellowship at the University of Illinois . His father, Jacob, was an astrophysicist [1] Meira Diskin , was a cytogeneticist . His sister is the pianist Orli Shaham . His brother, Shai Shaham , is the head of the Laboratory of Developmental Genetics at Rockefeller University .[2]
Gil Shaham is a graduate of the Horace Mann School in New York. When he was two years old, the family moved to Jerusalem , where he started violin lessons at the Rubin Academy of Music aged seven, winning annual scholarships from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation .[3] Aspen Music Festival and School in Colorado, studying with Dorothy DeLay and Jens Ellermann ,[3] Juilliard School . He and his sister Orli also studied at Columbia University .[3]
Shaham lives in New York City and teaches at Bard College Conservatory of Music . He is married to violinist Adele Anthony . They have three children.[3]
Music career [ edit ]
Shaham debuted as a soloist with the Jerusalem Symphony at age 10. He performed with the Israel Philharmonic —Israel's foremost orchestra—less than a year later. Shaham won first prize in the Claremont Competition at age 11, and was admitted to Juilliard, where he studied with Dorothy DeLay and Hyo Kang .
Shaham's career advanced in 1989 when, while a senior at Horace Mann, he replaced an ailing Itzhak Perlman to perform the Bruch and Sibelius violin concertos with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall .[4]
Shaham won the Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1990, and the Premio Internazionale of the Accademia Chigiana in Siena in 1992.
Shaham has performed with the New York Philharmonic , Berlin Philharmonic , Toronto Symphony Orchestra , Vienna Philharmonic , Israel Philharmonic Orchestra , Chicago Symphony Orchestra , Boston Symphony Orchestra , Los Angeles Philharmonic , Russian National Orchestra , Academy of St. Martin in the Fields , San Francisco Symphony Orchestra , Philadelphia Orchestra , National Symphony Orchestra and National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America .
Shaham has played the "Comtesse de Polignac", a Stradivarius violin of 1699 on loan from the Stradivarius Society of Chicago since 1989.
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References [ edit ]
^ a b c d e "Gil Shaham Biography" . Gilshaham.com . Retrieved January 22, 2017 .
^ Hanani, Hannah (May 14, 1989). "The Gil Shaham Story: A Star Is Born, Maybe : Violinist, 18, replaces an ailing Itzhak Perlman" . Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2023-11-15 .
^ a b c Rooney, Dennis D. "Instrumentalist of the Year 2012" . Musical America . Retrieved January 22, 2017 .
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a d d i t i o n a l t e r m s m a y a p p l y . B y u s i n g t h i s s i t e , y o u a g r e e t o t h e T e r m s o f U s e a n d P r i v a c y P o l i c y . W i k i p e d i a ® i s a r e g i s t e r e d t r a d e m a r k o f t h e W i k i m e d i a F o u n d a t i o n , I n c . , a n o n - p r o f i t o r g a n i z a t i o n . ● P r i v a c y p o l i c y ● A b o u t W i k i p e d i a ● D i s c l a i m e r s ● C o n t a c t W i k i p e d i a ● C o d e o f C o n d u c t ● D e v e l o p e r s ● S t a t i s t i c s ● C o o k i e s t a t e m e n t ● M o b i l e v i e w
You may hear Gil Shaham with Goran Sollscher performing works by Niccolo Paganini in 1992 
