Shai shaham
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Michael Shaham
2024
Chamber Music Connects the World, junior
2024
Kronberg Academy Master with Mihaela Martin, funded by the Beethoven patronage
Michael Shaham was born in 2003 into a family deeply rooted in classical music. His father, Hagai Shaham, is a skilled violinist and Michael’s own talent became apparent during his early years. At the age of ten, he won scholarships with distinction from both the America-Israel Cultural Foundation and the Jerusalem Music Centre, which would lay the foundations for his musical pathway.
Michael’s career as a violin soloist has brought him appearances with numerous orchestras including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, the National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Israel Symphony Orchestra, Israel Camerata Jerusalem, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Haifa Symphony Orchestra, Raanana Symphonette and the Israel Netanya Kibbutz Orchestra.
In 2022, Michael won first prize at the isaChallenge competition in Austria followed by second prize at the Fr
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Gil Shaham
American concert violinist
Musical artist
Gil Shaham (Hebrew: גיל שחם; born February 19, 1971) is an American violinist. His accolades include a Grammy Award in 1999, and he has performed as a soloist with such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Russian National Orchestra, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestre de Paris.
Biography
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] and his mother, 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]
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
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Orli Shaham
Israeli-American pianist
Orli Shaham | |
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| Born | (1975-11-05) 5 November 1975 (age 49) Jerusalem, Israel |
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| Occupation | Pianist |
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Orli Shaham (Hebrew: אוֹרלי שחם; born 5 November 1975) is an American pianist, born in Jerusalem, Israel, the daughter of scientists Meira Shaham (née Diskin) and Jacob Shaham.[1] Her brothers are the violinist Gil Shaham and Shai Shaham, who is the head of the Laboratory of Developmental Genetics at Rockefeller University.[2]
She is a graduate of the Horace Mann School in Riverdale, New York, and of Columbia University. She also studied at the Juilliard School, beginning in its Pre-college Division and continuing while a student at Columbia.
Orli Shaham performs recitals and appears with major orchestras throughout the world. She was awarded the Gilmore Young Artist Award in 1995 and the Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1997. Her appearances with orchestras include the Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Chicago Symphony O
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