Silver-Garburg Piano Duo
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| Background information | |
| Born | Israel |
| Genres | Classical |
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| Instruments | Piano |
| Years active | 1998- |
| Website | silvergarburg |
Duo Silver-Garburg is an international piano duo founded by the Israeli pianists, Sivan Silver and Gil Garburg, playing classical music.
Biography[edit]
- Sivan Silver (born 1976) graduated with honors from the music department at the Thelma Yellin School of the Arts, and belonged to the Young Musicians Unit of the Jerusalem Music Center. She studied piano with Rina Weiss, Neima Rosh, Yahli Wagman and Arie Vardi, and theory and composition with Sergiu Natra and Yitzhak Sadai, at the Rubin Academy at Tel Aviv University (renamed, Buchmann-Mehta School of Music), and at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. Silver is the first prize winner in the Ben-Haim Competition (1993), in the Adriana Katz Competition at the Tel Aviv Academy of Music (1994), in the Clermont Competition (1996), in the Viotti-Valsesia International Competition, Italy (1997), In the YMFE competition, Germany (1999), and in the International Piano-Fabia Competition, Italy (1999).[1]
- Gil Garburg (born 1975) Studied at the Israeli Conservatory of Music in Tel Aviv , with Chava Armon and at the Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts, and graduated with honors. He has regularly won scholarships from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. He also studied composition with Professor Sergio Natra . Since 1993 he has been a student of Arie Vardi, first at the Rubin Academy at Tel Aviv University , and then at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. In 1996, he won first prize in the spring competitions of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, and the second prize in the international competition named after Porino in Italy. In 1997, he won third prize in the international competition in memory of Shostakovich in Germany. In 1998 he won first prize in IBLA International Competition[2]in 1999 he won the first prize at the Brahms International Competition in Hamburg. Gil has performed as a soloist with many orchestras and in recitals in Israel, Europe and the United States.[3]
- Silver-Garburg Duo. They founded the duo in 1997 while studying in Hanover, Germany..[4]. In 1998 they won first prize as a duo in the IBLA International Competition[2]
Musical career[edit]
The duo has performed in a variety of well-known halls, such as the Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center the Vienna Musikverein,the Großes Festspielhaus of Salzburg Festival the Sydney Opera House and Berliner Philharmonie. Since its inception, the duo has performed in nearly 70 countries on five continents.[5][6]
Silver-Garburg regularly collaborates with renowned orchestras such as the Israel Philharmonic, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Melbourne Symphony, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the German Chamber Orchestra, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra,[7] the North German Radio Orchestra, the Munich Chamber Orchestra and Stuttgarter Kammerorchester.[8]
Discography[edit]
The duo has released several CDs, which include, among others, Schubert's Fantasy in F minor, Debussy's En blanc et noir, Mozart's Concerto No. 10 for two pianos and orchestra with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Mendelssohn's original version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Stravinsky's adaptations of Petrushka ballet and The Rite of Spring, Mendelssohn’s concertos for two pianos and orchestra with the Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie, Brahms works with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.[9][10]
Personal life[edit]
The couple were born and raised in Israel. They currently live in Berlin with their son, and teach at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.[11]
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Sivan Silver". Habama. December 2005. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Ibla Grand Prize Laureates". IBLA Foundation. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
- ↑ "Gil Garburg". Habama. December 2005. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
- ↑ "Master Class for Pianist Duo with Sivan Silver and Gil Garburg". The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
- ↑ "Silver-Garburg Piano Duo". America-Israel Cultural Foundation. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
- ↑ Shepherd, Patrick (7 August 2017). "Elegance and energy from Silver Garburg Piano Duo and CSO". The Press.
- ↑ "Piano Duo Silver-Garburg". Berlin Classics. 4 April 2022. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
- ↑ "Schedule - Silver-Garburg". Silver-Garburg Piano Duo. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
- ↑ "Discography - Silver-Garburg". Silver-Garburg Piano Duo. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
- ↑ "Silver-Garburg Piano Duo". Berliner Symphoniker. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
- ↑ "Silver-Garburg Piano Duo". Silver-Garburg Piano Duo. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
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