About the 7th International Red Sea Chamber Music Festival:
In the spot where the desert meets the sea and the red mountains give their shadow from above, in a meeting point between Asia and Africa, the greatest musicians from all over the world meet once a year to play music and give master-classes and workshops. Eilat, the southernmost city in Israel is Israel's leading tourist resort visited by hundred thousands of visitors every year.
Eilat
Chamber Music Festival was founded six years ago by Leonid Rozenberg,
who serves today as the artistic and general director of the festival.
In its five years of existence, the festival hosted the best
international and Israeli musicians, who gave exciting and surprising
performances to music from the time of Monteverdi and until the very
recent and contemporary musical compositions. Artists such as Maxim
Vengerov, Julian Rachlin, Franz Helmerson, Shlomo Mintz, Ruth Ziesak,
Maria Cristina Kiehr, Natalia Gutman, Ida Haendel; orchestras such as
Concerto Koln, Il Palpiti, Concergebau Chamber Orchestra, Mahler Chamber
Orchestra, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra; and ensembles such as Red
Priest, La Venexiana, Arditi Quartet, and Trio Wonderer, to name a few,
gave concerts and taught master-classes. Special guests of the festival
included Sir Roger Moore, author Amos Oz, the Italian actor Moni
Ovadiah, composer Giya Kancheli and others.
In its 6th year, the festival will take place between March 17th and 26th, 2011. The festival is proud to commence the European tour of Gabrieli Consort & Players with J. S. Bach's St. John Passion, conducted by Paul McCreesh with a brilliant team of Bach singers.
As always, the festival will host some of the world's greatest musicians, including the young generation of instrumentalists that are now the biggest stars in all of Europe's greatest stages. The artists list will include: Pieter Wispelwey, Chloe Hanslip, Dejan Lazic, Hagai Shaham, Maxim Rysanov, Anthony Pay, Tatjana Masurenko, Oxana Yablonskaya, Alexander Ivashkin, Elisabeh von Manus, Gemma Bergnoli and many others. Orchestras and ensembles will include Gabrieli Consort & Players, Die Kolner Akademi, iPalpiti, Jerusalem Quartet and others. An exciting team that will include some of the most sought after music professors from the leading international academies, will join the guest artists to give master-classes and workshops to some 120 students from all over the world. Those will include Dmitri Bashkirov and Edward Grach, to name a few. The festival will celebrate 200 years to Liszt, 150 years to Gustav Mahler and Anton Arensky, 100 years to the birth of Nino Rota, Bach's birthday on March 21st and will offer outdoor concerts, and special activities among them amateur musicians' master-classes.
A new feature at the Festival: collaboration with the Keshet Eilon Music Center.
The Center, based in Kibbutz Eilon, nurtures talented young violinists
from Israel and all parts of the world who attend its international
Mastercourse each summer, joined by violists and cellists. Keshet Eilon
also holds seminars for Israeli violin students and teachers,
reinforcing violin playing in the country. The Keshet Eilon 2011 Spring
Seminar will be part of the Eilat Festival. Faculty who will give
string masterclasses and performances include violinists Itzhak
Rashkovsky, Ani Schnarch, Hagai Shaham, Edward Grach, Cihat Askin, Mila
Feldman, and cellist Hillel Zori. Most will also teach at the 2011
Spring Seminar.
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