Podcast appearances and mentions of Avi Avital

The first mandolin soloist to be nominated for a classical Grammy, Avi Avital's remarkable virtuosity from Baroque masterpieces to contemporary compositions has reignited fascination with the mandolin as an instrument worthy of center stage. Avi discusses the intuitive nature of a plucked instrument and how it still excites him to this day, why he finds boredom a blessing, and how his poor pick grip is recognizable by a select group of mandolinists. Reflecting on his childhood performances with his local youth orchestra, Avi shares how the social aspect kept him playing despite his hatred for the tedious and solitary nature of practice, something he still feels to this day despite his talent and success. Avi considers two turning points in his musical development, the first while in high school when he fell in love with the rock music of Nirvana and Pearl Jam and learned how to play drums, keyboard, and guitar, and the second while attending a performance of Il Giardino Armonico at a Jerusalem theater while studying at The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. To close it out David admits that if he hears the mandolin in Mozart's Don Giovanni, he's in trouble!Check out Avi Avital on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music, or the web.Follow Speaking Soundly on Instagram.Follow David on Instagram.You can find out more about Artful Narratives Media on Instagram and the web.Photograph of Avi Avital by Christoph Köstlin.The Speaking Soundly theme song is composed by Joseph Saba/Stewart Winter and used by permission of Videohelper.Speaking Soundly was co-created by David Krauss and Jessica Handelman. This interview has been edited and condensed to fit the time format.Episode copyright © 2024 Artful Narratives Media. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“This is how I want to make music!” That was Avi Avital's reaction when he first saw Il Giardino Armonico and Giovanni Antonini play live in Jerusalem. Now famed worldwide for his own charismatic and passionate performances, the mandolinist is delighted to be joined by this exciting period-instrument ensemble and its conductor and co-founder on his latest album, entitled simply Concertos. Together they perform three original concertos for mandolin – by Barbella, Paisiello and Hummel – and Avital's own adaptations of concertos by J.S. Bach and Vivaldi. Antonini is the recorder soloist in the Bach, while elaborate recording techniques allow Avital to play all four parts in the Vivaldi. Concertos is set for release by Deutsche Grammophon on 17 November. The Vivaldi concerto and the Andantino of the Barbella are available to stream or download now, while excerpts from the Paisiello and Hummel works will be released on 29 September and 27 October respectively.Track Listing:1 VIVALDI: Concerto for 4 Mandolins, Strings and Basso continuo in B minor /Allegro2 Largo – Larghetto – Adagio – Largo3 Allegro 4 BACH: Concerto for Mandolin, Recorder, Strings and Basso continuo in D minor/ Allegro5 Adagio6 Allegro 7 BARBELLA:Concerto for Mandolin, Strings and Basso continuo in D major 1. Allegro8 Andantino9 Giga. Allegro10 PAISIELLO: Concerto for Mandolin, Strings and Basso continuo in E flat major / Allegro11 Larghetto grazioso12 Giga. Allegro 13 HUMMEL: Concerto for Mandolin and Orchestra in G major / Allegro moderato e grazioso14 Andante con variazioni15 RondoClassical Music Discoveries is sponsored by Uber. @CMDHedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber#AppleClassical Please consider supporting our show, thank you!Donate (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com This album is broadcast with the permission of Crossover Media Music Promotion (Zachary Swanson and Amanda Bloom).

Jess Gillam and cellist Matthew Barley sit down to listen together to the music they love. Matthew's career as a cellist has seen him straddle any number of different genres and continents. He's just as at home in front of an orchestra as he is improvising in a nightclub, playing chamber music with his wife – the violinist Viktoria Mullova - or going solo and combining his cello with electronics. Their playlist today is suitably eclectic - Matthew brings a taste of Brazil from the singer Elza Soares and legendary songwriter Jobim, a lament on the duduk and reminisces his first childhood experience of classical music via the music of Beethoven. Jess has Tchaikovsky ballet music bursting with tunes, some sunshine by Marianna Martines and mandolin player Avi Avital and a beautiful piece of Junk by Paul McCartney. Playlist: ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM: Agua de Beber [Gonzalo Rubalcaba (piano)] TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake – Act 4 finale [London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn (conductor)] ELZA SOARES: Flores Horizontais MANUEL DE FALLA: No. 4 Jota from Canciones populares españolas [Avi Avital (mandolin)] DJIVAN GASPARYAN: 7 December 1988 [Djivan Gasparyan (duduk/voice)] MARIANNA MARTINES: Overture in C major – 1st mvt [La Floridiana] PAUL MCARTNEY: Junk BEETHOVEN: Symphony no 6 (Pastoral) – 1st mvt “Erwachen heiterer…” [Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Paavo Jarvi (conductor)]

“This is how I want to make music!” That was Avi Avital's reaction when he first saw Il Giardino Armonico and Giovanni Antonini play live in Jerusalem. Now famed worldwide for his own charismatic and passionate performances, the mandolinist is delighted to be joined by this exciting period-instrument ensemble and its conductor and co-founder on his latest album, entitled simply, Concertos. Together they perform three original concertos for mandolin – by Barbella, Paisiello, and Hummel – and Avital's own adaptations of concertos by J.S. Bach and Vivaldi. Antonini is the recorder soloist in the Bach, while the latest technology allows Avital to play all four parts in the Vivaldi. Concertos is set for release by Deutsche Grammophon on 17 November. The Vivaldi concerto and the Andantino of the Barbella are available to stream or download now, while excerpts from the Paisiello and Hummel works will be released on 29 September and 27 October respectively.Track Listing:1 Concerto in B Minor, RV 580 / I. Allegro2 II. Largo3 III. AllegroHelp support our show by purchasing this album  at:Downloads (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by Uber and Apple Classical. @CMDHedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber#AppleClassical Please consider supporting our show, thank you!Donate (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com This album is broadcasted with the permission of Crossover Media Music Promotion (Zachary Swanson and Amanda Bloom).

The mandolin is 2023's instrument of the year in Germany. The little stringed instrument isn't always taken so seriously. But Israeli musician Avi Avital shows what an impression it can make in an orchestra.

Das Thema beim diesjährigen Bodenseefestival lautet „über Grenzen“. Zur Auswahl stehen über 70 Veranstaltungen an 25 Orten mit Musik, Theater, Tanz und Literatur

El kinnor es un instrumento musical israelita, que por miles de años ha hecho parte de la cultura e historia del pueblo hebreo. Luce como un tipo de arpa o lira pequeña, que se toca con una sola mano. Sus cuerdas descansan sobre un puente móvil, apoyado en una caja de resonancia. El Kinnor está elaborado originalmente de madera, con 10 o 12 cuerdas hechas de tripa de animal o fibras vegetales, y refleja un sonido dulce y suave. A lo largo del tiempo se han creado variantes con mayor o menor número de cuerdas, modificando su sonido. En La biblia se menciona en varias momentos: Cuando Miriam, la hermana de Moisés, dirigió a las mujeres en danza y un canto de alabanza después de cruzar el Mar Rojo. También cuando el rey Saul estaba afligido y David tocaba para que encontrara alivio. Así mismo, en el libro de los Salmos cuando se insta a alabar al señor con arpa, salterio y danza. Existen registros que datan de la época del Segundo Templo en Jerusalén, que demuestran que el Kinnor acompañaba reuniones religiosas y amenizaba festejos en la corte de los reyes israelitas. Grandes exponentes de la música judía y de medio oriente, como:  Yair Dalal, Elad Vaknin, Avi Avital y Eyal Sela, lo han combinado con elementos de la música árabe, la música clásica, el klezmer, el rock y otros géneros contemporáneos. El kinnor emite un sonido que provoca alegría, y es también llamado: el arpa de David.

Unsere Themen heute: Winterwerft. Das internationale Theaterfestival im Frankfurter Osten / Instrument des Jahres: Was Avi Avital so alles aus einer Mandoline herausholt / Violinen der Hoffnung: wie in Tel Aviv Geigen von Holocaust-Überlebenden ein neues Zuhause bekommen / Von wegen "Erworben": Wie die Stadt Frankfurt in der Nazi-Zeit an die Sammlung Goldschmidt-Rothschild kam / "Close" - die berührende Geschichte einer Jungs-Freundschaft kommt ins Kino.

With his unparalleled virtuosity and contagious charisma, Israeli mandolinist Avi Avital has played the biggest concert halls around the world, from Wigmore Hall in London to Carnegie Hall in New York City. He's been credited with putting the mandolin back on the world map of classical music, as well as jazz and even folk. He tells FRANCE 24's Florence Villeminot why the string instrument has been overlooked and what he's doing to put it back in the spotlight.

To paraphrase The New York Times – the words “superstar” and “mandolinist” have not traditionally been seen together in the same sentence. However that has changed thanks to Avi Avital. He's the first mandolin soloist to be nominated for a classical Grammy Award and is a driving force behind the reinvigoration of the mandolin repertoire. Over 100 compositions have been written especially for him, including 15 concertos. He's played in all corners of the world, and has released 5 albums plus an EP on the Deutsche Grammophon label. Avi talks about his remarkable journey with the mandolin, from his early lessons in southern Israel from a teacher who was self-taught on the instrument, to having the chutzpah to dig into his own savings to record his first album in Berlin. He introduces a number of works that he especially wanted to share for this conversation, including a performance from one of his mentors, which is not available in Australia. He is currently touring Australia with Musica Viva. Photo: Guy Hecht

durée : 01:47:05 - Été Classique Après-midi du mardi 09 août 2022 - par : Julien Hanck - Le rendez-vous des collectionneurs et autres amoureux du disque, cet après-midi transcriptions, arrangements et adaptations sont au programme, portés par des artistes aussi rayonnants que Avi Avital, Pekka Kuusisto, Hiromi ou encore Christian Tetzlaff. - réalisé par : Fanny Constans

durée : 01:58:09 - Le Bach du dimanche du dimanche 07 août 2022 - par : Corinne Schneider - Une nouvelle programmation avec de la mandoline (Chris Thile et Avi Avital), du banjo (Bela Fleck), de l'orgue (Lorenzo Ghielmi et Bart Jacobs) ; l'« Ode pour Sainte-Cécile » (1739) de Haendel ; puis « Johann Ludwig Bach, le Bach de Meiningen » (émission n° 210 première diffusion le 29 mai 2022) - réalisé par : Emmanuel Benito

Jess's guest this week is the guitarist and composer Laura Snowden. They meet in the TCL studio for a listening party which revels in the beauty of John Tavener's choral music; unwraps a piece for guitar by the Australian composer and synesthete Phillip Houghton during which explores the range of sounds possible to obtain from the instrument; pauses in the sound world of Laurie Anderson, and follows Berlioz's musical journey into psychedelia. Playlist: John Tavener: The Lamb (Tenebrae, Nigel Short, conductor) Burt Bacharach/Hal David: I say a little prayer (Aretha Franklin) Lauryn Hill: Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (Lauryn Hill) Buxton/Ratcliffe/Kekaula: Good Luck (Basement Jaxx, Lisa Kekaula) Laurie Anderson: O Superman (Laurie Anderson) Trad (Bulgarian): Bučimiš (Avi Avital, mandolin, Itamar Doari, percussion) Phillip Houghton: Wave Radiance (Los Angeles Guitar Quartet) Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14 - V Dream of a witches' Sabbath (Orchestre de Paris, Charles Munch, conductor)

Avi Avital e l'Orchestra della Svizzera italiana – In concert cun ovras da Bach, Bartók e Vivaldi. La fin da matg – teater Cuira – ina saira cun musica extraordinaria da Vivaldi, Verdi e Bach. Sunà han il Zürcher Kammerorchester ed il solist Avi Avital, musicist israelian. El è l'interpret il pli enconuschent da la mandolina, in instrument ch'è stà fitg popular en la musica dal baroc. Pli tard è ella lura ida en emblidanza e dapi in pèr onns daventa ella puspè interessanta. Perquai proponin nus in concert ch'il radio da la Svizzera italiana ha registrà avant dus onns en ses auditori a Lugano. Cun Avi Avital e l'Orchestra della Svizzera italiana e cun ovras da Johann Sebastian Bach, Béla Bartók ed Antonio Vivaldi.

Mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital and jazz bassist Omer Avital join Haley Taylor for a conversation about their high-powered collaborative album Avital Meets Avital, which brings together their two musical worlds with an emphasis on Middle Eastern folk traditions.

Grammy-nominated mandolinist Avi Avital joins us to preview his album Between Worlds - a genre-defying tour of the globe exploring the nexus between classical, popular and traditional music.

Várdai István és Baráti Kristóf művészeti vezetésével augusztus 13 és 19 között, újra egyhetes formában jelentkezik az ország és a régió legjelentősebb komolyzenei fesztiválja, a Kaposfest.  Az idei évben is számíthatnak a nézők a már ismert és visszatérő művészekre, viszont először áll színpadra Avi Avital, a világ legismertebb mandolinművésze és először játszik Magyarországon Ksenija Sidorova világhírű harmonikaművész is. Baráti Kristóf művészeti vezetővel Kalmár András beszélgetett. 

AsabiDJ 27.04.2021 Programi:“Nutbush City Limits (Glee Cast Version)”  ― Glee Cast“Pourquoi cette pluie?”  ― Idir“Shoppin' for Clothes”  ― The Coasters“Tcheren Deya”  ― Mathias Duplessy“Egyptian Ella”  ― Fatima Spar Und Die Freedom Fries“Dancing In The Dark”  ― Amy Macdonald“Canción del Rey”  ― Gitkin“The Good, the Bad, the Ugly”  ― Mathias Duplessy, The Violins of the World“Ana Maghrebi”  ― Avi Avital, Omer Avital, Yonathan Avishai, Itamar Doari“In The Forest”  ― Warsaw Village Band“Proud Mary”  ― Tina Turner"For What It's Worth?" - Dawn Landes“In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)”  ― Zager & Evans“See See Rider”  ― Eric Burdon“The Letter”  ― The Box Tops“Keep on Rockin' - Remastered”  ― Alvin Lee“Tobacco Road”  ― Eric Burdon, War“Along Came Jones”  ― Blue Suede Daddys“Yakety Yak”  ― Blue Suede Daddys“King Creole”  ― Blue Suede Daddys“Tintarella Di Luna”  ― Hetty and the Jazzato Band“Bad Water”  ― AronChupa, J & The People“You Can't Break My Heart”  ― Kat Edmonson“Donbaledar”  ― Ehsan Daryadel“Little Drop Of Poison”  ― Rebekka Bakken“In Bocca Al Luppo”  ― Wendy McNeill“Nashod”  ― Amin Bani, Farnaz Maleki“Mreyte Ya Mreyte”  ― Khaled Mouzanar

New Classical Tracks: Avi Avital

For our first episode, we have met with Avi Avital, an Israeli mandolinist who has been a pioneer for his instrument. The 42-year-old spoke at his Berlin apartment about profiting from the time under lockdown while also reflecting on how his career has built up to his latest album on Deutsche Grammophon, the first in his catalogue to include repertoire explicitly written for the mandolin.  Show Notes:  *1:40 – pressing the reset button and learning to make the most out of lockdown.    *4:31 – investing in quality and self-development as an artist.   *6:32 – [musical excerpt: Paul Ben-Haim's “Sonata a tre”] reflections on forging an international career as a solo mandolinist.   *11:15 – [musical excerpt: Domenico Scarlatti's “Sonata in D minor,” K 89] choosingrepertoire for the latest Deutsche Grammophon album.   *13:35 – repercussions of the pandemic for emerging artists and the music industry at large. Excerpts from “Avi Avital. Art of the Mandolin” provided courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon.  Intro and Outro composed and performed by Miguel Kertsman.  Produced by Horizon Arts.

For the last episode of 2020, Hilary interviewed mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital.Avi has a new album out - 'Art of the Mandolin' - which feature music composed specifically for the instrument. There are some stunning performances and this is a great album to end 2020 with. Avi was the first mandolin soloist to be nominated for a classical Grammy, and you can hear why for yourself.To find out more about Avi, click here.Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/HWpodcast)

Avital meets Avital è un album di incontro musicale tra il mandolinista Avi Avital e il contrabbassista e suonatore di oud Omer Avital. Il gioco dell'omonimia del cognome diviene occasione per un discorso che parte da una radice comune ai due musicisti, ossia il luogo d'origine, Israele, da cui prendono strade differenti. Classico e jazz s'incontrano, così come due strumenti di per sé contrapposti per sonorità: acuto il mandolino, grave il contrabbasso; unico elemento unificante diviene il legno, stagionato e antico. Fanno da cornice il pianoforte di Yonathan Avishai e le percussioni di Itamar Doari, che amalgamano i suoni, creano un tappeto sonoro fluttuante e armonioso.Ascolta la nota di Claudio Zonta S.I., dalla newsletter de "La Civiltà Cattolica", Abitare nella possibilità.

Avi Avital beherrscht die klanglichen Facetten seines Instruments auf allerhöchstem Niveau, immer souverän, immer überzeugend.

Avi Avital., the world's leading mandolin player, on his new album The Art of the Mandolin, in which he performs music specially written for the instrument by Vivaldi, Beethoven and Scarlatti through to contemporary composers David Bruce and Giovanni Sollima. Yesterday the Government announced which areas of England will be in Tiers 1, 2 or 3. For theatres and live performance venues in Tier 3 it's disappointing news as they will have to remain closed. What will be possible in Tier 2? Matt Hemley of The Stage joins us to look at the picture across the nation including Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and we hear from Chris Stafford of the Curve Theatre in Leicester. Marina Abramović, the celebrated performance artist, discusses her takeover of a whole evening of Sky Arts next weekend. The five-hour series of programmes she’s curating and directing will delve into a hundred years of performance art, and guest Jarvis Cocker will explore meditation according to the ‘Abramović Method’. Possessor is a sci-fi psychological horror film written and directed by Brandon Cronenberg, son of visionary film-maker David Cronenberg, starring Andrea Riseborough. Film critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and crime novelist Abir Mukherjee review. Presenter: Kirsty Lang Producer: Sarah Johnson Studio Manager: Matilda Macari Main image: Avi Avital Image credit: Christoph Kostlin

How do you become a world-class mandolin player? Avi Avital introduces both the listeners and Deutsche Grammophon podcast host and French horn player Sarah Willis to the world of the mandolin. The Israeli musician presents his recent album “Art of the Mandolin”, offering a guided tour of the instrument’s rich history and a star performer’s personal selection of some of its greatest compositions. The podcast episode ends with a charming duet by Avi and Sarah.

Chaque samedi, Laure Dautriche nous fait (re)découvrir un morceau qui a marqué l'histoire de la musique classique. A l'occasion de la sortie du nouvel album de l'artiste israélien Avi Avital, elle nous parle aujourd'hui d'un instrument : la mandoline.

Mit acht Jahren hat Avi Avital die Mandoline entdeckt: ein Nachbar hatte gespielt - und das hat ihm gefallen. Jetzt ist Avi Avital 42 und einer der besten Mandolinisten der Welt. Oft muss er sich Musik für sein Instrument "ausleihen", denn das Originalrepertoire ist nicht sehr groß. Bei seiner neuen CD, die am 13. November erscheint, ist das anders.

Avi Avital hat die Mandoline mit seiner Begeisterung und seiner Virtuosität in die großen Konzertsäle gebracht. Schubladen braucht der kreative Künstler dabei nicht - er liebt es, verschiedenen Genres zu erkunden, spielt Bach und Vivaldi ebenso virtuos wie Klezmer, Tango oder Jazz und wird für seine elektrisierenden, grenzüberschreitenden Interpretationen inzwischen weltweit gefeiert.

Being in a quartet is like being in a marriage, says Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, violist and founding member of the world renowned award-winning Dover Quartet & our guest for Episode 5 of the So This Is My Why Podcast. Holding dual citizenship in the US and the Netherlands, Milena considers herself to have grown up “a little bit of everywhere” including in Oxford (UK), Baltimore and Jacksonville. Her father taught her the piano before, feeling fed up with the instrument, she chose the violin as her next musical endeavour. An instrument she picked up after hearing a musician busk on the streets of Oxford. At the age of 10 years old, having moved back to Jacksonville by then, she picked up the trombone and also (eagerly!) volunteered to play the viola when her younger brother wanted to form a quartet. We explore all that including a pivotal moment in the summer of 2005, where she met and learned from Michael Klotz, violist of Amernet Quartet & her first viola teacher, at the Bowdoin International Music Festival. A meeting that resulted in her “ sudden immersion in the viola world ”. *Curtis Institute of Music* We also discuss the considerations she had in place when applying for music schools and how she dropped all other applications the moment she got into her dream school - the Curtis Institute of Music! There, she studied with the likes of Michael Tree (of the Guarneri Quartet) & Roberto Diaz (President & CEO of the Curtis Institute of Music). It was also at Curtis that the members of what would be the Dover Quartet came together - not unlike the tentative start of a budding relationship! They bonded so well, one of their teachers, Shmuel Ashkenasi (Vermeer Quartet) asked them, “Have you considered getting married (to each other)?” because you're always together. To which Milena said: We could not have been more giddy than when he said that to us because we had looked up to him so much and he notoriously is one of the most demanding coaches we've ever had. And so to get that kind of encouragement from someone we looked up to… I think that definitely had a huge thing to do with our morale and decision to be kind of brave enough to commit to one another. From there, they decided to show “commitment” to each other by attending the graduate residency program at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music as a quartet. *Realities of Life As a String Quartet Member* The life of a string quartet member is so very unique & some of the things we explore include: * What is your schedule like as a string quartet? How often are you on the road? * What was it like participating in competitions (e.g. Fischoff Competition) and in particular, your memories of those incredible wins at the Banff Competition 2013 which launched the Dover Quartet into the spotlight? * Importance of competitions to the careers of string quartets * Ways of dealing with disagreements between quartet members, particularly in musical interpretations of pieces * Managing personal space while on the road; * Staying in touch with loved ones while on the road * Collaborations with other musicians & how that comes about * Giving live performances versus making studio recordings; * The role of social media & the power of collaborations - e.g. with Avi Avital, Edgar Meyer, Ray Chen, Roomful of Teeth & the Brooklyn Duo; * The Importance of public speaking as a means of connecting with the audience; * Dealing with concert reviews * Giving back to the community through Music For Food ( https://musicforfood.net/index.php/artist/dover-quartet/ ) ; and * “Balancing” a solo career with being in a quartet. *String Instruments* As the instrument itself is so important to a musician, we talk about: * The two violas she plays on & their different purposes * Modern v old instruments - which is better? Does it even matter? * How do you choose your violin? * Are violins with an unknown maker a good investment? * Impact of COVID-19 on her personal life & the life of the Dover Quartet *Role of Parents in a Child's Education* For parents with young kids or those thinking of pursuing music, we also deal with questions on: * Should all children be exposed to music / have music lessons? * How should parents handle children who don't want to practice, especially if they want to just quit after trying it for a short while? * At what age should a child learn a musical instrument? * What should people looking to pursue music think about & do? *Show notes:* https://www.sothisismywhy.com/5/ ** *Official Bio of the Dover Quartet* The phenomenal Dover Quartet catapulted to international stardom following a stunning sweep of the 2013 Banff Competition, at which they won every prize. Named the Cleveland Quartet Award-winner, and honored with the coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant, the Dover has become one of the most in-demand ensembles in the world. The Quartet's rise from up-and-coming young ensemble to occupying a spot at the top of their field has been “practically meteoric” ( Strings ). With its burnished warmth, incisive rhythms, and natural phrasing, the Quartet's distinctive sound has helped confirm its status as “the young American string quartet of the moment” ( New Yorker ). The Quartet serves as the quartet-in-residence for the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University, Chamber Music Northwest, Artosphere, the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival, and Peoples' Symphony in New York, and was recently named the first-ever quartet-in-residence for the Kennedy Center. In 2018-19 the Dover Quartet performs more than a hundred concerts around North America, including performances at the Kennedy Center, San Francisco Performances, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Spivey Hall, Boston's Celebrity Series, the Chamber Music Society of Detroit, and Carnegie Hall. In addition, the Dover's season features tours of Hong Kong, Europe, and Australia, collaborations with Emanuel Ax, Inon Barnatan, Peter Serkin, Anthony McGill, and Roomful of Teeth, and premieres of new works by Caroline Shaw and Matan Porat. The Quartet was thrilled to be invited by the maverick filmmaker and cultural icon David Lynch to be featured at his Los Angeles Festival of Disruption. Cedille Records released the Quartet's sophomore album, entitled Voices of Defiance: 1943, 1944, 1945 in October 2017. The recording takes listeners on a powerful journey through works written during World War II by Viktor Ullmann, Dimitri Shostakovich, and Simon Laks. The 2016-17 season saw the release of its all-Mozart debut recording on the Cedille label, a nod to the 1965 debut album of the Guarneri Quartet, whose founding violist, the late Michael Tree, joined the Dover Quartet on the recording. In addition, the group has participated in three complete Beethoven quartet cycles, including the University at Buffalo's famous “Slee Cycle” – which has presented annual Beethoven quartet cycles since 1955 and has featured the likes of the Budapest, Guarneri, and Cleveland Quartets – and will record the cycle over the next three seasons. The group's world-class collaborators have included pianists Anne-Marie McDermott, Emanuel Ax, Marc-André Hamelin, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Peter Serkin, and Jon Kimura Parker; violists Roberto Díaz and Cynthia Phelps; bassist Edgar Meyer; and the Pacifica and Escher Quartets. In the spring of 2016, the Dover Quartet was recognized with the Hunt Family Award, one of the inaugural Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Awards, and in past years has taken top prizes at the Fischoff Competition and the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition. All four Quartet members are consummate solo artists: first violinist Joel Link took first prize at the Menuhin Competition; violinist Bryan Lee and violist Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt have appeared as soloists with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Tokyo Philharmonic, respectively; and cellist Camden Shaw released a solo album debut on the Unipheye Music label. As Strad observes, “With their exceptional interpretative maturity, tonal refinement, and taut ensemble,” the Dover Quartet is “pulling away from their peers.” Hailed as “the next Guarneri Quartet” ( Chicago Tribune ), the Dover Quartet draws from the lineage of that distinguished ensemble, as well that of the Cleveland and Vermeer Quartets; its members studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and Rice University's Shepherd School of Music, where they were mentored extensively by Shmuel Ashkenasi, James Dunham, Norman Fischer, Kenneth Goldsmith, Joseph Silverstein, Arnold Steinhardt, Michael Tree, and Peter Wiley. It was at Curtis that the Quartet first formed, and its name pays tribute to Dover Beach by fellow Curtis alumnus Samuel Barber. The group has since returned for residencies to Rice in 2011-13, and to Curtis, where it became the conservatory's first Quartet-in-Residence, in 2013-14. In addition, in 2015 the Dover was appointed the first Resident Ensemble of Peoples' Symphony Concerts in the 116-year history of New York City's oldest concert series. The Dover Quartet is dedicated to sharing its music with under-served communities and is actively involved with Music for Food, an initiative enabling musicians to raise resources and awareness in the fight against hunger. The Dover Quartet plays on the following instruments: *Joel Link* : Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, Paris circa 1857, on loan by Desirée Ruhstrat *Bryan Lee* : Riccardo Antoniazzi, Milan 1904 *Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt* : Michele Deconet, Venice, 1780, the ‘Kroyt,' generously on loan from the grandson of Boris Kroyt of the Budapest Quartet *Camden Shaw:* Frank Ravatin, France, 2010

Im Elbphilharmonie »Blind Date« treffen sich eigentlich ein Publikum und ein Künstler - die vorher noch nichts voneinander wussten. Der Mandolinen-Virtuose Avi Avital und sein Duopartner Aydar Gaynullin haben nun ein solches »Blind Date« für ein digitales Publikum gespielt. Konzertstream ansehen.

Šveicarijos itališkojo orkestro koncertas Lugane. Solistas ir dirigentas Avi Avital (mandolina). Programoje Antonio Vivaldi, Johanno Sebastiano Bacho, Avnero Dormano, Bélos Bartóko ir Sulchano Cincadzės kūriniai. Ved. Marius Šinkūnas.

Es gibt keine Konzerte mehr? Doch! Der rbb und das Konzerthaus Berlin haben gestern Weltstars live von der Bühne des Konzerthauses zu den Menschen in Berlin und Brandenburg gebracht: "Wir spielen für Sie. Live aus dem Konzerthaus" - so das Motto des Abends. Dabei waren hochkarätige Musikerinnen und Musiker wie Lang Lang, Daniel Hope und Jacques Ammon, Max Raabe und Avi Avital. Wir haben das auch bei uns im Radio und TV übertragen und - Clemens Goldberg hat es gesehen.

Si inaugura la mostra internazionale di fotografia: “Letterature Urbane 5-0-1”, al padiglione Ex 18 di viale Garibaldi. Il vernissage è venerdì 15, alle 17 e 30, con il trio di musicisti Ozone. La mostra sarà visitabile domenica dalle 10 e 30 a mezzogiorno e dalle 17 alle 19, e da martedì a sabato dalle 17 e 30 alle 19. Al Museo archeologico “Luigi Bruzza”, si tiene una conferenza con degustazione sull'alimentazione nell'età romana, con la possibilità di assaggiare i sapori serviti alla caupona (taverna) di via Giovenone. Venerdì 15 alle 18 nel complesso di Santa Chiara, in corso Libertà. Per la rassegna “I concerti dei maestri”, organizzata dalla Società del Quartetto, è in programma l'esibizione del pianista jazz Daniele Tione. Venerdì 15 alle 21, all'Auditorium della Scuola “Vallotti”, in corso Libertà 300. “Ascoltando il fiume”, è una visita guidata alla raccolta di fotografie del canale Cavour, scattate tra il 1863 e il 1866. A seguire ci sarà un incontro con i fotografi Vittore Fossati, Marco Introini, Emanuele Piccardo, e Mario Tinelli. Organizza la delegazione Fai di Vercelli. Sabato 16, a partire dalle 15, al Parlamentìno dell'Ovest Sesia, in via Duomo 2. Il “Viotti Festival” propone il concerto di Avi Avital al mandolino, accompagnato dall'orchestra Camerata Ducale. Sabato 16 alle 21, al Teatro Civico. A Fontanetto Po va in scena lo spettacolo: “Alle cinque da me”, con Gaia De Laurentiis e Ugo Dighero. Al Teatro “Viotti”, sabato 16 alle 21. Infine, il calcio: nella quindicesima giornata del campionato di Serie C, la Pro Vercelli gioca in trasferta, a Como. La partita si disputa allo stadio “Sinigaglia”, domenica 17 alle 15. I biglietti si possono acquistare fino alle 19 di sabato, presso i consueti punti vendita.

Si inaugura la mostra internazionale di fotografia: “Letterature Urbane 5-0-1”, al padiglione Ex 18 di viale Garibaldi. Il vernissage è venerdì 15, alle 17 e 30, con il trio di musicisti Ozone. La mostra sarà visitabile domenica dalle 10 e 30 a mezzogiorno e dalle 17 alle 19, e da martedì a sabato dalle 17 e 30 alle 19. Al Museo archeologico “Luigi Bruzza”, si tiene una conferenza con degustazione sull'alimentazione nell'età romana, con la possibilità di assaggiare i sapori serviti alla caupona (taverna) di via Giovenone. Venerdì 15 alle 18 nel complesso di Santa Chiara, in corso Libertà. Per la rassegna “I concerti dei maestri”, organizzata dalla Società del Quartetto, è in programma l'esibizione del pianista jazz Daniele Tione. Venerdì 15 alle 21, all'Auditorium della Scuola “Vallotti”, in corso Libertà 300. “Ascoltando il fiume”, è una visita guidata alla raccolta di fotografie del canale Cavour, scattate tra il 1863 e il 1866. A seguire ci sarà un incontro con i fotografi Vittore Fossati, Marco Introini, Emanuele Piccardo, e Mario Tinelli. Organizza la delegazione Fai di Vercelli. Sabato 16, a partire dalle 15, al Parlamentìno dell'Ovest Sesia, in via Duomo 2. Il “Viotti Festival” propone il concerto di Avi Avital al mandolino, accompagnato dall'orchestra Camerata Ducale. Sabato 16 alle 21, al Teatro Civico. A Fontanetto Po va in scena lo spettacolo: “Alle cinque da me”, con Gaia De Laurentiis e Ugo Dighero. Al Teatro “Viotti”, sabato 16 alle 21. Infine, il calcio: nella quindicesima giornata del campionato di Serie C, la Pro Vercelli gioca in trasferta, a Como. La partita si disputa allo stadio “Sinigaglia”, domenica 17 alle 15. I biglietti si possono acquistare fino alle 19 di sabato, presso i consueti punti vendita.

This week Jurassic Park squeezes into some Schoenberg analysis, Tim talks to Tim Carleston of The Queen's Six about their upcoming album, and Sam is very excited about David Bruce's chamber music.Music Credits: Thin Lizzy, ‘The Boys are Back in Town' performed by Timmy FisherArnold Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No.1, performed by the Omega Ensemble John Williams, Jurassic Park Main Theme performed by Timmy Fisher Maurice Ravel, ‘Bolero', performed by Timmy Fisher David Bruce, 'Noon' from Cymbeline performed by Avi Avital and Camerata Pacifica Trad., ‘The Last Rose of Summer', arr. Alexander L'Estrange, performed by The Queen's Six Trad., ‘Suo gân', arr. Ruairi Bowen, performed by The Queen's Six Jean Sibelius, Symphony No. 5, Mov. 3 performed by Timmy FisherFollow us here: instagram.com/classicalpod/ twitter.com/ClassicalPod facebook.com/ClassicalPod/

Na pobudo radovljiške občine so se pod okriljem praznovanja Kovaškega šmarna pred osmimi leti znova povezali kroparski kovaški mojstri in priznani slovenski oblikovalci, umetniki in arhitekti. Ti nadaljujejo nekdanjo tradicijo kovaških kolonij, njihove urbane umetnine, kot so svetilke in ograje, pa so v zadnjih letih obogatile Radovljico. V galerijskem parku v Kostanjevici na Krki se je s predstavitvijo skulptur letošnjih udeležencev končal 28. bienalni Mednarodni simpozij kiparjev Forma viva. Na Ljubljana festivalu se predstavlja izraelski glasbenik Avi Avital na mandolini.

Mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital and jazz bassist Omer Avital join Haley Taylor for a conversation about their high-powered collaborative album Avital Meets Avital, which brings together their two musical worlds with an emphasis on Middle Eastern folk traditions.

Mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital and jazz bassist Omer Avital join Haley Taylor for a conversation about their high-powered collaborative album Avital Meets Avital, which brings together their two musical worlds with an emphasis on Middle Eastern folk traditions.

Renowned guitarists Sergio and Odair Assad and mandolinist Avi Avital perform works by Bach, Haydn, Piazzolla, and others.

The Tactical Guitarist podcast brings you interviews with guitarist, composers, teachers, and anyone else who can share their wisdom, advice and stories on surviving a career in music.My guest for this episode is renowned composer Stephen Goss.Stephen Goss’s music receives hundreds of performances worldwide each year. It has been recorded on over 80 CDs by more than a dozen record labels, including EMI, Decca, Telarc, Virgin Classics, Naxos, and Deutsche Grammophon. His output embraces multiple genres: orchestral and choral works, chamber music, and solo pieces.Goss’s work is marked by a fascination with time and place – both immediate and remote – and the musical styles that evoke them. In many of his compositions, contrasting styles are juxtaposed through abrupt changes of gear. His compositional voice is shaped by his parallel career as a guitarist – that is to say, as a performer, transcriber, arranger, improviser and collaborator with other composers and performers. Not surprisingly, his music often tests the boundaries between all these activities and original composition.Several of Goss’s recent projects have involved the legendary guitarist John Williams, including his Guitar Concerto, which Williams recorded and played on tour with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Some of the world’s leading orchestras to have performed his works include The Russian National Orchestra, The China National Symphony Orchestra, The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, The State Symphony Orchestra ‘New Russia’, The RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, The Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra, The Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and The Barcelona Symphony Orchestra.Commissions have come from guitarists David Russell and Xuefei Yang (including chamber works with cellist Natalie Clein and tenor Ian Bostridge). Goss has also collaborated with Andrew Lloyd Webber, Alt-J, and Avi Avital. As a guitarist, he has worked with Takemitsu, Henze, Peter Maxwell Davies and Elliott Carter, and toured and recorded extensively with the Tetra Guitar Quartet, various other ensembles, and as a soloist.Stephen Goss is Chair of Composition at the University of Surrey (UK), Director of the International Guitar Research Centre, and a Professor of Guitar at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He was born in Wales on 2nd February 1964.Stephen was in Portland for a three day performance of his Albeniz Concerto by renowned guitarist Pablo Villegas and the Oregon Symphony. I was given a unique opportunity to chat briefly with him, so we sat down at Bryan Johanson’s home this past week to talk a little about his accomplishments, some of his history and some great words of wisdom to musicians.

What a grand opening of the 7th edition of the Valletta Baroque Festival (http://vallettabaroquefestival.com.mt) on Friday 11 January 2019 at Teatru Manoel by Capella Gabetta (http://www.cappellagabetta.com/) and Avi Avital (https://www.aviavital.com/) ! They rocked the house with their impressive performance of Extravaganzas for Mandolin. #vbf19 #earlymusic

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Jam-packed with picks from this week's In Tune, including John Rutter, Rowan Williams, Louise Alder, Jessica Cottis, Michael Spyres, Albina Shagimuratova, Avi Avital & Omer Avital

When Avi Avital came in Montreal for the "Virée Classique OSM 2016", I did not miss the opportunity to contact him for an interview. Not only he gave an outstanding performance, but he did take some private time with me to talk about his projects and the expectations he has in his career.

While we are cooking up new episodes for your enjoyment, please enjoy this delicious dish from our archives. Don’t miss Avi’s recent in-studio performances at WQXR, btw!  According to Deutsche Grammophonrecording artist Avi Avital, while the bass is not bad, it’s more about that mandolin. Which is also what this whole episode is about! Avi tells all: Where did the mandolin come from? Who composes for it? Why does he advocate for such a strange instrument? And how much did he play that one REM song in high school? Learn all of this and more right here! Audio production by Todd “Terrific” Hulslander with electric slides by Dacia Clay and editing by Mark DiClaudio. Music in this episode: The Music of Brazil / Jacob do Bandolim, Vol. 1 / Recordings 1949 – 1958. “Choro de varanda”. Mike Marshall and Chris Thile: “Fisher’s Hornpipe”. From Into the Cauldron. Hamilton ee Holanda: Choro Caprice for Caprichos. Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonatina for Mandolin and fortepiano in C Major. Diego Fasolis and Duilio Galfetti. Domenico Scarlatti: Mandolin Sonata in D minor Allegro. Camerata Mandolinos Classico. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni, “Deh vieni alla finestra”. Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Mandolin Concerto in G major, S. 28. REM: “Losing My Religion” from Out of Time. Antonio Vivaldi, from Avi Avital’s CD Vivaldi:  Concerto in A minor RV 356 Largo from Converto in C major RV 443 Concerto in G minor RV 315 “Summer” from The Four Seasons. For more about Avi Avital: www.aviavital.com. 

Avi Avital is a mandolin player and a composer with a broad repertory for his instrument, from many different genres. Suzanne spoke with him about the mandolin and his 2015 recording of Vivaldi Mandolin Concertos with the Venice Baroque Orchestra.

Grammy-nominated mandolinist Avi Avital joins us to preview his album Between Worlds -  a genre-defying tour of the globe exploring the nexus between classical, popular and traditional music.

Questa settimana l’approfondimento sul mandolino e sulla figura di Avi Avital, superstar dello strumento e protagonista di un concerto di beneficenza per l’OSF con Vivaldi e Paisiello al Dal Verme. Sfruttiamo la nostra speaker Chiara, mandolinista di una certa levatura.

Avi Avital brings his mandolin into the In Tune studio

Der Mandolinist Avi Avital ist schwer zu fassen, weil viel unterwegs... Wir haben ihn am Münchener Flughafen abgefangen können, von dort geht es für Avi Avital direkt an den Verhörtisch von Kommissar Clemens Nicol.

According to Deutsche Grammophon recording artist Avi Avital, while the bass is not bad, it’s more about that mandolin. Which is also what this whole episode is about! Avi tells all: Where did the mandolin come from? Who composes for it? Why does he advocate for such a strange instrument? And how much did he play that one REM song in high school? Learn all of this and more right here! Audio production by Todd “Terrific” Hulslander with electric slides by Dacia Clay and editing by Mark DiClaudio. Music in this episode: The Music of Brazil / Jacob do Bandolim, Vol. 1 / Recordings 1949 – 1958. “Choro de varanda”. Mike Marshall and Chris Thile: “Fisher’s Hornpipe”. From Into the Cauldron. Hamilton ee Holanda: Choro Caprice for Caprichos. Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonatina for Mandolin and fortepiano in C Major. Diego Fasolis and Duilio Galfetti. Domenico Scarlatti: Mandolin Sonata in D minor Allegro. Camerata Mandolinos Classico. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni, “Deh vieni alla finestra”. Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Mandolin Concerto in G major, S. 28. REM: “Losing My Religion” from Out of Time. Antonio Vivaldi, from Avi Avital’s CD Vivaldi:  Concerto in A minor RV 356 Largo from Converto in C major RV 443 Concerto in G minor RV 315 “Summer” from The Four Seasons. For more about Avi Avital: www.aviavital.com. 

VIDEO: Avi Avital plays in the WQXR Café When you think mandolin, bluegrass pickers and old-timey music frequently comes to mind – Bill Monroe, Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas or Chris Thile. But when Avi Avital sat down to play in the WQXR Café, the sounds of a Bach cello suite filled the air. Then came the strong mournful strains of Ernest Bloch's Nigun, a variation on an ancient Hebrew melody written for the violin. For self-identified traditionalists of either camp – classical music or the mandolin – it's a bit of a visual and aural shock to the system. But consider that the mandolin has long had a place in classical music, from Vivaldi's concertos to music by Mozart, Beethoven, Mahler and Schoenberg, among other composers. And Avital is no traditionalist. Born in 1978 in Beersheba, a town in southern Israel, Avital is the son of Moroccan parents who immigrated to the country in the 1960s. At age eight, he heard a neighbor play the mandolin and soon convinced his mother to sign him up for lessons. His first teacher was Simcha Nathanson, a Soviet violinist who had a second career as a mandolin instructor in Israel. He started a youth mandolin orchestra which, by the time Avital joined, was 40 members strong and had two recordings to its name. “This bizarre story of a violin teacher coming to a little town in the 1970s, starting a mandolin orchestra and teaching the mandolin was always kind of an advantage for me,” said Avital. “We never looked at the mandolin as just a mandolin so we never thought of it as a limited instrument.”   But after Avital graduated from the Jerusalem Music Academy, he realized that needed to expand his horizons. “I asked myself, ‘can I call myself a mandolinist without really going to Italy and searching for the origins and playing some of the original repertoire and looking into the instrument’s history?’” After military service, Avital headed to Italy, where he studied with Ugo Orlandi at the Conservatorio Cesare Pollini of Padova. Avital went back to basics, learning "all the techniques and original repertoire" and even switching from an Israeli-made instrument to an Italian one. But a pure focus on the Baroque mandolin repertoire wasn’t going to satisfy Avital either. He knew that to build a career for himself he’d need to branch out. He eventually wound up in Berlin, absorbing its eclectic arts scene while splitting his time between concertos with orchestras, recitals and collaborations like the Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project. In 2006, he commissioned Avner Dorman's Mandolin Concerto, which was nominated for a Grammy Award and has evolved into his signature work. This month, he releases his debut on Deutsche Grammophon, an unusual recording of transcriptions of Bach's concertos for violin, flute and oboe. “The nice thing about being a mandolin player is the path I'm walking on is being constructed while I walk on it,” said Avital. “I’m trying a lot of different styles. I enjoy very much playing with orchestras. I have a jazz project with [bassist] Omer Avital and some other jazz players. I have a Balkan trio with accordion and percussion here in New York. I’m trying to keep everything very wide.” Video: Amy Pearl; Sound: Edward Haber; Production & Text: Brian Wise

1 - "Sher" de/from "3 Israeli dances" (Marc Lavri). Avi Avital, mandolin. Zvi Semel, piano 2 - "De tardecita" (1927). Cristobal Repetto, voz/voice. Daniel Yaria, violão/guitar. Javier Amoretti, violão/guitar. 3 - Diálogo Yanomami/ Yanomami indian dialogue 4 - "A Song for Arthur Russell" (Missy Mazzoli). Victoire 5 - "Scherzo - Presto non molto" da/from "Sonata Op. 4" (Leopoldo Miguez). Paulo Bosisio, violino/violin. Lilian Barretto, piano 6 - Canto do bem-te-vi/ Brazilian birdcall