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Acclaimed Israeli pianist Daniel Gortler has delighted both audiences and critics alike with his memorable performances around the world, receiving great praise for both his technical mastery and his musical ingenuity. Daniel Gortler has performed as soloist with the Berlin Radio Symphony, the Bavarian Radio Symphony, the NDR Symphony, the North-West German Philharmonic, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, and the Houston, San Francisco, New World, Atlanta and the San Jose Symphony Orchestras. In addition he has also performed with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra as well as all of the major orchestras in his home country of Israel.
Mr. Gortler replaced Murray Perahia on very short notice, performing the Schumann Piano Concerto with the San Francisco SO under conductor Valery Gergiev. Other esteemed conductors with whom Daniel Gortler has collaborated include Zubin Mehta, Christoph Eschenbach, Michael Tilson Thomas, Yoel Levi, Steven Sloane, Franz Welzer-Most, Manfred Honeck, Mendi Rodan, Yuri Ahronovich, Leonid Grin and Justus Frantz, among others. He has appeared at the Houston Summer Festival, the Israel Festival and the Montpellier, Luzern, Schleswig-Holstein and the Verbier Music Festivals. He has also participated in a video recording of Mark Neikrug's "Through Roses", collaborating with Pinchas Zukerman.
In addition to his frequent orchestral and recital performances, Daniel Gortler is an avid chamber music performer. He regularly performs with artists including Bo Skovhus, Nikolaj Znaider, David Garrett and Steven Isserlis. Mr. Gortler made his New York recital debut at the 92nd Street Y and at the Teatre Mogador in Paris, performing the complete cycle of Mendelssohn's "Songs Without Words". Later he recorded that same cycle for JMC (Jerusalem Music Center). In 2003 Gortler recorded an album for BMG Classics with violinist Nikolaj Znaider.
Mr. Gortler's most recent performances include recitals in the Lincoln Center and Metropolitan Museum Of Art in New York, and a debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Among his upcoming engagements are performances with Orchestre De Paris, his debut-recital at Wigmore Hall in London, and tours in South Korea and Japan.
Daniel Gortler won first prize in Chile's Vina del Mar International Competition in 1987, and in the Bremen International Piano Competition in 1991. He has also won the Gina Bachauer Award in Jerusalem and the Salon de Virtuoso annual award in New York, placed second place in the Munich International Piano Competition, and, at the age of 19, placed third at the Geneva International Piano Competition.
Gortler began studying the piano with Ms. Naomi Hachohen. He graduated from the Rubin Music Academy in Tel-Aviv and later from the Musikhochschule in Hanover where he studied with Professor Arie Vardi. Mr. Gortler is currently a faculty member of the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel-Aviv University.
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