Itamar Carmeli piano
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach
Capriccio sopra la lontananza del suo fratello dilettissimo, BWV 992 (Capriccio on the departure of the much-loved brother)
Gideon Klein
Piano Sonata
Johann Sebastian Bach
The well-tempered piano
Part I - Prelude and Fugue No. 10, BWV 855 in E minor
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Prelude and Fugue in E minor, Op. 35/1
Prelude and Fugue in B minor, Op. 35/3
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Béla Bartók
Burlesques for piano, Op. 8
Robert Schumann
Humoresque, Op. 20
My first piano teacher was my grandmother. Every year she took me to hear András Schiff's concerts, which changed my life. A decade later, I moved to Berlin to study with him at the Barenboim-Said Akademie.
Itamar Carmeli
Born in Tel Aviv in 2000, pianist Itamar Carmeli has been studying at the University of Music and Performing Arts Berlin since 2020. Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin with Sir András Schiff.
The festivals and venues at which he has performed include the Mendelssohn House in Leipzig, the Intonations Festival (Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival) and the Pierre Boulez Hall in Berlin, Arte Amanti Festival in Belgium, Radio Classique Festival in Saint Malo (France), Tribul Artistic in Romania, Into the open in Berlin and Tbilisi, Georgia, Moscow Meets Friends Festival, Chieti Classica, Largo Mahler Auditorium in Milan, Accademia Filarmonica Romana, Mannes Sounds Festival in New York, Jerusalem Music Centre, MustonenFest Tallinn - Tel Aviv, Corfu International Festival, Rheinsberg Palace Theatre Chamber Operaand as a soloist with the Kuopio Symphony Orchestra (Finland), the Haifa Symphony Orchestra, the Israel Camerata and the Spectrum Ensemble (Israel).
He has worked with artists such as the violinists Michael Barenboim, Clara-Jumi Kang and Benjamin Schmidt, the violist Zvi Carmeli, the mezzo-soprano Eliraz Carmeli, the cellists Thomas Demenga and Astrig Siranossian, the Pierre Boulez Ensemble (under the direction of Daniel Cohen and Thomas Guggeis), the Staatskapelle Berlin at the Berlin State Opera Unter den Lindenconducted by Sir Simon Rattle, Cristian Macelaru and Finnegan Downie Dear.
Itamar Carmeli completed his studies at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance with Daria Monastyrksi and at the Mannes School of Music in New York with Pavlina Dokovska, where he received a full scholarship. He is a scholarship holder of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation and graduate of the David Goldman Programme for Outstanding Young Musicians of the Jerusalem Music Centre and the national mentoring programme of the Henrietta Szold Institute for highly gifted students in Israel in co-operation with the Weizmann Institute for Natural Sciences, where he studied composition with Menachem Wiesenberg.
Itamar is regularly coached by Daniel Barenboim, both as a solo pianist and as a chamber musician, and he has attended masterclasses with Murray Perahia, Jerome Lowenthal, Boris Berman, Jean Yves Thibaudet, Jonathan Biss, Andreas Frölich, Christian A. Pohl, Emanuel Krasovsky, Frans Helmerson, Michaela Martin, Michael Barenboim, Miriam Fried and Gary Hoffman, Orfeo Mandozzi, Emmanuel Pahud, Ludwig Quandt and Jacques Zoon.
As a jazz pianist, he received a full scholarship to study at the Berklee College of Music (USA), where he participated in the annual Berklee Five Weeks Jazz Workshop under the direction of Terry Lynn-Carrington and Rick DiMuzio. Itamar Carmeli has performed with artists such as the violinist Benjamin Schmidt from Austria and the Italian pianist and composer Cesare Pico. Further concerts have taken him to the Red Sea Jazz Festival in Israel and to the Cambridge Jazz Festival in Massachusetts, USA.
Building Bridges is supported by the Melinda Esterházy de Galantha Foundation, the Ernst-Herbert and Christiane Pfleiderer Foundation & C. Bechstein.
Organised by C. Bechstein/Ehrbar Saal. Tickets can be purchased in advance and at the box office at the following prices: € 45,- (Cat. 1), € 35,- (Cat. 2, wheelchair space), € 10,- (pupils and students up to 27)
