{"id":5805,"date":"2025-05-14T18:30:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T16:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/?page_id=5805"},"modified":"2025-05-14T18:30:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T16:30:27","slug":"gil-shaham-violin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/en\/gil-shaham-violin\/","title":{"rendered":"Gil Shaham, violin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\" id=\"wpb-content-root\"><p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1538679572306{margin-top: 60px !important;margin-bottom: 60px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text]<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4359 size-full alignjustify alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" src=\"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/gil-shaham-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"420\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gil Shaham is one of the foremost violinists of our time: his flawless technique combined with his inimitable warmth and generosity of spirit has solidified his renown as an American master. The Grammy Award-winner,\u202falso named Musical America\u2019s \u201cInstrumentalist of the Year,\u201d is sought after\u202fthroughout the world for concerto appearances with leading orchestras and conductors, and regularly gives recitals and appears with ensembles on the world\u2019s great concert stages and at the most prestigious festivals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Highlights of recent years include the acclaimed recording and performances of J.S. Bach\u2019s complete sonatas and partitas for solo violin. In the coming seasons in addition to championing these solo works he will join\u202fhis long time duo partner pianist, Akira Eguchi in recitals throughout North\u202fAmerica, Europe, and Asia.\u202fAppearances with orchestra regularly include the Berlin Philharmonic, NDR\u202fElbphilharmonie Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Boston Symphony,\u202fChicago Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New\u202fYork Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, and San Francisco Symphony as\u202fwell as multi-year residencies with the Orchestras of Montreal, SWR Symphonieorchester Stuttgart and Singapore.\u202fMr. Shaham has more than two dozen concerto and solo CDs to his name, earning multiple Grammys, a Grand Prix du Disque, Diapason d\u2019Or, and Gramophone Editor\u2019s Choice. Many of these recordings appear on Canary Classics, the label he founded in 2004. His CDs include 1930s Violin Concertos, Virtuoso Violin Works, Elgar\u2019s Violin Concerto, Hebrew Melodies, The Butterfly Lovers and many more. His most recent recording in the series 1930s Violin Concertos Vol. 2, including the Prokofiev\u2019s Violin\u202fConcerto and Bartok\u2019s Violin Concerto No. 2 was nominated for a Grammy Award.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr. Shaham was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1990, and in 2008, received the coveted Avery Fisher Prize. In 2012, he was named \u201cInstrumentalist of the Year\u201d by Musical America. He plays the 1699 \u201cCountess Polignac\u201d Stradivarius, and lives in New York City with his wife, violinist Adele Anthony, and their three children.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]<div class=\"ova_heading_v3 \"><span class=\"one\"><\/span><span class=\"two\"><\/span><span class=\"three\"><\/span><span class=\"four\"><\/span><span class=\"five\"><\/span><span class=\"six\"><\/span><h3 class=\"title\">Press<\/h3><\/div>[vc_empty_space]<div class=\"event_testimonial \" data-loop=\"false\" data-auto_slider=\"true\" data-duration=\"3000\" data-pagination=\"false\" data-count=\"1\"><div class=\"item \"><div class=\"desc\">\u201cThe outstanding American violinist of his generation.\u201d<\/div><div class=\"author\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"Time\"><div class=\"info\"><div class=\"name\">Time<\/div><div class=\"job\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1538679572306{margin-top: 60px !important;margin-bottom: 60px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text] Gil Shaham is one of the foremost violinists of our time: his flawless technique combined with his inimitable warmth and generosity of spirit has solidified his renown as an American master. The Grammy Award-winner,\u202falso named Musical America\u2019s \u201cInstrumentalist of the Year,\u201d is sought after\u202fthroughout the world for concerto appearances [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5805","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5805"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5808,"href":"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5805\/revisions\/5808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}