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Yehuda Hanani
Yehuda Hanani has been guest soloist with many orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Berlin Radio Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, Buenos Aires Philharmonic, and Hong Kong Symphony, collaborating with conductors such as Christoph Eschenbach, David Robertson and Vladimir Fedoseyev. He performed at Marlboro, where he studied with Pablo Casals, and at the Aspen Music Festival, where he is a permanent member of the faculty. Other festival appearances have been Chautauqua, Yale at Norfolk, Round Top (TX), Great Lakes, Blue Hill, Musicorda, Prades Festival (France), Finland Festival, Ottawa, Oslo, and Australia Chamber Music festival. He presents master classes at conservatories worldwide including the Juilliard School, University of Indiana at Bloomington, New England Conservatory, Peabody Conservatory (where he was on the faculty for 10 years), Berlin Hochschule, Paris Conservatoire, Royal Academy of Music and Guildhall in London, Tokyo National University, Utrecht Conservatory, University of Ottawa, New World Symphony, Colombia, Israel, Spain, Brazil and others. Since his New York debut at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he has appeared at Carnegie Hall, 92nd Street Y and Lincoln Center. He has collaborated in performances with preeminent fellow musicians, including Leon Fleisher, Itzhak Perlman, Yefim Bronfman, the Tokyo, Vermeer, Muir, Lark and Colorado quartets, and with distinguished performers from other art forms -- choreographer David Parsons and actors Sigourney Weaver and Richard Chamberlain. A champion of contemporary and rarely played cello repertoire, he has had composers write music specifically for him, including a recent work by Osvaldo Golijov premiered with soprano Dawn Upshaw, and commissions by Lera Auerbach, John Musto, Bernard Rands, and Kenji Bunch. He made the first recording of the monumental Alkan Cello Sonata, which received a Grand Prix du Disque nomination, as well as the Nicholai Maiskovsky sonatas and American works by Lukas Foss and Leo Ornstein. Artistic director of the thematic chamber music series in Scottsdale and the Berkshires, “Close Encounters With Music, ” he also leads the BachAnnalia Festival at CCM.
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