Biography
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"Aviram Reichert is
not only a virtuoso. He is "Jack the Giant Killer" and Arnold Schwarzeneger all
rolled into one!"
Lyn Bronson - Internet Review
Israeli pianist Aviram Reichert – acclaimed for his deeply intelligent interpretations, phenomenal technique and ravishing tone - won the Bronze Medal at the 10th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1997. Earlier accomplishments include First Prize at the Dong-A International Piano Competition in Seoul, Korea in 1996, Grand Prix at the Epinal International Piano Competition in France in 1995, and top prizes at the 1995 International Music Competition of Japan, the 1996 Köln and 1993 Bremen International Piano Competitions.
Reichert is a frequent soloist with all the leading orchestras in his native country including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Haifa Symphony Orchestra, Israel Chamber Orchestra and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. His prize-winning participation in competitions in Japan and Korea has brought him engagements for recital and concert tours in the Far East where he has been earning immense applause for more than a decade, performing in Japan with the Tokyo Philharmonic, Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra and the NHK Symphony Orchestra and with the Daegu Symphony Orchestra of South Korea. He has also performed with the National Symphony of the Dominican Republic, the major symphony orchestras in South Africa, and has played and recorded with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Jerusalem Broadcast Symphony Orchestra and the Dessau Symphony Orchestra (Germany). Conductors he has worked with include the late Sergiu Commissiona, James Conlon, Peter Bay, James De Priest, Leslie Dunner, David Lockington, Ken-ichiro Kobayashi, Emmanuel Krivine, Meir Minsky, Nicholas Cleobury and Barry Wordsworth.
In the United States he has appeared with the Spokane and Yakima Orchestras, the Chicago Sinfonietta, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Traverse Symphony Orchestra, Eugene Symphony Orchestra, South Carolina Philharmonic, Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra, West Shore Symphony Orchestra and the Music in the Mountains Festival Orchestra, amongst numerous others.
In recital, Reichert has performed throughout the United States, Israel, South Africa, Japan, Korea and Europe where an appearance at the Herkules-Saal in Munich elicited an enthusiastic ovation from Joachim Kaiser in the Suddeutsche Zeitung newspaper. Festival performances include the Ruhr and Epinal Music Festivals, Tokyo Summer Festival, Bear Valley, CA, Durango and Steamboat Springs, CO, Ravinia Festival, the Fontana and the Gilmore Keyboard Festivals. A fine chamber musician, he has collaborated with artists such as Anne Akiko Meyers, Vadim Gluzman, Philippe Quint, Guy Braunstein, Yuri Gandelsman, Dylana Jenson, Maya Beiser and Bill Purcell.
Aviram Reichert studied at the Tel Aviv Rubin Academy of Music with Arie Vardi. He can be heard on a Harmonia Mundi CD featuring highlights of his prize-winning solo performance at the Van Cliburn Competition, a Jerusalem Music Center label (JMC), featuring two Schubert Sonatas, and a recording of a live performance of Mozart concerti with the Music in the Mountains Festival Orchestra under the baton of Mischa Semanitzky.
Reichert, a Steinway artist, is an Artist in Residence at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, MI.
September 2007
