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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
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 1995 Epinal International
Piano Competition in France, and top prizes at the 1995 International Music
Competition of Japan and at the Köln (1993) and Bremen (1996) International
Piano Competitions.
Reichert is a frequent soloist with all the leading orchestras in his native
country, Israel, 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 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,
Nicholas Cleobury, James Conlon, Peter Bay, James De Priest, Leslie Dunner,
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, David Lockington, Ken-ichiro Kobayashi, Emmanuel Krivine,
Meir Minsky, Kevin Rhodes, Guillermo Figueroa and Barry Wordsworth.
In the United States he has appeared with the Spokane and Yakima Orchestras, the
Chicago Sinfonietta, the Fort Worth 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. The 2008 season includes performances of Beethoven’s
Emperor Concerto with the Traverse Symphony Orchestra, Rachmaninov’s Piano
Concerto No.2 with the Tacoma Symphony, and Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on Theme of
Paganini with the Springfield (MA) Symphony Orchestra.
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 and high critical praise. 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, Maya Beiser, Guy Braunstein,
Yuri Gandelsman, Vadim Gluzman, Dylana Jenson, Bill Purcell and Philippe Quint.
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 Mozart concerti with the Music in the
Mountains Festival Orchestra under the baton of Mischa Semanitzky.
In addition to his busy performing career, Reichert is a sought-after teacher
who is frequently invited to conduct master-classes in Japan, Korea, South
Africa, Israel and the United States. From 2001-2008 he held the positions of
Associate Professor of Piano and Artist-in-Residence at Grand Valley State
University in Allendale, MI. Mr. Reichert was recently appointed Professor of
Piano at Seoul National University, College of Music.
Aviram Reichert studied at the Rubin Academy of Music, Tel Aviv with Professor Arie Vardi.
He is a Steinway artist.
March, 2009
