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Gil Shaham
12+ albums
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Gil Shaham (b. 1971) is an American-born violinist who studied at the Juilliard School of Music. He has performed and recorded widely since 1989. Gil Shaham was born in Urbana, Illinois while his parents, Israeli scientists, were on an academic fellowship at the University of Illinois. His father Jacob Shaham was an astrophysicist, and his mother, Meira Diskin, was a cytogeneticist. His sister is the pianist Orli Shaham. He is a graduate of the Horace Mann School in Riverdale, New York. The family returned to Jerusalem when Gil was two. At the age of seven, Shaham began taking violin lessons from Samuel Bernstein at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem. In 1980, when Shaham was nine years old, he played for Isaac Stern, Nathan Milstein and Henryk Szeryng, and attended the Aspen Music School in Colorado, studying with Dorothy DeLay (the teacher of many other leading artists, including Itzhak Perlman and Sarah Chang) and Jens Ellerman. Shaham is married to the Australian-born violinist Adele Anthony. They have two children, Elijah and Ella Mei. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
top songs
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Pärt: Fratres for violin, string orchestra and percussion
1,3102Septet in E flat major, Op. 20/Andante con variazioni
1,0533Septet in E flat major, Op. 20/Adagio cantabile
9194Septet in E flat major, Op. 20/Tempo di Minuetto
7905Three Pieces from Schindler's List for Solo Violin and Orchestra: Theme from "Schindler's List"
7676Concerto for Violin and Strings in F minor, Op.8, No.4, R.297 "L'inverno" - 2. Largo
7317Septet in E flat major, Op. 20/Scherzo: Allegro molto e vivace
5558Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre, Op. 40 - transcribed f. vl./pn. by Cps
4819Septet in E flat major, Op. 20/Adagio - Allegro con brio
395103 Songs, Op. 7: I. Après un rêve
306albums
Barber: Violin Concerto / Korngold: Violin Concerto; Much Ado About Nothing
The Fiddler Of The Opera
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Gil Shaham & Jonathan Feldman - The Devil's Dance
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Pärt: Tabula rasa; Fratres; Symphony No.3
Violin Romances
Vivaldi: Le quattro stagioni
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Op.35 - Chen, He: Butterfly Lovers, Violin Concerto
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Devil's Dance
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Paganini For Two
Bruch: Violin Concerto No.1 In G Minor Opus 26
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The Art of Gil Shaham
Glazunov / Kabalevsky: Violin Concertos