Bangkok--15 Jan--Art Pool
Sivan Silver and Gil Garburg, two of the most brilliant and promising young Israeli pianists, founded the Silver-Garburg Piano Duo in 1997. Brought to Bangkok by the Embassy of Israel for the second time, the Piano Duo will be performing a four-hand programme “ISRAELI FOUR HAND PIANO RETICAL” in the ballroom of The Sukhothai on Thursday, January 25, 2007 at 8 p.m.
Featured on the concert programme for piano, four hands are F. Schubert’s Sonata in C Major, Op. 140, D. 812 (Known as “Grand Duo”), I. Stravinsky — The Rite of Spring (First part: The Adoration of the Earth) and F.Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Having performed extensively in nearly forty countries on the five continents, playing in halls as the Carnegie Hall and with orchestras such as the Israel Philharmonic, made them within a few years one of the remarkable piano-duos on the international stages, gaining enthusiastic acclaim by music audiences and critics.
Sivan Silver, born in Israel in 1976, and Gil Garburg, born in Israel in 1975, are graduates of the Thelma Yellin High School for the Arts. They studied at the Rubin Music Academy at the Tel-Aviv University and are studying for their "Solo" degree with Prof. Arie Vardi at the "Hochschule f?r Musik und Theater" in Hanover , Germany . Both were recipients of America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarships.
Ms. Silver and Mr. Garburg are first prize winners of numerous national and international competitions, both as soloists and as a duo. They have won the first prize at more than a dozen competitions, among them the "Brahms International Competition, Hamburg" and the "Hannover Musikhochschule Wettbewerb" in Germany; "Franco Gulli Prix", "IBLA Grand Prize", "Viotti Valsessia" and "Cittเ di Pavia" international competitions in Italy and "Goralnik", "Katcz", "Clairmont" and the "Tel- Aviv Rubin Music Academy" Competitions in Israel.
Concert tickets are available at 1,000 baht for adults and 500 baht for students/ children. Seating is limited. Up to 3 days before the concert, tickets can be delivered to your home or office. Reserve your tickets now or purchase them in advance by calling Ibycus office, Tel: 0 2932 9208 or E-mail: [email protected] .
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