The Jerusalem Trio

Roi Shiloah, violin
Ariel Tushinsky, cello
Yaron Rosenthal, piano

Web Address:
www.jerusalemtrio.com

The Jerusalem Trio have established a major international career based on their thoughtful and passionate music making. This award-winning young piano trio have thrilled audiences in the United States, Canada, Japan, Germany, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, South America and beyond. Winners of the 1st prize at the 1999 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition, they are also Prize Winners at the 1995 Melbourne International Competition and have won, as individuals, America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship Awards.

Founded in Israel in 1989, the group began working together under the auspices of the Jerusalem Music Centre. founded by Isaac Stern and Jerusalem’s Mayor Teddy Kollek as a meeting point for visiting international masters and talented young Israeli musicians, the Centre helped establish the Jerusalem Trio as Israel’s leading piano trio. At the time. The Strad commented “…The Jerusalem Trio took a different, but thought provoking view, the myriad colours they have at their disposal having the hallmark of impending greatness…” Indeed, these young artists have collaborated in performance with some very great masters, including Isaac Stern, Pinchas Zukerman and Shlomo Mintz. 

The group recorded the Shostakovich and Ravel CD on JMC label following their highly acclaimed Brahms recording (DOREMI DDR-71132), about which FANFARE MAGAZINE commented “Youthful zest and virtuosity abound in these intensely emotional readings.” (Fanfare September/October 1998).

The ensemble maintains a steady schedule of recitals, orchestral performances (of the Beethoven “Triple” Concerto), teaching and recording throughout North America, Asia and Europe. Numerous festivals keep them busy, including the Pro-Festival in Rolandseck and Insel Hombroich Festivals in Germany, Kfar Blum Festival in Israel, the Dubrovnick Festival in Croatia and the Banff Festival in Canada. They have performed in such prestigious concert halls as Avery Fisher Hall in New York’s Lincoln Center, the Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Hall, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt and the Melbourne Symphony Hall in Australia.

The members of the Jerusalem Trio are faculty members of the Rubin Music Academy at the Jerusalem Hebrew University.

Yaron Rosenthal, piano, has been a soloist with the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Avery Fisher Hall-Lincoln Center, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the National Orchestra of RAI in Turin-Italy, the Ordea Symphony Orchestra in Romania, the Santiago de Chile Philharmonic and Camerate Virtousi of New York. A first prize winner of the Young Artist Competition in Jerusalem, he has received the “Gina Bachauer Award”, the “Leonard Bernstein Fellowship” at Tanglewood Music Center and the Italian Government Award for the Arts. He has given recitals and chamber music concerts in Israel, North and South America, Europe, South Africa and Australia. His festival appearances have included the Banff Festival in Canada and Tanglewood in the USA. Since 1995 Mr. Rosenthal is being coached by Murray Perahia.

Roi Shiloah, violin, first appeared with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 12. Since then, as a first prize winner of the “Francois Shapira” 1992, Israel, he has appeared frequently with the I.P.O. under the baton of Maestro Zubin Mehta in Israel, Canada and Europe. He has also performed as a soloist with the Young Israel Philharmonic around Europe, the Berlin Radio Orchestra, the London symphony, the Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, the Sofia Philharmonic, the Dusburg Symphony, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Royal Symphony of Flanders. He has performed in major concert hall around the world such as the Avery Fisher Hall-Lincoln Center, the Gevanthouse in Leipzig, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, the Albert Hall in London, the Thompson Hall in Toronto, the Philharmonie in Berlin and the Melbourne Symphony hall in Australia. Former student of Professor Haim Taub, he plays a Guadagnini Violin loaned by the America-Israel Cultrural Foundation.

Ariel Tushinsky, cello, a winner of the Clairmint competition in Israel, Ariel Tushinsky appeared as a soloist with various orchestras including the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra under Maestro Zubin Mehta, and with Isaac Stern and Yefim Bronfmann in chamber music concerts. He has performed in major concert halls in the world such as the Avery Fisher Hall-Lincoln Center, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, the Philharmonie in Berlin, the Mann Auditorium in Tel-Aviv and the Melbourne Symphony hall in Australia. A regular participant of the Pro Festival in Rolandseck, Villa Musica festival, Insel Hombroich festival and the Banff Arts festival in Alberta, Canada. He also records for radio stations and gives recitals and chamber music concerts in Israel, Europe, South America, Australia and the United States. A former student of Bernard Greenhouse and Aldo Parissot at Yale University, he plays a cello on loan from the Raitman tubert Collection, Mendoza, Argentina.

“Each player is obviously a soloist of international caliber, but each is also subsumed into a unity for purposes of interpretation.” –Fanfare Magazine

“…The Jerusalem Trio is an exceptionally accomplished ensemble possessing both impressive technical accomplishment and musical eloquence…” -The Calgary Herald (writing about the Beethoven Triple Concerto with the Calgary Philharmonic) May 1998

“…The Jerusalem Trio displayed a delightful blending of youthful freshness with remarkably mature expression and shaping…” -The Jerusalem Post