Michal Korman
cello

Michal was born in Jerusalem in 1983 and is currently completing her M. Mus. degree with Timothy Eddy at The Juilliard School. She gained her Bachelor's degree at the Buchman- Mehta School of Music in the cello class of Hillel Zori. Michal has performed as soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Zubin Mehta, with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and with the Israel Camerata Jerusalem, and has recently been invited to perform as soloist with The Tivoli Festival Orchestra, Copenhagen in May 2007, and in Lima, Peru in September.

Michal has participated in various festivals in the U.S. and Europe including the West-Eastern-Divan directed by Daniel Barenboim, the Yellow Barn Festival and the Manchester International Cello Festival, in which she will participate again as the representative selected by The Juilliard School. She has also been invited to participate at the Marlboro Music Festival in this coming summer.

Michal is an active chamber musician. She is a graduate of the Jerusalem Music Center Young Musicians Group, has performed various concerts in live and recorded broadcasts on Israel National radio and has collaborated with musicians including Itamar Golan, Bonnie Hampton and members of the Peabody Trio. During her musical studies she has been instructed by numerous artists including Anner Bylsma, Bernard Greenhouse, Franz Helmerson, Martin Lovett, Steven Isserlis, Ralph Kirshbaum, Mischa Maisky, Janos Starker, Roger Tapping, Donald Weilerstein and Garry Hoffman.

on the program

Osvaldo Golijov: The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind

meet the performers

Avi Avital, mandolin

Tibi Cziger, clarinets

Arnaud Sussmann, violin

Lily Francis, violin

Eric Nowlin, viola

Michal Korman, cello

meet the composers

Avner Dorman

Béla Bartók

Osvaldo Golijov

Dmitri Shostakovich