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GILAD HAREL - Clarinet |
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Clarinetist Gilad Harel is an avid chamber music
player, a new music promoter and an active klezmer/world music performer. Gilad Harel is co-artistic director of Fountain Chamber Music Society, New
York; and the clarinetist of the Fountain
and the Proteus Ensembles. He was a
guest performer with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the
Zephyros Wind Ensemble, the Solstice Ensemble, and is on the faculty at the
Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music in New Hampshire. His chamber music
festival appearances include the Music From Salem Festival, NY; Craftsbury
Chamber Players Festival, VT; Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, NH;
Crested Butte Music Festival, CO; The Music Festival of the Hamptons; the
Pensacola Chamber Music Festival, FL; and the Yellow Barn Chamber Music School
and Festival, VT. Gilad Harel has participated in premiere
performances and recordings of works by Bruce Adolph, Jonathan Keren, Harold
Farberman and Israel Sharon, and has collaborated with composers Tania Leon,
Joshua Fineberg, Rand Steiger, Tristan Murail, George
Edwards, Menachem Zur, Samuel Adler, Thomas Z. Shepard, Ofer Ben Amotz, and
Steve Burke. Gilad is a member of the Manhatten Sinfonietta,
Kaprizma Ensemble for new music, Jerusalem; and has played with the SEM
Ensemble, Argento Ensemble, the Sospeso Ensemble, the New Millennium Ensemble
and the Erick Hawkins Dance Company. Gilad’s new music festival appearances
include the American Festival of Microtonal Music; the Lincoln Center
Festival and the Focus! Festival. Gilad Harel is a member of the fabulous Quinteto
Roberto Rodriguez, playing Cuban/Jewish music. They have recently performed
at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and have released 2 new albums for the
Tzadik recording label. Gilad is also a founding member of Klezshop, a
klezmer trio playing their own original compositions; and a member of the
Cardamon Quartet, a group fusing Middle-Eastern, Balkan, Israeli and Jazz
music. In the summer of 2005, Gilad met maestro Giora Feidman and
participated in his Klezmer clarinet festival in addition to his appearances
at the Safed Klezmer Music Festival, Israel. As an instructor, Gilad Harel is a substitute
teacher at the Juilliard Pre-College Division, and faculty at the 92nd
Street Y, New York; the Bergen Academy of Music, New Jersey, and the Saint
Ann’s School in Brooklyn. He has given master classes at the Hamilton
College, NY; the Southeastern Oklahoma State University, the Temple
University of Texas and the Community College of West Palm Beach, Florida. He
is on the faculty at the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music in NH, and was a
guest faculty at the Putney-Vermont Chamber Music Intensive; and the Young
Artist Program for outstanding musicians, Amherst College, Massachusetts. Gilad is a graduate of the Juilliard School, New
York; the Conservatoire National de Musique de Paris; and the Israeli
Conservatory of Music, Tel-Aviv. He was a recipient of the America Israel
Cultural Foundation scholarships for 10 years. |
