Composer & Piano
Biography:
Gilead Mishory, born in Jerusalem in 1960, began playing the piano at the age of nine, but it was not until the age of 21, after a three-year »play break«, that he decided to devote himself entirely to music. He first studied at the Rubin Academy in Jerusalem, on the recommendation of Alfred Brendel he completed his studies with Gerhard Oppitz in Munich and with Hans Leygraf at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. He also studied musicology at the University of Munich.
As the first pianist, he recorded the entire piano works and chamber music with piano by Leoš Janáček. Further CDs with works by Haydn, Brahms, Schubert, Bartók and with his own compositions as well as numerous radio recordings were equally well received. The enthusiastic critics described him as a "sound magician", as a "technically perfect poet of the piano" and as a "pianist with a sense of sound, charm and esprit".
With the cycle premiered in 1998 Lid Togbuch based on poems by Abraham Sutzkever he made his breakthrough as a composer. His affinity for literature as a source of inspiration is also evident in the Hebrew ballads after Else Lasker-Schüler, at escape pieces based on the novel by Anne Michaels, in a string quartet Psalm after Paul Celan, or Di wajte hajmat majne for tenor and orchestra, after poems by Marc Chagall. his first opera Isaac's youth, he finished in 2010. In 2011 the first CD with his works was released by NEOS.
In 2000, after a two-year professorship at the Hochschule Detmold-Dortmund, Gilead Mishory was appointed to the Musikhochschule in Freiburg, succeeding Seemann, Levin and Béroff. He is currently in charge of the piano department there. He is regularly invited to give master classes around the world.
Albums:
Psalm – Fugitive Pieces – Psalm:
