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July 19 & 20 ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Photo: Marco Borggreve alongside long-time collaborator Janine Jansen at
the 30 anniversary edition of the esteemed Verbier
th
Festival in 2023. The start of 2024 featured a tour
to the Guangzhou Xinghai Concert Hall, Shenzhen
Concert Hall and Hong Kong Cultural Centre with
Daniel Harding and Vilde Frang as part of the 2024
Youth Music Culture the Greater Bay Area, which
involved a two-week educational residency with over
100 young musicians from all around China.
Grosz’s other recent highlights include engagements
with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe at the Hamburg
Elbphilharmonie with violinist Veronika Eberle, Tokyo
Metropolitan Symphony (Alan Gilbert), Orchestre
National de Lyon (Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider), Palermo
Orchestra Sinfonica del Teatro Massimo (Omer Meir
Wellber), Grand Teton Music Festival (Sir Donald
Runnicles), Concert de la Loge with violinist Julien
Chauvin, and the Orchestre National de Lille
(Alexandre Bloch).
Grosz remains extremely fond of his chamber music
collaborations, and has worked with artists such as
Yefim Bronfman, Mitsuko Uchida, Daniel Hope,
Eric Le Sage, Janine Jansen, Julian Steckel, Daishin
Kashimoto and David Geringas. Internationally, he
can be heard regularly at the most prestigious
concert halls such as the Concertgebouw Amsterdam,
Amihai Grosz Zurich Tonhalle, Wigmore Hall and the Philharmonie
Viola Luxembourg, as well as at leading festivals such as
the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Evian,
Verbier and Delft festivals, the BBC Proms and the
Amihai Grosz has enjoyed a unique career path to Utrecht International Chamber Music Festival.
date, having founded the Jerusalem Quartet in 1995,
and later being appointed Principal Viola of the Signed exclusively to the Alpha Classics label,
renowned Berlin Philharmonic in 2010. Invitations for Grosz’s first concerto album, released in autumn
solo work soon followed and have expanded in 2023, featured the Bartók Viola Concerto with the
recent years to include collaborations with conductors Orchestra National de Lille and Alexandre Bloch,
such as Zubin Mehta, Daniel Barenboim, Sir Simon with a subsequent release planned for late 2024.
Rattle, Tugan Sokhiev, Klaus Mäkelä, Nathalie Grosz first started playing viola at age 11, having
Stutzmann, Ingo Metzmacher, Lionel Bringuier and previously started on violin. He was taught by
Ariel Zuckermann. Previously, he has performed as David Chen in Jerusalem, then later by Tabea
soloist with orchestras such as the Finnish Radio Zimmermann in Frankfurt and Berlin as well as in
Symphony, Warsaw Philharmonic, Danish National Tel Aviv by Chaim Taub, the latter of whom had a
Symphony, Swedish Radio Symphony, Barcelona formative influence on him. He received various
Symphony, National Symphony of Ireland and the grants and prizes at a very early age and was a
Zurich Chamber Orchestra. member of the “Young Musicians Group” of the
Grosz commenced his 2023-24 season at the Jerusalem Music Center, a program for outstanding
inaugural Tsindali Festival in Georgia, joining young musical talents. He is based in Berlin and
Gianandrea Noseda, Augustin Hadelich and the plays a 1570 Gasparo da Salò viola on loan for life
Pan-Caucasian Youth Orchestra for Mozart’s from a private collection.
Sinfonia Concertante, a piece he also reprised www.amihaigroszviola.com

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