Martyn Jackson   (violin)   1.00pm

Accompanist – Michael Ierace

Leoš Janáček – Sonata

(2nd movement – Ballada, Con moto)

Saint-Saëns/Ysaÿe – Caprice d'apres l'Etude en forme de valse

P. I. Tchaikovsky – Valse Sentimentale

Kimon Parry   (clarinet)   1.20pm

Accompanist – Tom Blach

Igor Stravinsky – Three Pieces for solo clarinet

Arthur Bliss – Pastoral

Donato Lovreglio – Fantasia da Concerto su motivi de “La Traviata” de G. Verdi

Jayson Gillham   (piano)   1.40pm

György Ligeti – Automne a Varsovie (Etude No. 6)

Bach/Grainger – Blithe Bells (Ramble on Sheep May Safely Graze)

Bach/Grainger – Fugue in E Major

Claude Debussy – Pour les Degres Chromatiques (Etude No. 7)

Franz Liszt – Transcendental Etude No. 10 in F minor

Jayson Gillham (25) was born in Australia, in the rural Queensland town of Dalby. From his early teens he travelled a 300-mile round trip to Brisbane each week for his piano lessons with Leah Horwitz at the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University. He enrolled in the Conservatorium’s Bachelor of Music programme at the age of 17, graduating with the Queensland Conservatorium Medal for performance and academic excellence in 2007.

Jayson relocated to the UK in September 2007, where he completed two years of postgraduate studies with Christopher Elton at the Royal Academy of Music, graduating with a Master of Arts degree with distinction and the DipRAM award. Jayson’s report from the Masters’ examination panel stated, “Phenomenal, perhaps the finest final recital we can remember.”

In October 2010, Jayson enjoyed great success in reaching the semi-finals of the Warsaw Chopin International Piano Competition. He is the first Australian to be able to claim such an achievement, in what is generally regarded as the greatest piano competition in the world. Broadcast live on television, radio and via the internet, Jayson’s performances in the Warsaw Philharmonic Hall were heard and praised by listeners from around the world. Competition critic Michael Moran remarked on Jayson’s playing: “The Australian Jayson Gillham I felt brought some much needed authentic Chopin expression... Marvellous ‘laid back’ approach to playing Chopin and a deep natural musicality. How refreshing... Reminded me at various moments so much of the moderation and taste of Arthur Rubinstein – qualities in very short supply during this competition.”

Jayson performs regularly across the UK, Europe and Australia. In May 2010, he made his American debut at Steinway Hall, New York. He is a regular performer at London’s Wigmore Hall and has appeared as soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as the major Australian orchestras. In June 2011, Jayson performed for the first time in China, playing two Mozart concertos with the Wuhan Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition to his many solo and concerto performances, Jayson is an enthusiastic chamber musician and lieder accompanist.

Other notable competition successes include: First prize Brant International Piano Competition (2011, Birmingham); First prize Australian National Piano Award (2008); First prize Prix d’Amadeo de Piano (2008, Aachen, Germany); Third prize London International Piano Competition (2005).

Brett Baker   (trombone)   2.50pm

Accompanist – Fenella Howarth

Lars-Erik Larsson – Concertino (Finale)

Jules Massenet – Meditation from Thais

Anonymous – Danse La Cleve

Rob Wiffin – Concerto (1st movement)

Charlotte Maclet   (violin)   3.10pm

Accompanist – Tom Blach

W. A. Mozart – Concerto No. 5 in A (1st movement)

Maurice Ravel – Tzigane

She went on to study with prestigious teachers such as Marie Annick Nicolas, Gabor Takacs and Gordan Nikolics. She obtained, between 2007 and 2009, her Soloist Diploma, her Postgrade Quartet Diploma, and her Masters in Education, all with Honors, at the Geneva Conservatory. Furthermore, she is a recipient of the MILOU Foundation and won the Mark Schwok Prize in 2008.

Charlotte has been performing in public from an early age: Mozart Symphonie Concertante with the XX Arrondissement Conservatory Orchestra in Paris (1999), Beethoven Concerto with the Orchestre des Jeunes de Rhénanie West Wesphalie at the Musique de Montflanquin Festival (2000), Mendelssohn Concerto with the Milwaukee Concord Chamber Orchestra (2001), première of a solo violin version of the Myths by Szymanovsky at the Ernest Ansermet Radio Hall in Geneva, Mozart G Major Concerto with the Geneva Conservatory Orchestra (2008) and Bach A minor Concerto in Paris and in London Cadogan Hall (2011).

A keen chamber musician, she performs regularly with various formations such as her piano trio, her string quartet, and Camerata Bellerive conducted by Gabor Takacs-Nagy. She has collaborated with composers such as Alfonso Montecino (piano trio première in Geneva, 2006), Henri Dutilleux (Ainsi la Nuit quartet in Victoria Hall, Geneva) and György Kurtag (Officium Breve at the Aix en Provence Festival, 2009).

In 2009 she created the Camerata Alma Viva, a string ensemble made up of fifteen musicians, which she leads from the violin.

Charlotte Maclet is since January 2011 leader of Southbank Sinfonia in London.

James Sherlock   (piano)   3.30pm

Robert Schumann – Romance in F sharp

J. S. Bach – Prelude and Fugue in F sharp BWV 848 (Book 1)

Henri Dutilleux – Choral et Variations Op. 1

James studied at Chetham's School of Music, Eton College and Trinity College Cambridge, where he was organ scholar. Having gained his Master's Degree, he continues under the tutelage of Joan Havill at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where his studies are supported by the Corporation of London and the Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors. He was a winner of BBC Fame Academy – The Next Generation and a Gold medallist at the Marcello Galanti competition.

In 2011, James was selected by Making Music and Park Lane Group for their Young Artist Programmes.

Telalit Charsky   (cello)   3.50pm

Accompanist – Tom Blach

Johannes Brahms – Sonata in E minor Op. 38 (1st movement)

Paul Ben-Haim – Music for cello solo

(1st movement – Moderato)

(2nd movement – Rather fast, lively)

Frank Bridge – Elegie and Spring Song

Edward Elgar – Cello Concerto in E minor (2nd movement)

Telalit Charskv (25) was born in Tel-Aviv, Israel. The youngest cellist to have won the 1st prize of the “Buchmann-Mehta” Competition, Telalit started her Bachelor degree at age 16 in an excellence program with Mr. Hillel Zori at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, Tel-Aviv University (in collaboration with the Israel Philharmonic). Among her prizes and awards are the 2003 Lions competition, 2006 Ben-Haim Israeli music competition, America Israel Cultural Foundation scholarships (1999-2006), Ronen Foundation, Solti Award and Zfunot Tarbut Award.

After participating in the London master classes at the RAM with Mr. Ralph Kirshbaum, he endowed her with a full scholarship to his distinguished class at the RNCM in Manchester. Getting ready for the trip, Telalit was rushed to hospital, where she was diagnosed with Juvenile Diabetes at an acute state. Coming out of hospitalization and the shock, Telalit was determined to do the plan as decided and fill the place saved for her in Mr. Kirshbaum's class. Telalit graduated at age 21 with distinction, having played with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and given recitals in and around Manchester.

During her time there, she received full support from the Manchester and London Jewish communities. Since then, Telalit is following her path in the music world, also coaching other youngsters stricken with illness or misfortune. Often with her sister pianist, she plays in hospitals for the mentally handicapped and exhausted. Telalit began playing the cello at the age of 4 under the instruction of Maayan Matityahu and Michael Bazrozum in the Israeli Conservatory of Music, Tel-Aviv.

From the age of 12, she was presented in numerous master classes playing for celebrated cellists such as Janos Starker, Bernard Greenhouse, Frans Helmerson, Richard Aaron, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Uzi Wiesel and Philip Muller. In 2001, she was invited on a full scholarship to the Interlochen Summer Festival for the “Advanced String Quartet Program” and was chosen to the “Perlman Music Program” in which she received private lessons with Maestro Perlman. Miss Charsky has been a regular participant in various international events, such as the Annual International Cello Seminar in the Jezreel Valley, the Authentic Music Festival in Jerusalem, the Biennale Festival for Contemporary Music, the London Master Classes at the RAM, the 2007 Manchester International Cello Festival, the International Holland Music Sessions, the 2008 International Chamber Music Festival in Eilat and the 2009 Kronberg Cello Festival. 2004 marked her debut as a soloist with the Thelma Yellin Symphony Orchestra on its European tour to Belgium and France. This concert tour was highlighted by her performance of the Beethoven Triple Concerto on a Gala benefit concert (for “Yad LaYeled” in The Ghetto Fighters' Museum) at the “Unesco” auditorium in Paris. She also performed with the Israel Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Noam Sheriff and with the Israel Symphony Orchestra (ISO) and with the NIK Chamber Orchestra.

Telalit has given recitals in France, Belgium, Holland, Moscow, NY and all the major concert series in Israel. She was featured at the Tel-Aviv University subscriptions series and is often recorded live for the “Voice of Music” channel - the Israel Broadcast Authority. In 2007, she was interviewed and recorded live for the BBC National Radio. She was chosen to be principal cellist at the 70th Birthday Gala concert of Maestro Zubin Mehta, at the Mann Auditorium in Tel-Aviv, which was broadcast for the Israeli National Radio and Television.

Telalit was in close contact with the cello master Bernard Greenhouse, who has decided to give her his cello for her solo career on which she plays today. She is presently studying at Zurich Academy of Music under the tutelage of Raphael Wallfisch.

Ugne Tiskute   (viola)   4.10pm

Accompanist – Alexandra Vadura

Krzysztof Penderecki – Cadenza per viola sola

York Bowen – Sonata No. 1 in C minor (1st movement)

Ugne Tiskute (22) was born in Lithuania and started her musical studies from the age of six, inspired by her mother's talent, who was her first teacher and her guidance throughout her life. Ugne gave her first solo performance when nine years old and that same year, was invited to play in the Grand Concert hosted in Vilnius City Hall. In 2009, upon graduating from the M.K.Ciurlionis Art School, she was awarded a scholarship by the Royal Academy of Music to continue her studies in London under the tutelage of Philip Dukes.

She has won first prizes in the National and international competitions; among them the Gradus ad Parnassum, Balys Dvarionas, Pavasario Sonata (chamber duo), A Dombrovski strings competition, R Katilius and Theodore viola competition.

She has been an active member of international youth orchestras, such as the Kodaly-Bartok Youth World Orchestra, Junges Music Podium Dresden - Venezia Baroque Orchestra, Unesco Jeunesses-Musicales World Orchestra.

Ugne has participated in various National and International Masterclasses with famous artists among whom were Pavel Berman, Wolfram Christ, Merja Soisaari Turiago, Hartmut Rohde, Jone Kaliunaite, Philip Dukes, Martin Outram, and Jerzy Kosmala.

Ugne has toured across Lithuania and Europe performing many concerts as a soloist, as well as playing chamber music at many UK venues.  She was selected this year for Encuentro de Musica y Santander summer academy. Ugne is presently continuing with her studies at the Royal Academy of Music.

Matthew Kam   (piano)   4.30pm

Einojuhani Rautavaara – “Fire Sermon” Piano Sonata No. 2 Op. 64 (1st movement)

Sergei Rachmaninov – Prelude in G Major Op. 32 No. 5

Fryderyk Chopin – Ballade No. 4 in F minor Op. 52

Irmina Trynkos   (violin)   4.50pm

Accompanist – Tom Blach

Henryk Wieniawski – “Faust” Fantasie Brillante on themes

                                   from Gounod's Faust Op. 20

William Kroll – Banjo and Fiddle

Aarne Ots   (trumpet)   5.50pm

Accompanist – Tom Blach

Vassily Brandt – Konzertstuck No. 2

Franz Schubert – Ave Maria

Hillar Kareva – Krusopraas

Giuseppe Tartini – Concerto in D (2nd and 3rd movements)

Aarne Ots (26) was born in Estonia. As his father Aavo Ots is a trumpet teacher at the Music Academy of Estonia and his mother is a piano accompanist, Aarne naturally started to make music. At the age of five, he began with violin, then at the age of eight, he started to play trumpet and also percussion until he was about twelve, when the trumpet became his only instrument.

Joining a youth big band when he was thirteen was his playing introduction to jazz and like classical and other musical styles before that, it became a way to express himself. Aarne has been influenced by many schools of trumpet such as German, Russian, American and Spanish together with the orchestral playing influences of Konradin Groth and Reinhold Friedrich and solo pieces mainly from Sergei Nakariakov, Reinhold Friedrich and Timofei Dokshitzer.

Aarne studied at Tallinn Music High School and under the tutelage of Aavo Ots. He was awarded a scholarship for IASJ Jazz Meeting in Helsinki in 2002; he won 1st prize in the Trumpet Talents International Competition in Tallinn biannually from 2004 to 2010; 1st prize and prize for best obligatory piece in the Andrej Jurjans International Wind Instruments Competition in Riga in 2006; 1st prize in the National Winds Competition in 2006 and was a finalist in the Yamaha Trumpet Competition in Hamburg in 2009.

He has participated in the Masterclasses of Konradin Groth, Reinhold Friedrich, Eric Aubier, Guy Touvron, Ruben Marques, Gabor Tarkövi, Youri Bolshiyanov, Gennady Nikonov, Fritz Damrow, Adan Delgado, Manuel Blanco Gomez, Steven Verhaerts and Hans Gansch.

Orchestras Aarne has played with include, amongst others, Balearic Symphony Orchestra in Spain; Latvian National Symphony Orchestra in Latvia; Lapland Chamber Orchestra in Finland; Estonian National Symphony Orchestra; Estonian National Opera and Tallinn Chamber Orchestra. He has performed as a soloist with the Ukrainian Chamber Orchestra and the Polish Chamber Philharmonic in Germany; Narva City Orchestra in Estonia and Finland; Võru Festival Orchestra.

The diverse music of Aarne Ots has been critically-acclaimed for expressive interpretation and virtuosity.

Huw Wiggin   (saxophone)   6.10pm

Accompanist – James Sherlock

Pedro Iturralde – Pequena Czarda

Benedetto Marcello – Concerto in C minor (arr. B. Joosen)

(2nd and 3rd movements)

Piet Swerts – Klonos

Huw Wiggin (25) was born in England. He is currently studying for a Master’s Degree in Performance at the Royal College of Music under Kyle Horch supported by a Dr Michael West award. He made his Purcell Room debut in January 2010 to great critical acclaim as a Park Lane Group New Year Artist. He then returned to the Purcell Room in October 2010 as a winner of a Martin Musical/Philharmonia Orchestra Scholarship Award. Recent successes include: winning the Philip and Dorothy Green Award run by Making Music; reaching the Woodwind final of the Royal Overseas League Annual Music Competition 2011; selected to appear in the Park Lane Group New Year Series 2010; ‘Star Award’ from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust.

He is presently performing throughout the UK as a selected artist on the prestigious Countess of Munster Musical Trust Recital Scheme. As a soloist, he has performed in many venues around the UK including St Martin-in-the-Fields, St James’ Church Piccadilly, the Purcell Room and St Margaret’s Church Westminster. He will be playing on Classic FM in summer 2012 and also making his debut at the Elgar Room in the Royal Albert Hall. Whilst studying in Germany, he formed the Caramboulage Saxophone Quartet and performed in many venues throughout Germany. In 2010, he was invited to perform Sinfonia Domestica with the European Union Youth Orchestra under Vladimir Ashkenazy and whilst studying at the Royal Northern College of Music, Huw was featured on many recordings with the RNCM Wind Orchestra.

Huw trained in Manchester at Chetham’s School of Music and further at the Royal Northern College of Music gaining a first class honours degree in 2008, graduating with a mark of 98% for his final recital; the highest mark ever to be awarded to a woodwind specialist. He then moved to study under Daniel Gauthier at the Musikhochschule, Köln in Germany with support from the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD).

Huw is very grateful for the support from the EMI Music Sound Foundation, the Musicians Benevolent Fund, The Countess of Munster Musical Trust, Henley Festival Trust and the Martin’s Musical Scholarship Fund.

Sean Riley   (violin)   6.30pm

Accompanist – Jennifer Mary Hughes

Bela Bartók – Sonata No. 1 (3rd movement – Allegro)

Pablo de Sarasate – Zigeunerweisen

Sean Riley (25) was born in the United States of America. As soloist and modern music proponent, he has given performances this year throughout the United States and Europe. His most recent engagements have been as a featured soloist in the “Infernal Dance: Inside the World of Bartok” Series in collaboration with the London Philharmonia and the Royal College of Music, The Sala Maria Cristina in Spain, Teatro all'Antica in Italy, the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York, and the Instituto Cervantes presented by New York radio station WQXR. Internationally, he has given performances in the United Kingdom, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, and the United States.

As an active performer of modern music, Riley was concertmaster of the New Perspectives Ensemble in London and the New Juilliard Ensemble. He premiered works with the Continuum Ensemble for the “Intersections” Series at Harvard, he performed at the Summer Garden Series presented by the Museum of Modern Art in New York and at the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery in Washington DC.

Recently he has attended such festivals as Kneisel Hall, Aspen Music Festival, Innsbrook, Great Mountains Music Festival in Korea, Cassalmaggiore in Italy, and Astona International in Switzerland. His teachers include Radu Blidar, Kyung-Wha Chung, Hyo Kang, Roland and Almita Vamos. Riley holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree from the Juilliard School in Violin Performance and will be receiving an Artist Diploma from the Royal College of Music in 2012.

Abigail Sin   (piano)   6.50pm

Domenico Scarlatti – Sonata in C sharp minor K.247

Fryderyk Chopin – Barcarolle Op. 60

Claude Debussy – L'Isle Joyeuse

Abigail Sin (19) was born in Singapore. She has appeared in concert halls across the globe, including Wigmore Hall, Salle Cortot and various venues in the USA, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Lithuania, Ukraine, Romania, Hong Kong and South-East Asia. She has performed with several orchestras such as the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Festival Orchestra, Philippines Philharmonic Orchestra, Armenian State Philharmonic Orchestra, Dnepropetrovsk Phiharmonic Orchestra, Kaunas Symphony Orchestra and the London Soloists Chamber Orchestra. Abigail's performances have been recorded and broadcast over national television and radio stations in Romania, Hong Kong, USA and Singapore.

Abigail has won a significant number of top prizes at various international piano competitions. In 2011, Abigail won the 3rd Prize, the Audience Prize and the Students' Prize at the Lagny-sur-Marne International Piano Competition in France. Other recent accolades include the GSMD's Romantic Piano Prize and The McCallum Prize for a pianist of promise at the Royal Over-Seas League Annual Music Competition. Abigail also won top prizes at the Viardo (USA), Krainev (Ukraine), Schimmel (USA), Virginia Waring USA), Ibiza (Spain), Individualis (Ukraine) and ASEAN Chopin competitions. In December 2009, Abigail became South-East Asia's first Young Steinway Artist.

In 2009, Abigail was honoured at the inaugural President's Command Performance in Singapore alongside prominent Singaporean artists such as legendary avant-garde pianist Margaret Leng Tan. Abigail has also performed at numerous state functions, including a recital at the Singapore Embassy in Washington D.C. and a state banquet at the Istana for HRH Queen Elizabeth II. She has performed for charity on several occasions, including the ChildAid concert in 2009, which raised more than a million dollars for the Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund and the Business Times Budding Artist Fund.

In 2007 and again in 2010, Abigail was one of eight pianists selected to participate in the prestigious Verbier Festival Academy in Switzerland. She has also attended masterclasses at L'Academie Musicale de Villecroze, the Banff Summer Arts Festival, the Oxford Philomusica International Piano Festival and Academy, Bowdoin International Music Festival and the International Festival of Young Musicians in Lithuania, where she was awarded a prize for “Most Outstanding Performer”. Abigail has benefitted from master classes with eminent musicians such as Leon Fleisher, Claude Frank, Dmitri Bashkirov, Murray Perahia, Menahem Pressler, Stephen Kovacevich, Emanuel Ax, Dominique Merlet, Melvyn Tan, Joseph Kalichstein and Gabor Takács-Nagy.

Abigail studied with Professor Thomas Hecht at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore. A National Arts Council scholar, she graduated with 1st Class Honours and was awarded the Lee Kuan Yew Gold Medal as the top student of her cohort. During her undergraduate studies, Abigail spent one semester as an exchange student at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA. She was also involved in the “La Loingtaine” Project, a selective chamber music initiative organised by the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory and the Peabody Institute, culminating in a concert in October 2008, where Abigail performed Olivier Messiaen's monumental Quartet for the End of Time.

Abigail is currently a postgraduate student of Joan Havill at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Abigail is a recipient of the National Arts Council Arts Scholarship (Overseas) 2010 and gratefully acknowledges the support of Ken Ollerton and Jane Rigler, the Derek Butler Trust, the Alec Beecheno Bursary and the Music Students' Hostel Trust.

Daniel Broncano   (clarinet)   7.10pm

Accompanist – Johannes Mnich

photo: Alex Rumford

Carl Maria von Weber – Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F minor

(1st movement – Allegro)

Jean Françaix – Tema con Variazoni

Mariano Mores – Taquito Militar, milonga (arr. Daniel Broncano)

Daniel Broncano (24) was born in Madrid and studied there with Justo Sanz and in Paris with Nicolas Baldeyrou. Acclaimed for his “dazzling virtuosity” and “inventive playing”, he is rapidly emerging as an exciting young soloist and recitalist. He has recently been the recipient of numerous awards and prizes: Making Music Award for Young Concert Artists (2011), the Madrid Youth Orchestra Soloists' Competition, the Clarinet and Saxophone Society Competition (2010), the Trinity Soloists' Competition (2010), the Wilfred Hambleton Chamber Music Award (2010) and the Albox Chamber Music Contest (2005, Spain) amongst others.

Daniel's performances as a soloist include the Nielsen Clarinet Concerto Trinity Symphony Orchestra and Weber's 1st Clarinet Concerto with the Iuventas Orchestra. He has also recorded the Copland Clarinet Concerto for BBC3 and has appeared as a soloist at the Aberystwyth Music Festival 2011 with the Orion Symphony Orchestra performing Spohr's 4th Clarinet Concerto. As a passionate contemporary music performer, he has given the world première of Jekyll's Confession for solo clarinet by Jesus Aranda.

His wide recital experience has been shaped together with the German pianist Johannes Mnich. The Broncano and Mnich Duo has performed extensively in the UK, Spain and Germany. Daniel has recently performed with other chamber groups including the Erdesz Quartet, the Billroth Ensemble and the Mocanu Trio. He has also appeared with Chroma Ensemble, Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Sound Collective and the Chipping Campden Festival Academy Orchestra. He has been a member of the Madrid Youth Orchestra, the Spanish National Youth Orchestra and the Young Musicians' Symphony Orchestra.

Daniel has recently finished a Masters' Course at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance studying clarinet with Joan Enric Lluna and Michael Whight; he is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma at Royal College of Music thanks to an Ibercaja Young Musicians Scholarship.

Alon Sariel   (mandolin)   7.30pm

Accompanist – Tom Blach

J. S. Bach – Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor

Ernest Bloch – Nigun from 3 Pictures of Chassidic Life

Gjlad Hochman – Under Torn Skies from Two Episodes for mandolin solo

Alon Sariel (25) was born in Israel. He graduated from the Jerusalem Music Academy and specialized at the Brussels Royal Conservatory and Hochschule fur Musik Teater und Media in Hannover. During his studies at the Jerusalem Academy, he won first prize in the Chamber Music Competition, the Competition for String Instruments and the Conducting Competition.

He was awarded the Audience Prize in the name of Meira Gera at the Aviv Competitions in Early Music and a special recommendation from the Jury of the Ben-Halm Competition for Contemporary Israeli Music. As a classical mandolin player, he has won top prizes at the European Mandolin Award in Greece and the Rafaelle Calace Competition in Italy. Sariel was granted study scholarships from the America-Israel Foundation during the period 2002-08. He has also received the Chais Foundation Excellence Grant, Sarni Foundation Scholarships and a special grant from the “Zfunot Tarbut” Foundation.

Recently, he has won both 1st prize at the Bloch competition and 2nd prize at the Israeli Music competition in London, which will be followed by performances with Imaestri Orchestra and the London International Orchestra together with recitals in some of London's important venues. Sariel has played solo with most of the high rank orchestras in Israel, many times also as a conductor.

As a member of Daniel Barenboim's West Eastern Divan Orchestra, as well as with several other ensembles, Sariel has toured throughout Europe, the Far East, the Middle East and North America. He has lectured and conducted master classes in Israel, Europe, the USA and in prestigious schools such as Trinity College of Music, London.

Sariel has recorded for labels such as Naxos and Albany Records (USA), has played live on the BBC and the Israeli Educational TV, his playing can be heard on “Kol Hamusika” and WNYC. His Handel recording with the soprano Ania Vegry has won the German BOBBY prize.

Together with other talented international students Sariel has founded the Hannover International Ensemble which is making its name as one of the attractive and interesting young ensembles in the region. Sariel regularly directs the Israeli Early Music Project, which he has founded in order to promote the Historically Informed Performance in Israel.

Today, Sariel is Musical Director and Conductor of the Camerata Medica and the Jugend Symphony Orchester in Göttingen, and is teaching regularly at the Cambridge Performance Masterclasses.

Next season's engagements include a concert of music by C.P.E Bach, Webern and Stockhausen with the Münich Chamber Orchestra, Mozart's Magic Flute with the Israeli Early Music Project and Copland's Appalachian Spring with the Hannover International Ensemble and the Jerusalem Dance Theater. Also, he will be assisting Maestro Roberto Gini at the Laussane Baroque Orchestra.