ISRAELI PIANO DUO

ISRAELI PIANO DUO.

The Embassy of Israel and Ibycus present a "Four-Hand Piano Recital" by a pair of well-established Israeli pianists, Sivan Silver and Gil Garburg, at The Sukhothai Hotel on Jan 25 at 8pm.

The duo will play classical pieces by the likes of Schubert and Stravinsky as well as Mendelssohn's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

Sivan Silver, aged 30, and Gil Garburg, who's a year older, are graduates of the Thelma Yellin High School for the Arts. They studied at the Rubin Music Academy at Tel-Aviv University and are studying for their solo degree with Prof Arie Vardi at the Hochschule fur Musik und Theatre in Hanover, Germany. Both were recipients of America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarships.

They are first prize winners of numerous national and international competitions, both as soloists and as a duo.

They have won the first prize at more than a dozen competitions, among them the Brahms International Competition and the Hanover Musikhochschule Wettbewerb in Germany; Franco Gulli Prix, IBLA Grand Prize, Viotti Valsessia and Citta di Pavia international competitions in Italy and the Goralnik, Katcz, Clairmont and the Tel-Aviv Rubin Music Academy competitions in Israel.

Sivan and Gil founded the Silver-Garburg Piano Duo in 1997. They have performed extensively in nearly 40 countries including Thailand in 2002 and played in venues such as Carnegie Hall and with orchestras such as the Israel Philharmonic. Their experience on the international stage has gained them enthusiastic acclaim from audiences and critics alike.

Tickets cost 1,000 baht and are available at Ibycus (tel 02-932-9208) or email ibycusmusic@yahoo.com.

Bangkok Post
Friday January 12, 2007