Daniel Gortler
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Education and early life
Born and raised in Israel, Gortler began studying classical music and piano with Naomi Hachohen. He graduated from the Rubin Music Academy in Tel-Aviv and continued his musical studies at the Musikhochschule Hannover, studying Arie Vardi.[1]
Gortler was faculty member of the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel-Aviv University until 2011. From 2011 to 2013, he was a guest artist in piano studies in the Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions at New York University's Steinhardt School.[2]
Career
As a soloist, Gortler has performed with orchestras including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Bochum Orchestra, the New World Symphony Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Huston Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony as well as orchestras in Brazil and South Africa.[3][4] He has worked with conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Christoph Eschenbach, Valery Gergiev and Michael Tilson Thomas.[5]
Gortler has performed in festivals such as the Montpellier Festival, Lucerne Festival and Israel Festival. A collaboration with Pinchas Zukerman resulted in an original video recording of Marc Neikrug's "Through Roses".[1]
Gortler has performed chamber music with artists including Nikolaj Znaider, Bo Skovhus, Steven Isserlis, Sergey Ostrovsky, Daniel Johannsen, David Garrett, the Shanghai Quartet and the Jupiter Quartet.[6][4]
Personal life
Gortler is gay, and his life partner is architect Charles Renfro.[7]
Awards
- Third place – Geneva International Piano Competition[6]
Recordings
Gortler has recorded several albums with Romeo Records:
- Songs without Words[8]
- Schubert Lieder with Sharon-Rostorf Zamir[9]
- Schumann: Symphonic Etudes & Faschingsschwank aus Wien[10]
In 2023, Gortler released his debut album with Prospero Classical, featuring a selection of Edvard Grieg's Lyric Pieces. The album, titled "Daniel Gortler plays Edvard Grieg - Lyric Pieces," includes 21 of Gortler's personal favorites from Grieg's collection of 66 short character pieces.[11]
References
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External links
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- Living people
- Israeli classical pianists
- Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover alumni
- Musicians from Tel Aviv
- Academic staff of Tel Aviv University
- Israeli male classical pianists
- 21st-century Israel classical pianists
- 20th-century male musicians
- 21st-century male musicians
- 1965 births
- Gay Jews
- Israeli gay musicians