Sunday, June 2nd 2024 5pm
:
Young Masters Concert in Konzil Konstanz with UM-prizewinners of 2022/23: Simone Ceppetelli (violoncello), Pierina Däppen (violin), Teresa Gᶏsieniec (violoncello), Artem Markaryan (piano) and Mateusz
Tomica (piano) and with Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz conducted by Eckart Manke.The winner Yang Wu (piano) will perform in 2025.
15th Uttwil Masterclasses 2024:
August 25th - September 1st 2024 with
Benjamin Moser
(piano),
Andrej Bielow
(violin) and
Danjulo Ishizaka
(violoncello) Accompanists:
İris Şentürker
(violin course) and
Carl Wolf
(violoncello course)
Player
Sergey Ostrovsky
is The First Concertmaster of Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva.
Sergey Ostrovsky – first violinist and the founder of the Aviv String Quartet, is a winner of the 3rd Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition (1999, Grand Prix and 4 Special Prizes), Bordeaux String Quartet Competition (2003), Aviv National Music Competition (1999, Tel Aviv) and other top prizes: Schubert and Modernity Competition (2003, Graz, Austria, 2nd Prize and Schubert Prize) and Rodolfo Lipizer Violin Competition (Italy, 1995).
Sergey Ostrovsky performed as a quartet member and as a soloist at internationally renowned venues such as Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall (New York), Kennedy Centre and The Library of Congress (Washington), Wigmore Hall and Royal Festival Hall (London), Tonhalle (Zurich), Auditorium du Louvre, Theatre du Chatelet, and Theatre de la Ville (Paris), De Doelen Rotterdam, Sydney Opera House, Capetown City Hall, Durban Concert Hall, Cologne Philharmonie, Beethoven House (Bonn, Germany) Wiener Konzerthouse, Tchaikovsky Hall of Moscow Conservatory, Valensia Concert Hall and other venues in Israel, Germany, Austria, England, France, Ireland, Holland, China, Canada, Portugal, South Africa, Brazil etc.
As a soloist Sergey performed with orchestras such as Israel Philharmonic, Cape Philharmonic (Capetown), Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Durban Nathal Philharmonic, Moscow Philharmonic, Johannesburg Philharmonic, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Israel Kibbutz Orchestra, Young Israel Philharmonic, Amadeus Chamber Orchestra (Poland) Nizhny Novgorod (Gorky) Philharmonic, Beer Sheva Sinfonet and Tel Aviv Soloists ensemble under the baton of Philippe Entremont, Zeev Dorman, Uriel Segal, Doron Solomon, Barak Tal, Vag Papyan, Alexander Vedernikov, Alexander Skulsky, Vladimir Ziva, Yaron Gotfried, En Shao, Li Xincao, Agnezska Duzmal, Ovidiu Balan and Omri Hadari.
Sergey Ostrovsky was born in 1975 in Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod) to a family of musicians. He began playing violin at the age of 6, and studied with David Lapidus as his first teacher. He made his first concert appearances at the age of 8, and performed for a first time with a symphony orchestra at the age of 13.
In the Music College of Gorky Conservatory he continued his studies with Lazar Gantman and Yury Gluchovsky, and in 1990 won his first prize in the Russian National Competition in Tver. In 1991 immigrated to Israel with his family and continued his studies with Prof. Yair Kless and Irina Svetlova at the Rubin Academy of Music of Tel Aviv University (since 2005 renamed The Buchmann-Mehta School of Music) During 1993-98 Sergey served as a concertmeister of several Israeli orchestras, such as The Israeli Chamber Orchestra, The Israeli Kibbutz Orchestra, Young Israel Philharmonic, and during his Army Service-Principal violinist of Israel Army Chamber Orchestra.
In 1996 Sergey founded the Aviv Quartet which relocated to Europe to study with the members of Alban Berg Quartet in Cologne Hochschule (1998-2000), and with members of Daniel Quartet in Rotterdam Conservatory, where Sergey completed his Bachelor Degree Diploma with Natalia Morozova in 2000, and his Master Degree Diploma in Amsterdam Conservatory with Alexander Kerr in 2002.
Sergey participated in Master Classes with Isaac Stern, Hermann Krebers, Rainer Kussmaul, Zachar Bron, Dorothy Delay, Ivry Gitlis, Ida Haendel, members of Amadeus Quartet, La Salle Quartet, Julliard Quartet, Emerson Quartet and Ysaye Quartet.
During the years 1992-2001 Sergey won scholarships from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation.
Sergey Ostrovsky plays on a 1716 Grancinno violin, which was purchased with the support of Mr. James Mayer and Zfunot Tarbut – non profit organization for arts and artists in Israel.
In February 2006 Sergey Recorded together with the violinist Maxim Vengerov, and The Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, Mozart Concertone for two violins for EMI Classics.
