Igor Malinovsky & Itamar Golan
Biography Igor Malinovsky & Itamar Golan
Igor Malinovsky
received his first violin lessons, as a six-year-old, from Vladimir Milstein in Yekaterinburg. From 1992 to 1997 he studied with Dora Schwarzberg and Gerhard Schulz at Vienna’s University of Music and Performing Arts. In 1998 he pursued further studies with Zakhar Bron at the Cologne and Zurich Music Conservatories. At the age of 24, he was already first concertmaster of the Bavarian State Orchestra, where, until 2005, he worked under the baton of General Music Director Zubin Mehta.
In 2005, he accepted the position of first concertmaster with the Komische Oper Berlin and also became first concertmaster with the Orquesta de la Comunidad Valenciana, a position he held until 2010. Igor Malinovsky has been a prizewinner at eight international competitions, among them the First Inter national "Madeira Music Festival" Violin Competition, the International Demidov Competition, the Grand Prix at the Diaghilev Competition and the International Pablo Saraste Competition.
Igor Malinovsky has not only pursued a career as an orchestral instrumentalist and soloist, but can also look back on an active career as a teacher. He has been a professor at the Carl Maria von Weber Conservatory in Dresden since 2009, and also taught as a visiting professor at the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu in Barcelona. As founder of the Dresdner Residenz Konzerte, he initiated the successful Gala Concerts series in the Marble Hall of Dresden’s Zwinger Palace in April 2013.
Itamar Golan
Concert pianist Itamar Golan performs with renowned soloists and ensembles throughout the world, and has established himself as an exceptional chamber musician. Born in Vilnius, Lithuania, at the age of one, he emigrated to Israel, where he later studied piano with Lara Vodovoz and Emmanuel Krasovsky, and performed in his first recital at the age of seven. From 1985 to 1989, he studied at the New England Conservatory in Boston under Leonard Shure and Patricia Zander and later studied chamber music with Chaim Taub. Itamar Golan has received scholarships from the America Israel Cultural Foundation several times. He continued his studies at the Manhattan School of Music from 1991 to 1994.
Itamar Golan concentrates almost exclusively on chamber music: His chamber music partners have included Barbara Hendricks, Maxim Vengerov, Tabea Zimmermann, Ida Haendel, Shlomo Mintz, Julian Rachlin and Sharon Kam. He regularly performs at important international music festivals such as the Ravinia, Chicago, Tanglewood, Salzburg, Edinburgh, Besançon, Ludwigsburg, Verbier and Lucerne festivals. Itamar Golan has already appeared as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta. He also teaches chamber music at the Paris Conservatory.
