Tamar Halperin
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Born | 1976 (age 47–48) Tel Aviv, Israel |
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Spouse | Andreas Scholl |
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Tamar Halperin (born 1976) is an Israeli harpsichordist, pianist and musicologist. She has played Baroque music in historically informed performance, but also classical repertory and jazz with a big band.
Career
Born in Tel Aviv,[1] Halperin grew up in Israel and first pursued a career as a tennis player.[2] She studied music at the Tel Aviv University and continued her studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with a focus on historically informed performance. She obtained her PhD at the Juilliard School in New York City on Johann Sebastian Bach.[3]
She specialises in Baroque music, but also pursues projects of contemporary music.[4] She recorded with the jazz pianist Michael Wollny the album Wunderkammer which was awarded the Echo Jazz in the category piano album in 2010. She recorded a sequel, Wunderkammer XXL, with Wollny and the hr-Bigband which was awarded the Echo Jazz in the category big band. She played harpsichord and celesta with Wollny at the Jazzfest Bonn 2014.[5]
In 2011, she played works by Bach on the harpsichord at the
The Hessian Cultural Prize 2016 was awarded to both Halperin and Scholl by Volker Bouffier, the Minister-president of Hesse.[4] Michael Herrmann spoke at the event about both artists as crossing borders.[8]
Awards
- 1998–2000: scholarship of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation[3]
- 2004: Ehrenpreis of the Van Vlaanderen Musica Antiqua Brugge Competition[3]
- 2005: Presser Award[3]
- 2006: REC Music Award[3]
- 2006 and 2007: Eisen-Picard Performing Arts Award[3]
- 2010 and 2014: Echo Jazz, for her "Wunderkammer" productions with Michael Wollny[9][10]
- 2016: Hessischer Kulturpreis (with her husband Andreas Scholl)[4]
References
- ^ "Müzik dünyasında bir İsrailli Tamar Halperin" (in Turkish). arsiv.salom.com. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
- ^ a b Scheiner, Jonathan (13 May 2012). "Projekt der Pianistin Tamar Halperin / Satie als zeitgenössischer Kammer-Jazz". Deutschlandradio Kultur (in German). Retrieved 8 November 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Tamar Halperin" (in German). Schubertiade Vorarlberg. 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
- ^ a b c "Hessischer Kulturpreis 2016 geht an Tamar Halperin und Andreas Scholl" (in German). Hessische Staatskanzlei. 10 October 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
- ^ "Michael Wollny / Tamar Halperin" (in German). Jazzfest Bonn. 2014. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
- ^ Zibulski, Axel (19 July 2011). "Musikalischer Klang mit Idee". Wiesbadener Kurier (in German).
- ^ Ashley, Tim (20 November 2012). "Andreas Scholl/Tamar Halperin – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
- ^ "Hessian cultural award to Andreas Scholl and Tamar Halperin / The Pianist Tamar Halperin and the Countertenor Andreas Scholl were awarded the Hessian Cultural Prize 2016". Rheingau Musik Festival. 2016. Archived from the original on 9 November 2016. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
- ^ "Hintergrund". echojazz.de. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
- ^ "Hochkaräter und Überraschungen: / Die Preisträger des ECHO Jazz 2014" (PDF) (in German). echojazz.de. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
External links
- Tamar Halperin at AllMusic
- Tamar Halperin Neue Meister
- Tamar Halperin Heidelberger Frühling