Ishay Shaer, pianist www.ishayshaer.com

"A brilliant success… superbly articulate and always intact and brilliantly focused… achieved with most judiciously managed colour and character, and with a more than impressive sense of underlying turbulence." Bryce Morrison, Music critic "…an outstanding Chopin player, investing the Sonata No 3 with the delicacy and power it demands by halting the pace so convincingly in the largo that the first movement’s intensity, the scherzo’s frenetic revisions and the final one’s relentless gallop sounded truly inspired." Nigel Jarrett, South Wales Argus "…Everything which the Israeli pianist Ishay Shaer delivered had fluency and grace". Michael Church, "Classical Music Magazine" "Shaer treats the composer’s allusions by "reading" both the musical and the literary texts: Asking questions, providing answers, leading dialogues, meditating, narrating or being impulsively enthusiastic. Ideas that seem as though they develop at the very moment give his interpretation of the piece a persuasive originality". Fritz Herzog, "General-Anzeiger Bonn"

Born in 1983, Ishay Shaer is one of the leading young Israeli pianists. He has performed in numerous concerts throughout the world and has won both national and international prizes. His recent performances include, among others, recitals at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Purcell Room, UK; Warsaw Philharmonic Hall, Poland; Preston Bradley Hall in Chicago USA; Sala Sinfonica Pablo Casals in Puerto Rico; and Teatro Solís, Uruguay. He has taken part in the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series, London Mill Hill Music Club, Swansea Festival of Music and Arts, Sociedad Filarmónica de Lima, Semanas Musicales de Frutillar (Chile), Demetria Festival in Greece (with the New Hellenic Quartet) and "Kol Hamusica in the Upper Galilee" Festival in Israel. In addition, he has collaborated as a soloist with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt in Germany and with the major Israeli orchestras. In April 2011, following a direct recommendation Maestro Daniel Barenboim had given to Maestro Zubin Mehta, Mr. Shaer was called on a two days notice to substitute for Fazil Say with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. This led to six subsequent concerts in the orchestra's subscription series, four of them at Israel's main concert hall, the 2700-seat Mann Auditorium. Nearly six months later he made his debut at the grand hall of the Tonhalle Zurich, performing with Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne to earn critical acclaim in various media outlets, including the German magazine "Das Orchester": "Embedded in the orchestral sound, almost overshined by playful joy, Ishay Shaer plays Concerto KV 488 in A Major expressively, with a differentiated touch, a soul deep articulation and a thrilling phrasing. A storyteller who knows his Mozart well." In 2006, Ishay Shaer won the first prize in the Newport International Competition in the UK, and a year later was awarded third prize in the "Silvio Bengalli" International Piano Competition in Italy. During 2008 he won three national competitions, among them the prestigious Clairmont prize. In 2009 he was a prizewinner at the International Beethoven Competition in Bonn, and performed with the renowned cellist Mischa Maisky. Throughout the years, Mr. Shaer has been supported by prestigious organizations, such as the America-Israel Cultural Foundation and the Swiss Orpheum Foundation, being included in its promotion programme for young soloists. He began piano studies at the age of 7 with Mrs. Hanna Barzilai and later studied with Dr. Asaf Zohar. He has studied in the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music of Tel Aviv University (in cooperation with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra) with Prof. Tomer Lev and thereafter with Prof. Arie Vardi, and finished his Bachelor's degree with distinction. Concurrently, he took part in master-classes with renowned artists, such as Murray Perahia, Matti Raekallio and Pnina Salzman.

His acclaimed debut CD (with Chopin's third sonata, Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit and Schumann Etudes Symphoniques) has been broadcast, since its release in 2008, in the major Israeli radio stations, and was recommended by Noam Ben-Zeev, the music critic of "Haaretz" newspaper. The CD was also broadcast in American radio stations, where it was described by the Texas Public Radio as "Great music preformed by a great pianist that you do not want to miss".

Ishay Shaer has been invited by Maestro Shlomo Mintz to perform at the prestigious Sion Festival (Switzerland) in 2012. Other upcoming engagements include concerto performances with Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra, Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. He will also perform recitals in the UK (Chamber music concert with Contempo Quartetet for Mill Hill Music Club and solo performance at the Royal Nottingham Concert Hall), Belgium (deSingel Concert Hall in Antwerp) Chile (re-engagement at Festival Semanas Musicales de Frutillar), Germany (Piano trio at the Kammermusiktage Mettlach) and Israel (with principal cellist of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Micha Haran). CONTACT for North America, Asia, Pacific :: Elisabeth COMTOIS, AGENCE STATION BLEUE 4713 Papineau, Montréal, Québec, Canada H2H 1V4 T +1 514-273-3093 F + 1 514-273-9026 e.comtois@stationbleue.com / elisabeth.comtois@gmail.com www.stationbleue.com

ISHAY SHAER, pianist Important Past Concerts

Kol Hamusica in the Upper Galilee" Festival' Israel (2003) Swansea Festival of Music and Arts, UK, 2006 Semanas Musicales de Frutillar, Chile, 2011,2012 Demetria Festival, Greece, 2011 Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London, UK, 2009 (1000 seats) Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London, UK, 2009 Cheltenham Town Hall, UK, 2010 (1000 seats) St. George's Bristol, UK, 2010, 2012 Warsaw Philharmonic Hall, Poland, 2010 (1000 seats) Preston Bradley Hall, Chicago USA, 2011 (live broadcast recital) Sala Sinfónica Pablo Casals in Puerto Rico, 2011, 2012 (1300 seats) Teatro Solís, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2011 Sociedad Filarmónica de Lima, Peru, 2011 Tonhalle Zurich, Switzerland 2011 (1455 seats – with Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne) Mann Auditorium Tel Aviv, Israel (2700 seats – with Israel Philharmonic Orchestra) Haifa Auditorium, Israel, 2011 (1450 seats) Henry Crown Hall, Jerusalem Theatre, Israel, 2012 (live broadcast recital) Thessaloniki Concert Hall, Greece (1400 seats)

Future engagements, 2012-13: June 17, 2012: Kammermusiktage Mettlach, Mettlach, Saarland, Germany September 2, 2012: Sion Festival, Sion, Switzerland (Artistic Director: Shlomo Mintz. Other participating performers: Boris Berezovsky, Maria João Pires) October 27, 2012: Concerto with Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra, Pablo Casals Symphony Hall, San Juan, Puerto Rico (with the orchestra's artistic director, Maximiano Valdés) November 22-23, 2012: Concerto with Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain (two subscription series concerts with conductor Marco Guidarini)

December 9, 2012: Solo Recital, Strabrecht Theater, Geldrop, The Netherlands April 7, 2013: Chamber Music Concert (Piano Quintet and Trio) with the ConTempo String Quartet, Mill Hill Music Club, London, UK (Additional concerts may be added around that date) May 6, 2013: deSingel Concert Hall, Antwerp, Belgium (Additional concerts may be added around that date) May 29, 2013: Concerto with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Henry Crown Hall, Jerusalem Theater, Israel (with the orchestra's artistic director Frédéric Chaslin. This concert will be part of the Israel Festival)

Undated Engagements for 2013: Nottingham Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham, UK (2499 seats) Concerto with Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga, Spain (with principal conductor, Edmon Colomer) Concerto with Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Germany (with principal conductor, Howard Griffiths) Bayreuther Osterfestival, Bayreuth, Germany Concert de Midi de la ville de Liège, Belgium Prague Proms Festival, Czech Republic

Ishay Shaer – www.ishayshaer.com

REPERTOIRE

SOLO REPERTOIRE J. S. Bach Das Wohltemperierte Klavier - Book I Prelude & Fugue no. 1 in C Prelude & Fugue no. 5 in D Prelude & Fugue no. 6 in D minor Prelude & Fugue no. 9 in E Prelude & Fugue no. 17 in A-flat Das Wohltemperierte Klavier - Book II Prelude & Fugue no. 6 in D minor Prelude & Fugue no. 9 in E Prelude & Fugue no. 14 in F-sharp minor Toccata in C minor, BWV 911 Toccata in E minor, BWV 914 English Suite no. 2 in A minor, BWV 807 Partita no. 1 in B-flat, BWV 825 Partita no. 2 in C minor, BWV 826 Italian Concerto in F, BWV 971

D. Scarlatti Sonata in D, K. 96 Sonata in B minor, K. 197 Sonata in G, K. 427 F. J. Haydn Sonata in E minor, Hob. XVI/34 Sonata in D, Hob.XVI/37 W. A. Mozart Sonata in E-flat, K. 282 Sonata in A minor, K. 310 Sonata in C, K. 330 Sonata in F, K. 332

L. v. Beethoven Sonata no. 1 in F minor, Op. 2 no. 1 Sonata no. 7 in D, Op. 10 no. 3 Sonata no. 9 in E, Op. 14 no. 1 Sonata no. 15 in D, Op. 28 Sonata no. 16 in G, Op. 31 no. 1 Sonata no. 17 in D minor, Op. 31 no. 2 Sonata no. 20 in G, Op. 49 no. 2 Sonata no. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 Sonata no. 24 in F-sharp, Op. 78 Sonata no. 27 in E minor, Op. 90

Sonata no. 30 in E, Op. 109 Seven Bagatelles, Op. 33 Eleven Bagatelles, Op. 119 Six Bagatelles, Op. 126 6 Variations in G, on the duet "Nel cor più non mi sento", WoO 70 32 Variations in C minor, WoO 80 Andante favori, WoO 57 Presto in C minor, WoO 52 Allegretto in C, WoO 56

F. Schubert Sonata in B, D. 575 Sonata in C minor, D. 958 4 Impromptus, Op. 90 Impromptu in F minor, Op. 142 no. 4 F. Chopin 12 Etudes, Op. 10 12 Etudes, Op. 25 24 Preludes, Op. 28 Nocturne no. 9 in B, Op. 32 no. 1 Nocturne no. 16 in E-flat, Op. 55 no. 2 Impromptu no. 1 in A-flat, Op. 29 Polonaise in F-sharp minor, Op. 44 Polonaise-Fantasie in A-flat, Op. 61

Waltzes and Mazurkas: Selection Scherzo no. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 31 Ballade no. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 Ballade no. 2 in F, Op. 38 Ballade no. 3 in A-flat, Op. 47 Ballade no. 4 in F minor, Op. 52 Fantasie in F minor, Op. 49 Sonata no. 3 in B minor, Op. 58

R. Schumann Kinderscenen, Op. 15 Etudes Symphoniques, Op. 13

Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26 Novelette Op. 21 no. 8

F. Liszt Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este Etude de concert no. 2: La Leggierezza H. Berlioz/F. Liszt Symphony Fantastique - II. Un Bal "The Maiden's Wish": Variations on a theme by Chopin M. Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

J. Brahms 7 Fantasies, Op. 116 2 Rhapsodies, Op. 7

C. Debussy Images, Book I Images, Book II Estampes Préludes: Sélection Etudes: Sélection M. Ravel Jeux d'eau Gaspard de la Nuit A. Berg Sonata, Op. 1

B. Bartók Out of Doors

S. Prokofiev Sonata no. 3, Op. 28 Sonata no. 6, Op. 82 Sonata no. 7, Op. 83 I. Stravinsky 3 movements from Petrouchka

I. Albeniz El Puerto and Triana from "Iberia" Suite

A. Piazzolla Milonga del Angel

P. Boulez 12 Notations pour piano

H. Somers Piano Sonata No. 1

Concerto Repertoire W. A. Mozart Concerto no. 17 in G, K. 453 Concerto no. 20 in D minor, K. 466 Concerto no. 21 in C, K. 467 Concerto no. 23 in A, K. 488 Concerto no. 24 in C minor, K. 491 Concerto no. 27 in B-flat, K. 595 L. v. Beethoven Concerto no. 1 in C, Op. 15 Concerto no. 2 in B-flat, Op. 19 Concerto no. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 Concerto no. 4 in G, Op. 58 Concerto no. 5 in E-flat, Op. 73 F. Mendelssohn Concerto no. 1 in G minor, Op. 25 F. Chopin Concerto no. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 Concerto no. 2 in F minor, Op. 21 R. Schumann Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 J. Brahms Concerto no. 1 in D minor, Op. 15 Concerto no. 2 in B-flat, Op. 83 P. I. Tchaikovsky Concerto no. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23 E. Grieg Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 M. Ravel Concerto in G Concerto for the Left Hand in D major

Ishay Shaer, The Riverfront (From South Wales Guardian) http://www.southwalesguardian.co.uk/search/3963110.Ishay_Shaer__The_Riverfront/

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Ishay Shaer, The Riverfront

By Nigel Jarrett »

4:42pm Tuesday 9th December 2008

As bad luck or bad planning would have it, prize-winning pianist Ishay Shaer gave the ‘wrong’ audience the more formal of his considerable talents this week through no fault of his own.

The current winner of the triennial Newport International Competition for Young Pianists appeared in the city of his 2006 triumph for a lunchtime appearance, heading for Cardiff the following night for a longer and more measured evening recital.

It was back-to-front for whatever reason and deprived Newport of due ceremony if not sixty minutes of superlative, if somewhat breathless, music-making.

As recompense, the Riverfront made an event of it by regaling its Studio space with impressive drapes and floral displays.

The 25-year-old Israeli was more than worth it, taking little rest in his programme of Scarlatti, Beethoven and Chopin but demanding that his audience remain alert in exchange for a necessarily whirlwind presentation.

This confirmed that he was an outstanding Chopin player, investing the Sonata No 3 with the delicacy and power it demands by halting the pace so convincingly in the largo that the first movement’s intensity, the scherzo’s frenetic revisions and the final one’s relentless gallop sounded truly inspired.

This refusal to shrink from the music’s worked-up core also made the Ballade No 3 memorable, despite a slip at the very beginning, and there was rigour aplenty in two Domenico Scarlatti sonatas and Beethoven’s Sonata No 30 in E, all well-known pieces rendered with a refreshing lack of over-familiarity.

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Classical review: Ishay Shaer, Etnahta, Jerusalem Theater By URY EPPSTEIN 05/29/2012 21:32 A young Israeli pianist, Ishay Shaer, paradoxically better known abroad than in this country, was presented to the local audience in the Etnahta Chamber Music series as a last-minute substitute for another pianist who had cancelled. Right from the start, Shaer surprised with an exquisitely soft touch and meditative tempo in Debussy’s Images. There was no rigidity but a Debussy-like, appealing flexibility, and a decisive, well accentuated left hand. In Beethoven’s Bagatelles, the pianist highlighted the contrasts between the composer’s mostly concealed intimacy and his characteristic impulsive outbursts. The program’s highlight was Schumann’s Symphonic Etudes in their rarely performed first version (1834). Though an extremely demanding work, the pianist did not indulge in showy virtuosity, despite his impressive technical competence, but concentrated on its formidable aesthetic and artistic qualities. He conveyed its complex and incessantly changing emotional content with utmost sensitivity and intensity. While refraining tastefully from demonstrative overstatements, he expressed the composer’s sometimes tortured and often exuberant statements subtly yet also with force of conviction. One looks forward with expectation to this obviously talented young pianist’s further development and progress http://www.jpost.com/ArtsAndCulture/Music/Article.aspx?id=271911

No Calm before the Storm Kunstverein: Ishay Shaer in Pianoplus By Fritz Herzog Not the meteorological phenomenon, but Shakespeare’s last play, "The Tempest", is the programme of Beethoven's piano sonata Op. 31 No. 2, carrying the same title. The 1983 born Israeli pianist Ishay Shaer, who was a semi-finalist in last year's "International Telekom Beethoven Competition", treats the composer’s allusions by “reading” both the musical and the literary texts: Asking questions, providing answers, leading dialogues, meditating, narrating or being impulsively enthusiastic. Ideas that seem as though they develop at the very moment give his interpretation of the piece a persuasive originality. In his "Pianoplus" performance, Shaer played, in addition to Beethoven, also Bach's prelude and fugue in F sharp minor (BWV 883), the last 10 preludes from Op. 28 by Chopin, Liszt's concert etude No. 2 in F minor, "La Leggierezza", and "Gaspard de la Nuit" by Ravel. Especially worth mentioning is the pianist's ability to experience each and every piece at an equal level of authenticity. The excerpt from "The Well-Tempered Clavier" captivates him just as intensively as the gentle autobiographical introspections of the zealous, lovesick Chopin. Shaer handles Liszt's virtuosity calmly and pleasantly, and in Ravel's work he unfolds the entire palette of Impressionism, with the widest range of dynamics. Here, as in Beethoven, he is exceptionally convincing. (4/08/2010)

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Werkgerechtigkeit bei den MettlacherKammermusiktagenMettlach. Dass sich zwei Streichinstrumente und ein Flügel auf der Bühne zu einer Einheit fügen, ist nichtselbstverständlich: Bei dem Ishay Shaer Pianotrio entsteht der Eindruck großer Verbundenheit (Veröffendlicht am19.06.2012)

Mettlach. Dass sich zwei Streichinstrumente und ein Flügel auf der Bühne zu einer Einheit fügen, ist nichtselbstverständlich: Bei dem Ishay Shaer Pianotrio entsteht der Eindruck großer Verbundenheit. Wie befreit spieltdas junge Ensemble nach dem Beginn mit "Variationen über eine hebräische Melodie" Ben-Haims am Sonntagim Refektorium der Mettlacher Abtei bei Brahms C-Dur Trio op.87 auf. Das Spiel wird dem leidenschaftlich-drängenden Charakters des ersten Satzes sofort gerecht. Nur das Klavier wünscht man sich klarer, es klingtetwas bedeckt - warum ließ man den Klavierdeckel geschlossen?

Bei Haydns A-Dur Trio hat man seine Freude an der lustvollen zeitlichen Gestaltung, an spannungsvollenSekunden zwischen den Noten und winzigen Verzögerungen, die die Musik beleben. Es bereitet Freude, dassdas Trio jedes Stück anders angeht und den Werken jeweils gerecht wird. Im Ravel-Klaviertrio brilliert PianistIshay Shaer mit Kaskaden, Wellenbewegungen und Arpeggien und vermag Tiefe, aber auch Spritzigkeit undHeftigkeit aus Ravels Werk herauszuholen. Violinistin Sivann Zelikoff findet einen intimen konzentrierten Klangfür die Kantilenen, während Cellist Gal Nyska weiche Cellogrundierung hinzugibt. aka

Nächstes Konzert am 24. Juni (11 Uhr): Solo-Klavierwerke von Bach, Ravel, Skrijabin und Beethoven mitAlexander Schimpf.

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