Jonathan Aner

Prof. Jonathan Aner, born 1978 in Israel. Studied with Prof. Arie Vardi at the Academy of Music and Drama Hannover and piano studies with Prof. Konrad Elser at the Academy of Music Lübeck. 2007 postgraduate Master of Music with Vivian Weilerstein at the New England Conservatory Boston. Masterclasses with Isaac Stern, Leon Fleischer, Bernard Greenhouse, Steven Isserlis and Sabine Meyer. Gained musical insights from Murray Perahia and András Schiff. Prizes and awards in numerous competitions, both as soloist e.g. International Piano Competition Cittá di Senigallia, Paul Ben Haim Competition, International Schubert Competition Dortmund and Julius Katchen Award Tel Aviv, and as a member of the Tel Aviv Trio, which he co-founded, in the international chamber music competitions in Città di Trapani and Vittorio Gui Florence in Italy, the International Joseph Joachim Chamber Music Competition in Germany, the International First-Classical Chamber Music Competition Berlin and the European Chamber Music Competition in France. Jonathan Aner is a member of the Oberon Piano Trio, founded in 2006, and the Duo Brillaner. Musical collaboration with Tabea Zimmermann, Michael Tree of the Guarneri Quartet, musicians from the Berlin Philharmonic, the Jerusalem Quartet and the Borromeo String Quartet. Numerous appearances with piano recitals and chamber music concerts, e.g. in the Philharmonie Berlin, Carnegie Hall, Auditorium du Louvre Paris, Kennedy Center Washington, Wallace Collection London, Conde Duque Madrid, Dom Muzyki Moskau, Tivoli Concert Hall Copenhagen and in Israel, Asia and Australia. Jonathan Aner was guest artist at the International Festival Bergen, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Festival Ljubljana, Next Generation II, the International Encounters, the IMS Prussia Cove as well as in the Yellow Lounge of Deutsche Grammophon. Radio recordings for WQXR, BBC, France Musique, Radio Italia, ABC, NDR, SWR and Israel’s Voice of Music plus various CD recordings. Invitations to teach masterclasses took him to the USA, Europe, Canada, Asia and Australia. From the winter semester 2010/11 Jonathan Aner was appointed visiting professor and from the summer semester 2011 took up a full professorship for chamber music (piano with strings) at the Academy of Music Hanns Eisler Berlin.

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October 2010