Gavriel Lipkind – Violoncello
Photo: Marco Borggreve
“…Lipkind is a total one-off… he plays as if possessed… This was edge-of-the-seat, white knuckle playing…” — The Independent
Born in 1977 in Israel, Gavriel Lipkind very early enjoyed a stellar rise to fame and appeared in some of the world’s most prestigious venues with orchestras such as the Israel Philharmonic, the Munich Philharmonic and the Baltimore Symphony, working alongside outstanding musicians such as Zubin Mehta, Philippe Entremont, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Yehudi Menuhin, Pinchas Zukerman, Yuri Bashmet and Gidon Kremer.
Having graduated from three major academies on three continents and having won more than twelve top prizes in major competitions, Lipkind found himself at the pinnacle of his youthful achievements.
“A new star ascends the cello sky… The young Israeli cellist is one of the major musicians to have entered the music scene in recent years…”, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote of Gavriel Lipkind when he moved from Israel to Western Europe in 1996.
At this pivotal point in his development Lipkind produced two contrasting recordings: Miniatures and Folklore, featuring his own arrangements and Single Voice Polyphony (Volume I), showcasing Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cello Suites. These productions show him moving from strength to strength as a conceptual musician and a true expressive virtuoso. As well as all the major works for cello, Lipkind’s repertoire encompasses numerous rarities, newly commissioned works and his own arrangements and transcriptions.
“Gavriel Lipkind… proves that he is certainly the finest cellist playing today.” (Bernard Greenhouse, 2006)