Performers

Tibi Cziger

Cited by the Peninsula Review as “an artist of the highest order”, Tibi Cziger was born in Israel in 1981. In 2006-07 he will be the first clarinetist ever to be admitted to the prestigious Artist Diploma program at Juilliard.

In March 2007 Mr. Cziger will make his Carnegie Hall Debut, as a soloist with the IPalpiti String Orchestra. Past solo appearances include the Israel Chamber Orchestra and The Israel young Philharmonic, where he was the principal clarinetist 2000-2002. Mr. Cziger was also a substitute clarinetist at the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.  As a very active chamber musician, Mr. Cziger has performed most of the chamber literature for the clarinet, with various concerts in live and recorded broadcasts on the Israeli National radio, KUSC, KMZRT, and in tours in Israel and the US. Recent venues include Weill Hall at Carnegie, Alice Tully Hall, LACMA’s Bing Theatre, and the Jerusalem Music Center.

A winner of many prizes and awards, Mr. Cziger won most recently the Mitchell Lurie Award in Los Angeles and second prize at the Carmel Music Society Competition. Among the different festivals he participated in are the National Repertory Orchestra in Breckenridge, Colorado, the Laureates Festival in Los Angeles, and the West Eastern Divan Workshop under the baton of Daniel Barenboim, in tours around Europe and USA.

Mr. Cziger holds a Master of Music degree from the USC Thornton School of Music where he received an outstanding graduate award, and a B.Mus. degree Magna cum Lauda from the Rubin Music Academy in Tel Aviv. His musical and clarinet studies have been with musicians as Mitchell Lurie, Aurele Nicolet, Haim Taub, Ilan Gronich, Sabine Meyer, Anthony Pay, and Wolfgang Meyer among others.

Mr. Cziger is a winner of the Leni Fe Bland Foundation Scholarship, Irene Diamond Scholarship, the Juilliard Alumni scholarship, a recipient of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarships 1997-2003, and in 2003-2005 he received the AICF special scholarship for studies abroad.

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