Vera Vaidman
, violinist (for more publicity pictures click
here)
(photo Vaidman
Krasovsky duo)
Born in
St. Petersburg, Russia, Vera Vaidman studied in Moscow -- first at the Central
High School of Music and later at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Her major
teachers were Boris Belenky and David
Oistrakh.
Immediately upon arriving in Israel, she
took part in Isaac Stern's master courses at the Jerusalem Music Centre
and went on to appear frequently as a soloist with orchestra, recitalist, and
chamber music performer. She was heard with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra,
conducted by Zubin Mehta and Andre Kostelanetz, the Israel Chamber
Orchestra under Rudolf Barshai, the Jerusalem Symphony, led by Gerard
Schwarz, Lukas Foss and other conductors, and with all the other orchestras
in the country.
She has toured Europe on numerous occasions as recitalist and soloist with various orchestras, performing, inter alia, the entire Bach violin solo repertoire and the 10 violin sonatas by Beethoven. Performed recitals at the Oxford and Cambridge Universities. On Paul Hindemith's 100-th birthday, she performed his violin concerto at the Hindemith festival in Stuttgart, Germany; she also appeared as soloist in the Dvorak violin concerto in Concepcion, Chile. Vera Vaidman has given recitals in New York (at the Merkin Hall), Chicago, New Haven, Rochester, N.Y., at the Oberlin, Smith and Dartmouth Colleges as well as the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and was heard as a soloist with Jerusalem Symphony in the USA. Her Israel-recorded CD has won international critical acclaim. In December 2005 she gave the world premiere of the violin concerto by Alexander-Uriyah Boskovich (written 60 years ago, but its final version never performed before).
Twice she was invited to participate in the Marlboro Chamber Music Festival, performing and recording there with Rudolf Serkin, Andras Schiff, Philipp Naegele, and other artists. She also took part in Israel's Upper Galilee Chamber Music Festival and went on European tour with a group of the Festival participants.
In addition, she participated in St. Cyprien festival in France, Gotland and Sommarmusik pa Naset festivals in Sweden, the Esbjerg Chamber Music Festival in Denmark, and Dino Ciani Festival in Italy.
Vera
Vaidman was a founding member and artistic co-director of the semi-annual
chamber music festival in Zichron Ya'acov, Israel. For eight years she was the
first violinist of the former H.Gertler string quartet, appearing with that
group in the framework of Israel Festival and on tour in France, Spain, England,
Belgium and Germany. Vera Vaidman has also served the music director and leader
of Ramat Hasharon Camerata women string orchestra.
She has
conducted master-classes in USA (Oberlin, Smith, Dartmouth Colleges), England
(Royal College, London), France (CNR Conservatoires of Paris and Boulogne),
Germany, Denmark (Royal Academy of Music, Copenhagen), Sweden (Royal Music
College, Stockholm), Italy (Bologna Conservatory), the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Georgia (Tbilisi State
Conservatoire), Finland (Turku Conservatory), Hungary, Turkey and taught for 15 consecutive years at International Summer Academy in Suolahti, Finland.
Vera Vaidman
20 Haim and Elisha st. Tel-Aviv Israel
64288
Tel: + 972 3 6297558
Fax: + 972 3 5255736
e-mail: krasovsk@post.tau.ac.il