Noam Greenberg

Israeli pianist Noam Greenberg studied at the Rubin Academy in Tel Aviv and at Yale University, before moving to London to study with Maria Curcio. His life was changed by his visit to the International Musicians' Seminar Prussia Cove in 2001, for Masterclasses with Ferenc Rados and Sir Andras Schiff. Many lessons with Ferenc Rados followed in Budapest, and regular visits to the Open Chamber Music Seminars at IMS Prussia Cove, including their 2004 UK tour. Noam now enjoys a busy concert schedule as soloist, recitalist and chamber musician in both the traditional repertoire and new music and has appeared regularly on many European stages including the Wigmore Hall in London, the Vienna Konzerthaus and Musikverein, the Berlin Konzerthaus, Parco della Musica Roma, Concertgebouw Amsterdam and the Auditorio Nacional Madrid. An avid performer of contemporary music, he was for four years the solo pianist of the Israeli Contemporary Players, Israel's foremost contemporary music ensemble, and has given many Israeli premieres including Ligeti's Piano Concerto, in a performance broadcast live by the European Broadcasting Union. His UK premieres include works by Magnus Lindberg, Marco Stroppa, and Sven Ingo Koch. He has made many appearances in festivals including Lucerne, Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Banff, Norfolk, Lapland, Orlando, Schleswig-Holstein, Stage-Barcelona, Plush, Zeitkunst, and Mizmorim

Basel. He was a member of the Waldstein Ensemble, together with Gerhrad Schulz, Guy Ben-Ziony and Lilia Bayrova, with whom he toured extensively.  Among his regular and recent chamber music partners are clarinettist Chen Halevi, violinists Pekka Kuusisto and Gerhard Schulz, singers Mark Padmore, Christine Schaffer and Ailish Tynan, cellists Pieter Wispelwey and Adrian Brendel, as well as the Ardeo, Doric and Gringolts String Quartets. His recording of the Brahms clarinet sonatas together with clarinettist Chen Halevi was released last year on the Cobra label, to critical acclaim. As soloist he has performed with many orchestras both in his native Israel and abroad.  He taught masterclass courses annually at Burg Fesitritz in Austria, and has also given masterclasses at the Britten Pears School in Aldeburgh, the Royal Northern College of Music, and the Hochschule fur Musik in Detmold. He is Artistic Director of the Music at Tresanton festival in Cornwall, UK, which he founded in 2006. The festival takes place every year in November, has a devoted following, and is regularly broadcast by BBC Radio 3.