Giora Feidman (
Hebrew: גיורא פיידמן; born 25 March 1936) is an Argentine-born Israeli
clarinetist who specializes in
klezmer music.
Biography
Giora Feidman was born in
Buenos Aires,
Argentina, where his
Bessarabian Jewish parents immigrated to escape persecution. Feidman comes from a family of klezmer musicians. His father, grandfather and great-grandfather made music for
weddings,
bar mitzvahs, and holiday celebrations in the
shtetls of Eastern Europe. Feidman married Ora Bat-Chaim, his personal manager, in 1975.[1]
Music career
Feidman began his career in
Buenos Aires as a member of the
Teatro Colón Symphony Orchestra. Two years later he immigrated to
Israel to become the youngest clarinetist ever to play with the
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. He was a member of the orchestra for over 20 years.[2] In the early 1970s he began his solo career. He has performed with the
Berliner Symphoniker, the
Kronos Quartet, the Polish Chamber Philharmonic, the Munich Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Munich Radio Orchestra. In 1974 the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra commissioned composer Misha Segal to write a concerto for clarinet and orchestra for Giora Feidman. The one-movement piece, which was based on an original
nigun, premiered that same year.
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