New CD

„To Aeneas“ is the title of Gilead Mishory’s new CD, published by NEOS. All three works in it refer to the myth of Dido and Aeneas: Muzio Clementi’s last piano sonata: „Didone Abbandonata“, Giuseppe Tartini’s sonata for violin, in Mishory’s transcription for piano solo, as well as Mishory’s new cycle „To Aeneas“. The CD has already been broadcast by many radio-stations in Europe in the first weeks after its appearance. The “MDR-Figaro” said about Mishory’s cycle: “It is a suite of five movements, which expresses the whole emotional range: from solemn desperation to eruptive rage. Dido’s suicide becomes almost an acoustic film”. Read the booklet-interview with Simon A. Rosenbaum in which Gilead Mishory talks about his cycle and the programming of this CD.

Clementi Movement 1 & 2 (excerpt)

Clementi Movement 3 & 4 (excerpt)

Tartini Movement 1 (excerpt)

Tartini Movement 2 (excerpt)

Tartini Movement 3 (excerpt)

Aeneas Movement 1 (excerpt)

Listen to more excxerpts about
Dido und Aeneas under compositions.

Read the reactions onto Dido and Aeneas:

W.M. Grimmel, FAZ, August 2017

Dr. Hartmut Hain, klassik.com, April 2017
Burkhard Schäfer, Piano News, April 2017
Frank Siebert, Fonoforum , April 2017

Gileads Compositions you can hear live here:

25.11.17 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain:

Prof. Alfonso Gomez, piano: Recital at Bernaola Festival "Fluchtstücke" ("Fugitive Pieces").

15.7.17 Freiburg, Hochschule für Musik:

Prof. Alfonso Gomez and the students: Aaron Löchle, Yue Zou, Clara Casado, Carolin Tjoa (piano). Recitation: Jakob Boenig: "Fugitive Pieces".

30.7.2017 Narnia Festival, Narni, Italy:

Gilead Mishory (piano): "Grandpa and I"

1.8.2017 Halle, Festival "EuroArts":

Katharina Deserno (cello) und Gilead Mishory (piano): "Psalm" for cello and piano.

2.8.2017 Odyssiad Festival, Colorado:

Sophia Hase (piano): from "Fugivite Pieces"

22.10.2017, 7 pm, Freiburg, "kooperatur"-Haus at the Münster:

Prof. Alfonso Gomez and the students: Aaron Löchle, Yue Zou, Clara Casado, Carolin Tjoa (piano). Recitation: Jakob Boenig: "Fugitive Pieces".

29.10.2017 Redwood City, California:

Markus Pawlik (piano): "To Aeneas: you. Nocturne".

30.10.2017 Seoul, National University:

String-Quartet "Psalm" after Paul Celan

23.11.2017 Bernaola-Festival, Spain:

„Fugitive Pieces“ (Alfonso Gómez, piano)

15.12.2017, 6 pm Freiburg, Hochschule für Musik: „Fugitive Pieces“ (Yang Tai, piano)

Recent competition-successes of Mishory’s students!

Last September Mishory’s student Wataru HISASUE won the third prize at the prestigious ARD-Competition in Munich.

At the recent “Lepthien”-Competition in Freiburg (May 2017) Yeseul MOON won the second prize, and Yang TAI the third.

Mariia IUDENKO won in summer 2017 the audience-prize at the “Russian Academy” in Freiburg. 2016 she gained prizes at three competitions: Friuli Venezia Giulia, as well as Luciano Luciani, Cosenza (Italy), and Campillos (Spain).

In October Yeseul Moon won the prize of the Friends’-Association of the Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg. She will represent the school at the “Mendelssohn-Competition” in Berlin.

Israeli Music-Festival „Felicja Blumental“

The Israeli Music-Festival „Felicja Blumental“ invited Gilead Mishory this year to a “Home-Visit”, During which two of his pieces will be performed. On April 4th , in the Tel-Aviv Museum, Mishory will perform his cycle “Lider-Togbuch” (Song-Diary). In the same evening there will be a first public performance of “Waterpsalm” for chamber-choir a capella (commissioned and already recorded by the “Deutscher Kammerchor”), by the “Moran”-Ensemble. On April 5th there will be an open discussion with Mishory and the other “home-visitor”, the composer Osvaldo Golijov.

Details under http://www.blumentalfestival.com/

Gilead Mishory: Psalmus

Christophorus Records, Freiburg, 03/2015

The German Chamber Choir ("Deutscher Kammerchor") commissioned by Gilead Mishory the three-movement piece "Wasserpsalm" (Waterpsalm), for choir a-capella in eight voices, and included it, in a first recording, in its new CD with various psalm-compositions, i.a. by Schubert, Mendelssohn and Schönberg. The three movements are based on the different associations of water in David's psalms, and are sung in Hebrew.