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Ira Givol
Ira Givol is a devoted soloist and chamber musician. He plays both modern and baroque cello, as well as the Viola Da Gamba. As a founding member of the Tel Aviv Trio he has won many awards, including the first prize at Concours International de Musique de Chambre de Haute Alsace (France), and prizes at the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition (Australia), Vittorio Gui International Chamber Music Competition (Italy), the Città di Trapani International Chamber Music Competition (Italy), the Joseph Joachim Competition (Germany), and the Erst-Klassik Competition (Germany). The Tel Aviv Trio was the winner of the 2006 Israeli Ministry of Education award for Chamber Music. He has played chamber music and solo concerts in some of the world's most spectacular concert halls, including the Philharmonie in Berlin, the Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, the Kennedy Center in Washington, Jordan Hall in Boston, the Wallace Collection in London, the Conde Duque in Madrid, the Tivoli Concert Hall in Copenhagen, and other major concert halls throughout Israel, Europe, North America, South America, Southeast Asia and Australia. Currently Ira is the artistic director of the Cologne early music festival, Cologne, Germany. Ira is a founding member of Trio VIS (cello, flute and piano). The trio is the 2009 winner of the “Boris Pergamenchikov” competition in Berlin, Germany. With Trio VIS, ira has developed the “64 things show”. A new format for the old classical music show. Ira has performed as a soloist with many leading orchestras, including the Israel Symphony Orchestra, The Thelma-Yellin Orchestra, The Israel Conservatory Orchestra, the Young Israeli Philharmonic, the Tel Aviv Soloists’ Ensemble, the Geneva Camerata and “il gardellino” baroque orchestra. . As a soloist, Ira is a two-time winner of the Ben-Haim Competition, and The Israel Conservatory of Music Competition. Currently he is a principal cellist of the Geneva Camerata, and of the “Il Gardellino” baroque orchestra.

He recorded several several solo and chamber music CD’s in some of the worlds top Labels such as- Deutsche Gramophone, Sony, Accent, Passacaglia, IG records, etc.

Ira is a graduate of the "outstanding young musicians program" of the Jerusalem music center. In 2005-6, he was a student of Lawrence Lesser and Vivian and Donald Weilerstein at the New England Conservatory in Boston. Ira graduated from his studies with Frans Helmerson at the Musikhochschule Köln at 2005, as well as his Baroque Cello and Viola Da Gamba studies with Rainer Zipperling in 2007. Ira is playing on a 1720 Peter Rombauts cello.