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Shirley Brill (*born August 16, 1982 in Petah Tikva) is an Israeli classical clarinetist.

Biography
After studying in Israel with Yitzhak Katzap, Shirley Brill continued her studies at the Musikhochschule Lübeck in Germany and at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, USA, working with mentors such as Sabine Meyer and Richard Stoltzman.

Musical career
Shirley Brill’s career was launched with a performance as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta. She has since performed with various international orchestras, such as the Hamburger Symphoniker, the Chamber Orchestra of Geneva, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen and the Lübecker Philharmoniker. Brill has been invited to international music festivals such as the Festival de Radio France et Montpellier, the Ljubljana Festival in Slovenia, and the Davos Festival in Switzerland. In Germany, she gave performances at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Heidelberger Frühling and at the festival “Spannungen” in Heimbach, founded by Lars Vogt. She has collaborated with such artists as Daniel Barenboim, Sabine Meyer, the Borromeo String Quartet, the Jerusalem String Quartet, and the Trio di Clarone.

Committed to the creation and performance of new classical music, Shirley Brill has premiered numerous pieces of young composers and expanded the repertoire of the clarinet through her own transcriptions.

In 1999, Shirley Brill founded the Brillaner Duo together with her husband, the Israeli Pianist Jonathan Aner.

Awards and recognition

 * 2003: Special award at the ARD International Music Competition
 * 2003: 1st Prize for the Brillaner Duo at the 40th „Possehl“ Music Competition
 * 2006: 2nd Prize International Clarinet Competition Markneukirchen (1st Prize not awarded)
 * 2007: 2nd Prize at the Geneva International Music Competition (1st Prize not awarded)
 * 2010: Shirley Brill receives the Westphalian Peace Prize in the name of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded by Daniel Barenboim

Instruments
Shirley Brill plays a boxwood and a grenadill clarinet by Schwenk und Seggelke.

Recordings
Carl Maria v. Weber: Grand Duo Concertant op. 48 in E-flat major, Camille Saint-Saëns: Sonata for clarinet and piano op. 167 in E-flat major, Paul Ben-Haim: Pastorale Variée, Krysztof Penderecki: Three Miniatures, Francis Poulenc: Sonata. Artists: Brillaner Duo. MHL, 2005.

Carl Maria v. Weber: Clarinet Concerto in F minor op. 73 Nr. 1, Heinrich Baermann: Quintet for clarinet in E-flat major op. 23, Carl Maria v. Weber: Quintet for clarinet in B-flat major op. 34. Artists: Shirley Brill, Orchestre de Chambre de Genève, Quatuor Terpsycordes. PANCLASSICS, 2008.

Petite Pièce: French Miniatures for Clarinet and Piano. Works by: Gabriel Pierné, Eugène Bozza, Philippe Gaubert, Germaine Tailleferre, Claude Debussy. Artists: Brillaner Duo. PANCLASSICS, 2009.