Pianist Andy Feldbau . (photo credit:LEON LE)
With his love for music, young Israeli pianist Andy Feldbau is constantly widening his repertoire as he performs at this week’s Pianos Festival in Jerusalem.
The three-dayer kicks off with a tribute to 84-year-old Alexander Tamir and the late Bracha Eden, who for over half a century comprised one of the most famous piano duos in the world. Eden passed away in 2006 at the age of 78, but hale and hearty Tamir continues to present a wide variety of classical concerts at his center in Ein Kerem, and is still on the teaching staff of the Hebrew University’s Rubin Academy of Music and Dance.
The Eden-Tamir slot features a slew of top pianists, including Misha Zerzekel, Tom Zalmanov and Alon Mamo, and Jerusalemite sibling twosome of Shir and Dror Semmel. The repertoire for the festival opener includes arrangements for piano duets, trios and quartets of works by Schubert, Mozart, Bach and Mendelssohn. There will also be some sonic fare from around this neck of the woods, when 87-year-old Algerian-born pianist Maurice El-Mediouni joins forces with thirtysomething pianist Omri Mor, bassist Hagai Belitzky and percussionist Hillel Amsalem.
Another intriguing blend features evergreen and ever-popular 66-year-old pop-rock pianist and vocalist Shlomo Gronich, who will do keyboard battle with 32-year-old Andy Feldbau. The December 25 shows goes by the neatly alliterative title of “From Gershwin to Gronich” and will include works by the great 20th century American composer, as well as some of Gronich’s compositions and various other pieces for solo or duo piano.
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