Shirley Brill's career was launched with a performance as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under Zubin Mehta. She has since performed with various international orchestras, most recently as a soloist with the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester at the main hall of the Berliner Philharmonie. The Tagesspiegel journal wrote about this performance: “Shirley Brill showed an almost explosive urge to communicate. Spectacular, how the young Israeli modulates the melodic lines with extreme interpretive decisiveness and long breath”. Ms. Brill is the winner of the Geneva International Competition in Switzerland (2007), the Markneukirchen International Competition in Germany (2006) as well as a special prize recipient at the International ARD Competition in Munich.
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Shirley Brill has performed at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival in Germany, the Ljubljana Festival in Slovenia and the Davos Festival in Switzerland, and collaborated with such artists as Sabine Meyer, the Borromeo and the Jerusalem String Quartets, Trio di Clarone and soprano Chen Reiss. She regularly performs with pianist Jonathan Aner as a member of the Brillaner Duo, playing in such prestigious halls as the Carnegie Hall in New-York and the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn. The Duo won the Possehl Prize in Germany as well as the America-Israel Cultural Foundation grants, and has taken part in festivals in Germany, Australia, Turkey and Israel. Recently they served on the faculty at the Yellow Barn Festival’s Young Artists Program (USA), at the Mahler Academy in Ferrara (Italy), and coached masterclasses in different academies in Australia (including at the Australian National Academy of Music), Switzerland (Hochschule Luzern) Canada and Israel.
Committed to the creation and performance of new music, Ms. Brill has collaborated with several leading contemporary musicians including Diethelm Jonas and Zsolt Nagy. She has premiered numerous pieces of young composers and expanded the repertoire of the clarinet through her own transcriptions of existing music (such as Mozart and Janacek violin sonatas). Those transcriptions have won the praise of leading academics and performers.
Her CD as a soloist with l’Orchestre de Chambre de Geneve, featuring works by C.M. von Weber and Heinrich Baermann has been released September 2008 on the PanClassics label.
After studying in Israel with Mr. Yitzhak Katzap and at the outstanding young musicians' program of the Jerusalem Music Centre, Ms. Brill continued her studies at the Musikhochschule Lübeck in Germany and at the New England Conservatory in Boston. Working with world-renowned mentors such as Sabine Meyer and Richard Stoltzman, "Shirley Brill is on a fast track to making an international name for herself" (Prenzlauer Zeitung, Germany).
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