Young Masters Recital Series:
Tomer Gewirtzman
February 22 at 2pm
Tomer Gewirtzman will be performing Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Rachmaninoff
Tomer is the most recent winner of the America - Israel Cultural Foundation’s Aviv Competition that took place in December 2013, where he won both the piano prize named after Rafi Guralnik and the audience prize named after Meira Gera.
In June 2014, he won the third prize in the inaugural Midwest Piano Competition in Iowa. In June 2010, he won the “Clairmont” competition in Israel; both first prize, and a special prize for a commissioned piece for the competition. Later that year, Tomer won the first prize in the “Piano Forever” competition in Ashdod, which gave him, in addition to the financial award, a full scholarship to attend master classes in the USA, and an opportunity to perform as soloist with the Ashdod Symphony Orchestra.
Tomer has won first prizes in the Chopin competition for young pianists in Tel-Aviv, the “Rig’ey See” piano competition in Ashdod, the “Pnina Zaltzman Piano Competition for Young Pianists” in Kfar-Sava, and the “Tel-Hai International Piano Masterclasses” concerto competition. In addition, Tomer won first prize in the Aspen Music Festival concerto competition right after winning second prize in the International Russian Music Piano Competition in San Jose, where he was the youngest competitor in his category.
He has received top prizes in other international competitions such as the International Keyboard Institute Festival piano competition in New York, Arte Con Anima piano competition in Greece, and the International Baltic Piano Competition in Poland.
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