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Nurit
Pacht
Violin
Chosen by director Robert Wilson to be the featured musician in his multi-media piece
Relative Light featuring solo violin works by John Cage’s and J.S. Bach, Nurit Pacht is equally at home in the standard repertoire as in the contemporary.
Nurit Pacht was selected as one of the "Stars of the Year 2000" by Le Monde de la Musique and since then her career has blossomed with appearances in London's Wigmore Hall, Vienna's Musikverein, Moscow's Great Hall, Washington's Kennedy Center, Carnegie’s Weill Hall, The People's Hall of China in Beijing and at Ravinia’s Rising Stars Series.
This season, she performs as soloist in collaboration with the dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones in one of Europe’s greatest Cathedrals, the Duomo in Milan. It is also her first season as the artistic director of the series “From Proust to Boulez” at New York’s Florence Gould Hall and her debut recital CD will be released on the Quartz label. This summer, she became a member of the Flatiron Trio and will be performing with them Sicily.
Nurit Pacht performed in duo recitals with Philip Glass playing the composer’s works for violin and piano. In 2002 she returned to Wigmore Hall with Russian pianist Konstantin Lifschitz to premiere the compositions of important Central European Jewish composers exiled in the UK, a performance released this year by Nimbus records. In Italy they perform at the festival of Stresa and Milan's Societe dei Concerti. Their all Mozart recording was commercially released on her own label, Sound Expectations.
In the United States she has been a soloist with the Rhode Island Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, Pacific Symphony, Santa Barbara Symphony, Des Moines Symphony, Brooklyn Philharmonic and Santa Rosa Symphony. In Italy she performed with the Filarmonica di Roma, in Poland and Germany with the Wroclaw Chamber Orchestra, with most of the major orchestras of Romania including the Georges Enesco Philharmonic and with the National Symphony of Columbia.
Nurit Pacht has toured as soloist with the Israeli Chamber Orchestra. She also performed the world premiere of Noam Sheriff's Violin Concerto
Dibrot, a work dedicated to her, with the Israeli Contemporary Players in a radio broadcast from Jerusalem and in the Contemporary Music Festival in Tel-Aviv. Nurit was also the soloist on a tour of China with the Young Israel Philharmonic, performing in the major concert venues of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.
In the spring of 1996, immediately following the cease-fire, she concertized in six of the worst war-devastated cities of Bosnia to enthusiastic audiences of the three ethnic minorities, with the sponsorship of the United Nations and the European Mozart Foundation. At the invitation of the European Commission she also performed on the occasion of the inauguration of the European Monetary Union in Bruxelles. She was heard at the festivals of Mecklenberg Vorpommern, Divonne, Stresa, Kfar Blum, George Crumb, Monadnock and, at the invitation of Christoph Eschenbach, performed in Ravinia's Rising Stars Series.
Nurit Pacht grew up in Texas and made her first solo public appearance on national television at the age of 12. In 1990, at age seventeen, she made her U.S. solo debut with the Houston Symphony Orchestra and has since won top prizes in international competitions in Europe and the United States, including the Tibor Varga International Violin Competition in Switzerland.
She plays on a violin made by Nicola Amati in 1678.
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