Ira
Givol is a devoted chamber
musician. He plays both modern and
baroque cello, as well as the Viola Da Gamba. As
a founding member of the Tel Aviv Trio he
has won many awards, including the first prize at Concours
International de
Musique de Chambre de Haute Alsace (France), and prizes at the
Melbourne
International Chamber Music Competition (Australia), Vittorio Gui
International
Chamber Music Competition (Italy), the Città di Trapani International
Chamber
Music Competition (Italy), the Joseph Joachim Competition (Germany),
and the
Erst-Klassik Competition (Germany). The Tel Aviv Trio was the winner of
the
2006 Israeli Ministry of Education award for Chamber Music. He has played in some of the world's most
spectacular concert halls, including the Philharmonie in Berlin, the
Auditorium
du Louvre in Paris, the Kennedy Center in Washington, Jordan Hall in
Boston,
the Wallace Collection in London, the Conde Duque in Madrid, the Tivoli
Concert
Hall in Copenhagen, and other major concert halls throughout Israel,
Europe, North
America, South America, Southeast Asia and Australia. Currently Ira is
a member
of the "Amber trio" (Jerusalem), as well as a member of the
contemporary music ensemble Kaprizma. He
has been principle cellist of the Tel Aviv Soloists’ ensemble since
2007, and joined
the Israeli Contemporary String Quartet in the following year.
Ira
is a member of Trio VIS (cello, flute
and piano). The trio is the 2009 winner of the “Boris Pergamenchikov”
competition in Berlin, Germany
Ira
has performed as a soloist with
Israel’s leading orchestras, including the Israel Symphony Orchestra,
The
Thelma-Yellin Orchestra, The Israel Conservatory Orchestra, and the
Young Israeli
Philharmonic, and recently with the Tel Aviv Soloists’ Ensemble. As a
soloist,
Ira is a two-time winner of the Ben-Haim Competition, and The Israel
Conservatory
of Music Competition.
Ira
is a member of the baroque groups, La
Mela Di Newton (NYC), and SirMoro (Germany), with whom he won a prize
at the
Concerto Barocko Competition (Germany).
Ira is also playing with several leading baroque groups around
the
globe, both on Gamba and Cello. Among them are Academia Daniel
(Israel), Il
Gardellino (Belgium), Koelner Akademie (Germany), Bach Soloists
(Israel), “Me
La Amargates tu” (The Netherlands).
Ira
is a graduate of the "outstanding
young musicians program" of the Jerusalem music center.
In 2005-6, he was a student of Lawrence
Lesser and Vivian and Donald Weilerstein at the New England
Conservatory in
Boston. Ira graduated from his studies
with Frans Helmerson at the Musikhochschule Köln at 2005, as well as
his
Baroque Cello and Viola Da Gamba studies with Rainer Zipperling in 2007.
Ira
is playing on a Collin Mezin cello,
lent to him by the America-Israel cultural foundation.
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