Alexander Fiterstein

"Fiterstein is one of a rare musical breed...He has technique, musicianship and charisma in abundance." Elsworth American

Winner of the 2009 $ 25,000 Avery Fisher Career Grant !!

One of the leading clarinetists of his generation, Alexander Fiterstein is a first-prize winner of the Carl Nielsen International Clarinet Competition and the Young Concert Artist International Auditions (YCA).

Alexander Fiterstein was born in Belarus. At the age of two, he immigrated with his family to Israel where he later studied at the Israel Arts and science Academy. He graduated from the Interlochen Centre for the Arts (Michigan) and the Juilliard School. He is recipient of the Bunkamura Orchard Hall Award in Tokyo and a first prize winner of the Aviv Competitions in Israel. he has received awards from the American israel Cultural Foundation since 1991. His teachers include Charles Neidich and Eli Heifetz.

He appeared with the Orchestra of St. Luke's at Lincoln Center, the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Polish Chamber Philharmonic, the Israel Chamber Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony, the Tokyo Philharmonic and the China National Symphony Orchestra among many others.

In recital, Mr. Fiterstein has appeared on the "Music at the Supreme Court" Series, at the National Gallery of Art, the Kennedy Center, the 92nd Street Y, Carnegie's Weill Hall, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Vancouver Recital Society, the Louvre in Paris, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, and the Tel-Aviv Museum.

Fiterstein treats his instrument as his own voice, dazzling in its spectrum
of colours, agility and range." The Washington Post

Mr. Fiterstein was a member of the prestigious Chamber Music Society II of Lincoln Center (2004-06). He participated in the Marlboro Music Festival for four summers and toured with Musicians from Marlboro. He also appeared at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival in Germany and at the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival.
He performed chamber music with Daniel Barenboim, Richard Goode, Emanuel Ax and with the American, Borromeo, Daedalus, Fine Arts, Mendelssohn, Muir and Jerusalem String Quartets. He also appeared with Ensemble Wien-Berlin.

Premieres:
Alexander Fiterstein premiered works by Osvaldo Golijov, Alexandra Du Bois, Mason Bates, Paul Schoenfield, Henrik Strindberg and Harrison Birtwistle. his season he will perform Paul Schoenfield’s new clarinet trio and Ronn Yedidia’s Concertino which was written for Alexander.

Fiterstein performed as principle clarinet of Daniel Barenboim’s West East Divan Orchestra and as guest principle clarinet with Zubin Mehta’s Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.

"Suddenly a soulful tone is heard from the stage, emerging directly from within. Dark, velvet colours pour out of the clarinet, as if he could make the clarinet sing. Write down his name: Alexander Fiterstein."


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