- Jaromir Weinberger
- Chamber and organ music
- Asaf Levy – violin
- Stephan Froleyks – side drum
- Efrat Levy – piano
- Moran Abouloff – soprano
- Gerhard Weinberger – organ
- Co-production:
- Gideon Boss Musikproduktion and Deutschlandfunk © 2011
- Co-producer: Yuval Shaked
Asaf Levy – violin
Efrat Levy, Asaf Levy & Stephan Froleyks
during the recording at the Chamber Music Hall of Deutschlandfunk
Photo © Deutschlandfunk – Jeanette SingerBorn in 1983 in Tel-Aviv, Israel, Asaf Levy studied at the Israel Conservatory of Music in Tel-Aviv with Nava Milo, and in Rostock with Professor Petru Munteanu. In 1999 he was the winner of the Tel-Aviv Conservatory Competition. In the following years he took part in master-classes of Leonidas Kavakos, Donald Weilerstein, Miriam Fried und Itzhak Perlman in Israel, Europe and the USA. In 1999 and 2000 he was a member of the Perlman Music Program, and in 2004 he was selected by the Académie de Musique de Lausanne to participate in masterclasses with Pierre Amoyal und Bruno Canino.
In 2008 Levy received his Diploma from the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Hochschule of Music and Theatre, Leipzig (in the class of Professor Roland Baldini), where he also studied baroque violin (in the class of Prof. Susanne Scholz).
He has appeared as soloist with the Thelma Yellin (High School of the Arts) Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of the Israel Conservatory of Music and the Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra, Leipzig. He was a founding member of Ensemble Meitar, with which he toured in Israel, Finland and England in the years 2003-2006. As a member of the Young Musicians Program of the Jerusalem Music Center, Asaf Levy regularly recorded chamber music for Israel Radio between 1999 and 2002.
Levy is a member and first violin with the chamber orchestra The Tel-Aviv Soloists, and with the Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra. In 2003 he was an auxiliary performer with the Staatskapelle Berlin.
Stephan Froleyks – side drum
Born in 1962 in Kleve on the Lower Rhine, Stephan Froleyks studied at the Musikhochschulen in Hannover and Essen. He works internationally as percussionist, composer, auithor, curator and inventor of new instruments. He is a professor at the Musikhochschule in Münster.
Stephan Froleyks has received multiple fellowships and arts awards. His compositions, installations, audio-theatre pieces, multimedia projects and works of music-theatre resulted from commissions from, among others, West German Radio (WDR), Radio Bremen and Deutschlandradio. They have been performed in many festivals (including the Donaueschingen Music Days, the Witten Days for New Chamber Music, the Dresden Days of Contemporary Music, the London Almeida Festival and Gaudeamus Music Week, Amsterdam).
As performer and improvising musician, Stephan Froleyks works both as soloist and with various ensembles in the broad field of new music. Concert tours have taken him through the whole of Europe, and to South America and Asia. He has participated as performer on more than 40 CDs, seven of them under his own name.
Efrat Levy – piano
Efrat Levy was born in 1980 in Tel-Aviv, Israel. She obtained her B.A. in piano performance in 2004 and M.A. in répétiteur and chamber music studies in 2006 – in both cases cum laude – from the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel-Aviv. She was a participant in several master-classes in Israel, Europe and the USA, including the Perlman Music Program (2002), the Tel-Hai Piano Master Classes (2004) and the master-classes of Pierre Amoyal and Bruno Canino at the Académie de Musique de Lausanne (2005). In 2008 she performed in Michelstadt at the ISAM International Music Festival, of which she was the Musical Director.
Efrat Levy is active as répétiteur for singers performing with the Israel Chamber Orchestra, the Israel Kibbutz Orchestra, and SELA – the Performing Arts Studio Founded by Yoram Loewenstein (Tel-Aviv), Ma'ayan Choir (Tel-Aviv) and the Israeli Opera Tel-Aviv-Yafo. She regularly performs as piano accompanist at opera workshops, among others at the International Vocal Arts Institute (IVAI), Tel-Aviv and Chiari, Italy, and the Voice Workshop of Professor Rita Dams in Tel-Aviv.
Moran Abouloff – soprano
Moran Abouloff & Gerhard Weinberger
during the recording at the Church of St. John the Baptist, Paderborn-Wewer
Photo © Yuval Shaked Born in Jerusalem, Moran Abouloff was a member of the IDF-Outstanding Musicians Program during her period of military service 2000-2002. She studied at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Hochschule of Music and Theatre in Leipzig with Professor Jeanette Favaro-Reuter und Professor Hans-Joachim Beyer. After 2002 she gained scholarships from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, and in the years 2002-2009 held the IVAI Scholarship (International Vocal Arts Institute, Tel-Aviv), and was a participant and prize-winner at the IVAI Opera Workshop for singers, répétiteurs and conductors at the Metropolitan Opera, New York.
Moran Abouloff made her debut in 2006 at the Gera-Altenburg opera house, appearing as Anna in the operetta "Das Feuerwerk" by Paul Burkhard. In a production of the American Opera Project in 2008 she was heard in one of the principal roles of Janice Hammer’s opera "Lost Childhood.” At the 2006 Aviv Competition in Tel-Aviv she won the audience’s prize, and in 2007 an advancement prize in the Yamaha Vocal Competition in Bremen. In 2010 she was awarded the second prize in the Robert Stolz Competition in Hamburg. Since the 2008/09 season she has been engaged in a full position at the State Theatre in Braunschweig, her roles there including Musetta in "La Bohème", Blonde in "Die Entführung aus dem Serail" und Marzelline in “Fidelio”. In 2009 Moran Abouloff, recorded for German Radio the role of Inez in Spohr’s "Der Alchymist," performing with baritone Bernd Weikl.
Gerhard Weinberger – organ
Gerhard Weinberger was born in 1948 in Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm, and studied at the Munich Hochschule of Music, organ (under Professor Franz Lehrndorfer), church music and music education. In 1971 he gained second second prize in the organ section of the international music competition of the German joint broadcasting authorities (ARD). After a period of three years as choral director at the Basilica of St. Lorenz in Kempten, he was appointed lecturer in organ and church music at the Munich Music Hochschule in 1974. Three years later, at the age of 29, he gained a full professorship in organ at the same institution. Since 1983 he has taught as professor of organ at the Detmold Hochschule of music, where he also heads the department of church music and is director (since 2004) of the Vocal Soloists Ensemble of the school’s Baroque Academy. Gerhard Weinberger is a member of the European Academy of Science and Arts in Salzburg, and of the board of the Neue Bachgesellschaft in Leipzig.
For many years Weinberger has maintained a busy international concert schedule. In 2000 he performed the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach several times. He has made numerous CD recordings, including the complete organ works of J.S. Bach on instruments from Bach’s time. He was awarded prizes for his recordings (including the 2009 annual prize of German recording critics for the complete recording of Bach’s organ works, cpo label, 2008), and has acted as jury member for several competitions. Weinberger is the editor of many publications of organ and sacred music (among them the complete organ works of both Johann Ludwig Krebs, Breitkopf & Härtel 1985, and Robert Schumann, Henle, 1986). He co-authored the book "Zur Interpretation der Orgelmusik J.S.Bachs" [On the Interpretation of the Organ Music of J.S. Bach] (with Ewald Kooiman and Hermann J. Busch; Kassel: Merseburger 1995).