Single Tickets On Sale August 1, 2025
ABOUT THIS PERFORMANCE
Based in both Israel and New York, the Israeli Chamber Project is a dynamic ensemble comprising strings, winds, harp, and piano, and bringing together some of today's most distinguished musicians. Their innovative return to CMDetroit includes a unique chamber transcription of Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony made especially for them.
“The Israeli Chamber Project is that rarest of creatures: a band of world-class soloists that is not a muster of peacocks, but a hive mind in which egos dissolve and players think, breathe and play as one.”
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Israeli Chamber Project
Itamar Zorman, violin
Guy Ben-Ziony, viola
Michal Korman, cello
Guy Eshed, flute
Tibi Cziger, clarinet
Assaff Weisman, piano
Now in its second decade, the Israeli Chamber Project is a dynamic ensemble comprising strings, winds, harp, and piano, that brings together some of today's most distinguished musicians for chamber music concerts and educational and outreach programs both in Israel and abroad. It was named the winner of the 2011 Israeli Ministry of Culture Outstanding Ensemble Award and 2017 Partos Prize in recognition of its passionate musicianship, creative programming, and commitment to educational outreach.
Based both in Israel and in New York, the ensemble was created as a means for its members to give something back to the community where they began their musical education and to showcase Israeli culture, through its music and musicians to concert-goers overseas. Among its members are prize-winners at the Tchaikovsky International Competition, the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award, Avery Fisher Career Grant, and the Gaspar Cassado Cello Competition.
The Israeli Chamber Project’s tours have included appearances on some of the premier chamber music series, whether in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, New York or Beijing, as well as in remote towns where access to live chamber music is extremely rare. Tour venues have included London's Wigmore Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Morgan Library & Museum, Town Hall and Merkin Concert Hall in New York City, Philadelphia's Kimmel Center, Herbst Theatre in San Francisco, The Clark Memorial Library at UCLA, Ottawa’s Chamberfest, on tour in China and Hong Kong, and has been featured on NPR’s Performance Today and WQXR radio’s Young Artist Showcase. Read more >
Antje Weithaas, violin
Antje Weithaas goes all out. She interprets Robert Schumann's first violin sonata, a work that could previously be understood as slightly melancholy and a beautiful contribution to domestic music, as music full of loneliness and forlornness. Her ability to evoke hell with a single note immerses the music in the highest emotionality. She not only masters the entire spectrum of creative mastery - she also utilises it mercilessly (…) Antje Weithaas, and this is certain, is not just a violinist, she is a musician, and currently one of the best. rbb Kultur, 13/12/2023.
With captivating energy and a fine sense for nuances, Antje Weithaas gives her audience a "stellar hour of music" (FAZ) time and again. Her wide stylistic range and unmistakable musical language are fascinating. Blessed with impressive technical mastery and an enormous gamut of sound, she manages the feat of finding very individual readings of the great masterpieces and yet unpretentiously placing herself at the service of the composer. She has an extensive repertoire that includes the great concertos by Mozart, Beethoven and Schumann, new works such as Jörg Widmann’s Violin Concerto, modern classics by Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Ligeti and Gubaidulina, and lesser performed concertos by Hartmann and Schoeck. Read more >
