Silver-Garburg Piano Duo, Duo

Biography

Praised for their "lyric sensitivity, extraordinary inner perception and overwhelming technical mastering" (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), the Silver-Garburg Piano Duo enjoys a flourishing international career, performing in more than forty countries on five continents. Sivan Silver and Gil Garburg founded their duo in 1997 and within a few years became one of the most remarkable piano-duos on the international stage, gaining enthusiastic acclaim from music audiences and critics alike.

Their numerous concerts have taken them to prestigious venues including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Berlin Philharmonie, Vienna Musikverein, Rome's New Auditorium, Finlandia Hall, Berlin Konzerthaus, Beijing National Radio, Teatro Colon and Palacio Nacional de Bellas Artes.

The duo performs with numerous orchestras: The Israel Philharmonic, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Melbourne Symphony, Tchaikovsky Symphony "Fedoseyev", Berlin Symphony, Jerusalem Symphony, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Munich Chamber, Stuttgart Chamber, Israel Chamber, Israel Camerata, as well as with soloists of the Bayerischer Rundfunk and the Bamberg Symphony.

The Silver-Garburg Duo has performed at festivals including the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Israel Festival, Tokyo Summer Festival, Kremlin Festival, Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker, Passau European Music-Weeks, Sommerkonzerte zwichen Donau und Altmuhl, Cervantino Festival, and at the Festival Internacional de Segovia.

Sivan Silver, born in Israel in 1976, and Gil Garburg, born in Israel in 1975, studied with Prof. Arie Vardi at Tel-Aviv University and at the "Musikhochschule" in Hanover, Germany. They have won first prize in more than a dozen national and international competitions, both as soloists and as a duo. Since October 2001 they have taught at the Hanover Musikhochschule.