Ivry Gitlis
| Ivry Gitlis | |
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Ivry Gitlis at home (Paris, 2010)
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Ivry (Yitzhak-Meir) Gitlis |
| Born |
25 August 1922 Haifa, Palestine Mandate, now Israel |
| Genres | Classical |
| Occupation(s) | violinist, pedagogue, writer, actor |
| Instruments | Violin |
| Years active | 1949 to present |
| Notable instruments | |
| - the "Giovanni Battista Rogeri", 1699 - the "Chant du Cygne" Stradivarius, 1737 - the "Ysaye" Guarnerius, 1740 - the "Sancy" Stradivarius, 1713 |
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Ivry Gitlis (Hebrew: עברי גיטליס; born 25 August 1922 in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli virtuoso violinist and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. He has performed with the world's top orchestras, including the London Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and many more.
Yitzhak-Meir (Isaac) Gitlis was born in Haifa, Palestine Mandate to Jewish parents, who emigrated in 1921 from Kamianets-Podilskyi, Russia, now Ukraine. Gitlis acquired his first violin when he was five years old and started lessons under Mme Velikovsky together with his friend Zvi Zeitlin. He then studied privately with Mira Ben-Ami, a pupil of Joseph Szigeti. When he was eight, she arranged for him to play for Bronisław Huberman, which prompted a fundraising campaign to allow him to study in France. In 1933 he arrived with his mother in Paris and started to take lessons with Marcel Chailley, husband of the pianist Céliny Chailley-Richez. Being very close to their family, he was introduced to George Enescu and Jacques Thibaud. In that period he decided to change his birth name (Isaac)) to Ivry. At 11, Gitlis (Jitlis) entered the Conservatoire de Paris in the class of Jules Boucherit, and graduated in 1935. Later, in 1939–1940, his teachers included George Enescu and Jacques Thibaud in Paris and Carl Flesch in Spa, Belgium and later in London.
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