Israeli musician takes the ‘YouTube’ to Carnegie Hall

March 6, 2009 - 7:21 PM by David

nir-gavrieliAnother reason to be proud to be Israeli. Nir Gavrieli, a 21-year-old music student at the Jerusalem Academy of Music has been chosen to be a member of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra, along with 90 other musicians from around the world.

Over 3,000 people submitted video auditions to YouTube to join the orchestra, which will participate in a classical music summit on April 12-15, concluding with a concert at Carnegie Hall under the direction of London Symphony Orchestra Principal Guest Conductor, Michael Tilson Thomas.

For his audition, Gavrieli performed the required piece – the oboe part from Symphony No. 1, Eroica, especially written for the orchestra by Chinese composer Tan Dun, and he also submitted his own choice – the overture to La Scala di Seta by Rossini.

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After a preliminary screening by musicians from the London Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, Hong Kong Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, among others, the videos of two hundred finalists were collected and posted on the YouTube Symphony Orchestra channel on February 14. Then 13 million YouTube viewers voted for their favorites and Tilson Thomas reviewed the finalists to create the orchestra that will perform the program at Carnegie Hall on April 15.

Gavrieli said he was surprised and pleased to be chosen. “I’m really excited. Carnegie Hall is a place where every musician aspires to play,” said Gavrieli, who plays with the Jerusalem Academy orchestra and has played with youth orchestras in Germany and Italy.

Way to go, Nir.

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