Guest Artist > Itamar Zorman

Born in Tel-Aviv 1986 to a musical family, Itamar Zorman is the leading violinist in the Israeli Army Orchestra and is graduating with honors from the Hebrew University. He is currently a student of Hagai Shaham.

Itamar graduated from the Israeli conservatory of music in Tel-Aviv, where he started his violin studies at the age of six with Saly Bockel. He continued his violin studies with Professor David Chen, and Nava Milo. In 1998, he sang as boy-soprano with the Israel Philharmonic under the baton of Zubin Mehta, the solo part of Crumb's ancient voices for children and Bernstein's Chichester Psalms under the baton of Daniel Oren.
 
He preformed in several television programs and has been recorded for the Austrian and the Israeli radio. As a recipient of the America-Israel Cultural foundation scholarship, Itamar participated in master classes with Itzhak Perlman, Shlomo Mintz, Ida Hendel and Ivry Gitlis.

He has performed with the Jerusalem Symphony, the Simfonietta Be’er-Seva and the Ramat Gan Camerata. He participated in international music festivals including: Keshet Eilon, Weathersfield (in Vermont) and Chatauqua (in New-York). Itamar won the first prize in Claremont Contest (2004), The Rubin Academy Jerusalem contest (2004), the Israeli Conservatory Competition (2002), and the ISA Budapest-Vienne-Prague Competition for contemporary music. Recently, he won first prize in the Ben-Haim Competition in Israel (2006) .