Bar Zemach
Bar Zemach
Bar Zemach is an Israeli Horn player based in Berlin. He gave his Solo debuts in Israel with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the Haifa Symphony, He later gave his German solo debuts with the Capella Amadeus Kammerorchester in the Konzerthaus Berlin and with the Bayerisches Kammerorchester in the Berliner Philharmonie.
Bar is the Principal Horn of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Daniel Barenboim. He was selected after a successful audition in 2022. He worked as a Principal Horn with the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker on a temporary contract, and as a guest Principal with the DSO (Berlin Radio Orchestra) and the Staatskapelle Berlin (Berlin Opera Orchestra) with them he recorded the whole Chamber Music of Richard Strauss for the Winds.
Bar plays Chamber music in the Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival, Boulez Ensemble, Pacific Quintet and will soon join as a member of Maestro Giora Feidman Klezmer Virtuos quartet. He plays contemporary music frequently with the Boulez Ensemble, Ensemble Modern, and premiered works that commissiond for him especially. He was an academist in Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra, Moritzburg, Grafenegg, and still a Principal Horn in the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie.
Bar will premiere a new Concert for Shofar ( the Jewish traditional Horn) and Orchestra in the Berliner Philharmonie the next season.
He is a Britten-Pears Young Artist of 2024-2025, the Grand Prix winner of the French competition Nouvelles Étoiles, the First Prize winner of the Israeli national competition for Wind instruments and former Grant recipient of the AICF.
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