Gavriel Lipkind

Gavriel Lipkind, an intriguing and dynamic musician on stage, is also a person of great creativity and thought, intellectual involvement and kindness.
Born in 1977 in Israel to a family of immigrants from Moscow, Lipkind enjoyed a stellar early rise to fame in his early years and appeared in some of the world most prestigious venues with orchestras such as the Israel Philharmonic, the Munich Philharmonic and the Baltimore Symphony, working alongside outstanding musicians such as Zubin Mehta, Philippe Entremont, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Yehudi Menuhin, Pinchas Zukerman, Yuri Bashmet and Gidon Kremer. Having graduated from three major academies on three continents and having won more than a dozen top prizes in major competitions, Lipkind found himself at the pinnacle of his youthful achievements.
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote of him:“A new star ascends the cello sky [...] The young Israeli cellist is one of the major musicians to have entered the music scene in recent years.“ (Ellen Kohlhaas 1997)In spite of his fulminant success as a young cellist, Lipkind decided aged 23 to take a sabbatical to focus wholly on the innermost aspects of his musicianship.
With the precognition of an old man, Lipkind relocates into a small village in the Taunus mountains near Frankfurt and spends the next three years working reflectively on his repertoire, liaising with composers, experimenting with new instruments, considering new approaches to established formations, giving masterclasses and producing recordings of the highest order.
Finally, in the end of 2006 Lipkind chooses to release two contrasting albums concurrently: Miniatures and Folklore, featuring his own arrangements and Single Voice Polyphony, showcasing Bach´s Cello Suites.
At this pivotal point these two contrasting recordings showed him moving from strength to strength as a conceptual musician with an own compositional voice and a true expressive virtuoso with a deep knowledge of the cello. 100000 sold CDs and 4 reprints later, these recording have long become celebrated jewels and collector´s items in the wide music world.

The fulminant success of these self-produced recordings gradually moved the artist away from his isolated lifestyle, and brought him back on stage.Lipkind is now referred to by the press as an „Iconoclastic Thinker“, a "Cello Monk", a "Nano-musician", and a "Maverick".
His dynamic minimalist performances of the great German masters are "[...]an impossible breed of extremes", With the seemingly unbridled panache of a rockstar Lipkind manages to converse the intimate laws of musical space/time.
10 years later, Lipkind's unique brand of musicianship quietly inspire a new modern audience. These audience are characterized by an unusual diversity of age, interests, layers of society, and levels of erudition. Besides the well known masterworks, Lipkind´s repertoire encompassed numerous rarities, newly commissioned works, own arrangements, and a daring approach to chamber music.

He tours with outstanding orchestras and conductors,  most recently worth noting Mariinsky Theatre under Valery Gergiev, Tokyo Metropolitan under Eliyahu Inbal, and Brussels Philharmonic under Anthony Wit.

However, the very core of Lipkind's artistic life will always remain his solo recital performances of Bach and related pieces titled:“Bible of the Cello“.These one-man-shows reflect everything Lipkind stands for, his early childhood love to the music of J.S.Bach and fascination by the rich polyphony within a single voice.