David Shimoni, Pianist Young Artist Winner of 2001

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The winner of the 2001 National Federation of Music Clubs Young Artist Award for Piano, David Shimoni is an active concert artist praised for his passionate intensity and poetic sensitivity.  In recent years Mr. Shimoni has performed in New York’s Alice Tully Hall, Museum of Modern Art, Caspary Auditorium, Trinity Church, and Joyce Theater. He has been a guest artist at the Brevard and Foothills Music Festivals and on WFMY-TV in North Carolina, and he has appeared as a soloist with the Swarthmore College Orchestra and the Transylvania Symphony Orchestra.  Other awards he has received have been first prizes in the National Federation of Music Clubs Student Competition, the Five Towns Young Musicians Competition, and the Baldwin Young Artists Regional Auditions. 

            In addition to performing the standard repertoire, Mr.  Shimoni is very committed to contemporary music, which he has performed in the  “Summergarden” series at the Museum of Modern Art, in the “FOCUS” new music festival at Lincoln Center, and with the New Juilliard Ensemble.

Mr. Shimoni has performed in many schools, libraries, and community centers as part of outreach programs sponsored by the Orchestra of St. Luke's and the Maxwell H. Gluck Foundation. In March 2001, he completed a tour of Louisiana with soprano Raquela Sheeran, which was sponsored by the Piatigorsky Foundation.  He has performed with Toronto Dance Theatre and Juilliard Dance Theatre, and he has also participated in the Aspen, Bowdoin, and Kneisel Hall Summer Music Festivals.

            Mr. Shimoni has Masters degrees in both solo and collaborative piano from The Juilliard School, where he was the recipient of the Vladimir Horowitz Scholarship.  His principal studies were with Yoheved Kaplinsky and Brian Zeger.  Mr. Shimoni attended the North Carolina School of the Arts in high school as a student of Robert McDonald and has a B.A. in biology from Swarthmore College.  

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