Amihai Grosz has enjoyed a unique career path to date, having founded the Jerusalem Quartet in 1995, and later being appointed Principal Violist of the renowned Berlin Philharmonic in 2010. Invitations for solo work soon followed and have expanded in recent years to include collaborations with conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Daniel Barenboim, Sir Simon Rattle, Tugan Sokhiev, Klaus Mäkelä, Nathalie Stutzmann, Ingo Metzmacher, Lionel Bringuier, and Ariel Zukermann. Previously, he has performed as soloist with orchestras such as the Finnish Radio Symphony, Warsaw Philharmonic, Danish National Symphony, Swedish Radio Symphony, Barcelona Symphony, National Symphony of Ireland, and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra. Amihai commenced his 2023-2024 season at the inaugural Tsindali Festival in Georgia, joining Gianandrea Noseda, Augustin Hadelich, and the Pan-Caucasian Youth Orchestra for Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante, a piece he also reprised alongside long-time collaborator Janine Jansen at the 30th anniversary edition of the esteemed Verbier Festival in 2023. The start of 2024 featured a tour to the Guangzhou Xinghai Concert Hall, Shenzhen Concert Hall, and Hong Kong Cultural Centre with Daniel Harding and Vilde Frang as part of the 2024 Youth Music Culture the Greater Bay Area, which involved a two-week educational residency with over 100 young musicians from all around China. Read Less
Amihai’s other recent and forthcoming highlights include engagements with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe at the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie with violinist Veronika Eberle, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony (Alan Gilbert), Orchestre National de Lyon (Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider), Palermo Orchestra Sinfonica del Teatro Massimo (Omer Meir Wellber), Grand Teton Festival Orchestra (Donald Runnicles), Concert de la Loge with violinist Julien Chauvin, and the Orchestre National de Lille (Alexandre Bloch).
Amihai remains extremely fond of his chamber music collaborations, and has worked with artists such as Yefim Bronfman, Mitsuko Uchida, Daniel Hope, Eric Le Sage, Janine Jansen, Julian Steckel, Daishin Kashimoto, and David Geringas. Internationally, he can be heard regularly at the most prestigious concert halls such as the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Zurich Tonhalle, Wigmore Hall, and the Philharmonie Luxembourg, as well as at leading festivals such as the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Evian, Verbier, and Delft festivals, the BBC Proms, and the Utrecht International Chamber Music Festival.
Signed exclusively to the Alpha Classics label, Amihai’s first concerto album, released in autumn 2023, featured the Bartok Viola Concerto with the Orchestra National de Lille and Alexander Bloch, with a subsequent release planned for late 2024.
Amihai first started playing viola at age 11, having previously started on violin. He was taught by David Chen in Jerusalem, then later on by Tabea Zimmermann in Frankfurt and Berlin as well as in Tel Aviv by Haim Taub, the latter of whom had a formative influence on him. He received various grants and prizes at a very early age and was a member of the ‘Young Musicians Group’ of the Jerusalem Music Center, a program for outstanding young musical talents. He is based in Berlin and plays a 1570 Gasparo da Salò viola on loan for life from a private collection.

Paul Meyer is not only one of the outstanding clarinetists worldwide and performs regularly with the major orchestras in Europe and the USA, in the Far East and Australia, since 1988 he has also worked internationally as a conductor alongside his solo career. He is the founder of the Orchester de Chambre d'Alsace, was assistant to John Crewe at the Northern Junior Philharmonic in England and was appointed Associate Chief Conductor of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra by Myung Whun Chung in 2007, whose international profile he has above all with a French repertoire and works by Roussel, Dukas and Saint-Saëns. Paul Meyer is a co-founder of the orchestra academy there for young artists. From 2009 to 2012, Paul Meyer was chief conductor of the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra and has since worked with well-known orchestras such as the Orchester Philharmonique de Radio France, the Orchester Philharmonique de Nice, l'Orchestre National de Bordeaux, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Flemish Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Danish Symphony Orchestra or the China Philharmonic, his artistic work to date is on more than 50 CDs Documented recordings with leading labels, including DGG, Sony, RCA, EMI and Virgin; for this he was awarded numerous prizes such as Fono-Forum, Diapason d'Or, Choc du Monde de la Musique, Gramophon and Grammy Awards. His recordings as a conductor with the Camerata Padova (piano concerts by Mozart and Haydn with JM Luisada), with the Royal Philharmonique de Liège (works by Darius Milhaud) and the Brussels Philharmonic (works by Corigliano & Carter), with the Staatskapelle Weimar (cello concert by Elgar & Walton) as well as horn concerts from different epochs with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and the highly successful CD "Bolero de Meyer" with the Tokyo Kosei Orchestra. His series of Play & Conduct recordings with the Orchester de Chambre de Lausanne has won awards.
In the series of chamber orchestras previously conducted by Paul Meyer, only the following are mentioned: Orchester de Chambre de Paris, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Stockholm Cham-ber Orchestra, Prague Philharmonia, Prague Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and the Munich chamber Orchestra.
In 2012, the French state Paul Meyer awarded the highest cultural award of the "Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" for its musical achievements to date.
In autumn 2018, Paul Meyer was unanimously elected to succeed Johannes Schlaefli as the new chief conductor of the Chamber Orchestra Mannheim, in whose hands the artistic development of the traditional orchestra will lie from the 2019/2020 season.