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By Eileen Wingard
 SAN DIEGO— A concert featuring three outstanding young Israeli musicians will take place in Congregation Beth El’s new sanctuary Sunday, November 1 at 6:30 p.m. With its excellent acoustics, the synagogue at 8660 Gilman Drive will provide a marvelous venue in which to hear these talents.
Clarinetist Moran Katz, fresh from winning first prize in Germany’s International Clarinet Competition (10,000 Euros and a debut performance with the Southwest German Radio Orchestra), will be joined by her younger sister, Cellist Linor Katz. The gifted cellist recently soloed with the Czech Radio Orchestra in Prague and performs regularly with the West Eastern Divan Orchestra made up of young Palestinian and Israeli musicians under the direction of Daniel Baremboim. The two young women will be assisted at the piano by Eliran Avni, a pianist who Ma’ariv has hailed as “the new hope of Israeli Music,” and the New York Times lauded for his “ironclad technique and ample suppleness.” All three performers have soloed with the Israel Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta and all three are recipients of America-Israel Culture Foundation grants.
Moran Katz and Eliran Avni have received their degrees from
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the Juilliard School in New York, Moran, her BA and MA, Eliran, his BA, MA and DMA. Linor is attending the New England Conservator in Boston.
Their program will feature solo selections for cello and clarinet, accompanied by the piano, then all three will join forces. The cellist will open with Max Bruch’s “Kol Nidre” to be followed by works by Tchaikowsky and Cassado. The clarinetist will perform Four Souvenirs by Schoenfield, “Samba,” “Tango,” “Tin Pan Alley,” and “Square Dance.”
Moran, Linor and Eliran will form a piano trio for the second half of the program in works by Muczinski and Piazzolla.
Although Moran Katz has been heard in San Diego during several successive years, thanks to the untiring efforts of July Galper, this will be her younger sister Linor's and Eliran Avni's San Diego debut.
Next January 10, July Galper will be receiving special recognition at the AICF Gala Concert in New York for her work on behalf of their scholarship recipients. In addition to Moran Katz, Galper has brought outstanding Israeli artists on the violin, the mandolin, the cello and the piano to San Diego.
She has befriended them and helped nurture the careers of these Israeli talents. Sunday's program promises to be one of the steller evenings which she has helped arrange.
For ticket information, call 858-452-1734
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