ELI KALMAN, Pianist

Pianist ELI KALMAN, has performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician in Romania, Israel, Germany, Hungary, Japan, United States and Canada. Hailing from Romania and Israel, he was the recipient of the Paul Collins Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship for Excellence at UW-Madison. He has performed on San Francisco Performances and "Tuesday Evening Concert Series" in Virginia, on the Emmanuel Music-Schumann Chamber Series in Boston, the "Connoisseur Series" at Wichita State University, Myra Hess Series in Chicago and on other various venues. He was for three years an enthusiastic artist-in-residence at the Chamber Music Festival at Banff, Canada and since 2004 he was a frequent guest artist at the Token Creek Festival. In 2001, he recorded the works for solo piano and cello and piano by Erwin Junger and in 2006 Robert Schumann's Sonatas for Violin and Piano with violinist Rose Mary Harbison. Other recordings of his recitals have been heard on Jerusalem Radio and for the most part on Wisconsin NPR and WFMT in Chicago. His latest recording with cellist Amit Peled "The Jewish Soul" was released on Centaur Records in 2009. In 2005, Dr. Kalman joined the piano faculty at the Young Artist Seminars at Rocky Rige Music Center, CO. and since 2006 he serves as Professor of Piano at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh. He is also on the piano faculty at the association "Maestro", which is a non-profit organization in Israel that provides a home base for accomplished Israeli musicians living abroad.

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