Sivan Magen (born 1980) is an Israeli harpist.
Raised in
Jerusalem in a musical family, the child of two cellists, Magen started his musical studies at the piano with Benjamin Oren and Talma Cohen, and first tried the harp when his family moved to
France for a sabbatical. He continued his harp studies with Irena Kaganovski-Kessler in the
Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance
The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance ( he, האקדמיה למוסיקה ולמחול בירושלים), is a school for the music and the performing arts in Jerusalem. It is located on the Givat Ram campus of the Hebrew University of Jerus ...
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Later he moved to France on his own, where his teachers included Germaine Lorenzini. Magen studied at the
Conservatoire National Superieure in Paris, under the guidance of
Isabelle Moretti
Isabelle Moretti (born 5 May 1964 in Lyon) is a French classical harpist.
Biography
Moretti studied harp at the Conservatoire de Lyon, then at the Conservatoire de Paris where she is a teacher.
In 2006, she premiered the harp concertos by Phil ...
, where he was a ''Premier Prix'' winner. Magen continued his studies at the
Juilliard School with
Nancy Allen, and earned a Master's degree. In 2006, he became the first, and to date only, Israeli to win the
International Harp Contest in Israel
The International Harp Contest in Israel is a harp competition. Founded in 1959 by Aharon Zvi Propes in the city of Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arab ...
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In 2012, Magen won the
Borletti-Buitoni Trust award. At Juilliard, Magen met fellow Israeli musicians such as pianist Assaff Weisman and clarinetist Tibi Cziger, and the three of them were among the co-founders of the Israeli Chamber Project.
Magen also co-founded the chamber ensemble Tre Voci. He has taught at
Brooklyn College
Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York. It is part of the City University of New York system and enrolls about 15,000 undergraduate and 2,800 graduate students on a 35-acre campus.
Being New York City's first publ ...
. With the 2017-2018 season, Sivan became principal harp of the
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (Finnish: ''Radion sinfoniaorkesteri'', Swedish: ''Radions symfoniorkester'') is a Finnish broadcast orchestra based in Helsinki, and the orchestra of the Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yle). The orchestra prima ...
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Magen has recorded commercially for
Linn Records, and also for such labels as ECM and Avie.
References
External links
Burletti-Buitoni Trust biography of Sivan MagenIsraeli Chamber Project page on Sivan MagenLinn Records page on album 'Fantasien'
Linn Records page on album 'French Reflections'Harp Column.com blog, '9 things you don’t know about Sivan Magen', 3 June 2014Carnegie Hall, 21 October 2014 programmeKaufman Music Center, New York City, 18 April 2015 programmeJason Victor Serinus, 'Nicholas Phan Embraces Britten'. ''San Francisco Classical Voice'' blog, 14 November 2012*
ttp://www.classicalmusiccity.com/search/article.php?vars=957/Interview-with-harpist-Sivan-Magen.html Ilona Oltuski, 'Fresh sounding promise of David’s harp'. ClassicalMusicCity.com blogUniversity of Texas - Austin, biography of Sivan Magen
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Classical harpists
Juilliard School alumni
Living people
1980 births
Brooklyn College faculty