Global harp superstar Sivan Magen will present a recital of classics and transcriptions during his short stay in NYC from Berlin. Stay after the recital for a wine and cheese reception with the artist. Tickets available to MetroHarp members and non-members at the Zeffy ticket link below.

Described by the NY Times as a "harpist of extraordinary range" whose "brilliant

sound and remarkable technical acumen shatter any stereotype of his instrument",

Sivan Magen is the only Israeli to have ever won the International Harp Contest in

Israel, and is a winner of the Pro Musicis International Award as well as of the

Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award. From 2017-2023 he was principal harpist of the Finnish

Radio Orchestra, and since Summer 2023 he is the professor for harp at the

Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin.

Sivan Magen appeared as a recitalist and as a soloist with orchestras across the US,

South America, East Asia, Europe and Israel, in venues such as Carnegie Hall,

Wigmore Hall, the Sydney Opera House and the Vienna Konzerthaus, and with

orchestras such as the Israel, Tampere and Strasbourg Philharmonics, the Finnish

Radio Orchestra, the Tapiola Sinfonietta, the Jerusalem Camerata, the Saint-Paul,

Vienna and Scottish Chamber Orchestras, and the Sydney, Jerusalem and Israel

Symphony Orchestras.

In addition to two solo albums for Linn records, Magen has released acclaimed

recordings for Avie, Azica, Koch International, ECM, and with Musicians for

Marlboro. His most recent recording for Ondine is of the harp concerto "Sigla" by

Lotta Wennäkoski, commissioned for him by the Finnish Radio Symphony. The

album was the winner of the 2023 Gramophone Award in the "contemporary"

category.

Aside from his activity as a soloist, Mr Magen is an avid chamber musician and has

appeared at the Marlboro, Aspen, Rosendal, Kuhmo, Rauma, Rusk, Delft, Staunton,

Stift, Giverny and Jerusalem International Chamber Music festivals, the Celeveland

and Ottawa Chamberfests, with Musicians from Marlboro, and collaborated with

artists such as Tabea Zimmermann, Antje Weithaas, Nobuko Imai, Shmuel

Ashkenazi, Gary Hoffman, Emmanuel Pahud, Susanna Phillips, the Danel, Pacifica,

Ariel, Calder, New Helsinki and Dover quartets and members of the Guarneri and

Juilliard Quartets.

He is a founding member of trio Tre Voci with flutist Marina Piccinini and violist

Kim Kashkashian, with whom he has toured extensively in Europe and the US, and

has released to great critical acclaim a CD for ECM of music by Debussy,

Gubaidulina and Takemitsu. They are constantly working to expand the flute-viola-

harp repertoire by commissioning arrangements and original pieces - their 2018

program included a new commission of a trio by Toshio Hosokawa which had its

European premiere at London's Wigmore Hall.

In addition to his position in Berlin, Mr Magen teaches at the Musica Mundi School in

Belgium, and was until recently a guest professor at the Academy for Music and

Theater in Tallinn, Estonia. Between 2013-2017 he was a faculty member of the

Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music, and in spring 2017 he was an invited

professor at the Paris Conservatory. He regularly presents masterclasses in schools

such as The Juilliard School, The Curtis Institute, The Peabody Institute, The New

England Conservatory, the Paris Conservatory, London’s Royal Academy, Royal

College, Guildhall School and Trinity College, as well as the summer Academy in

Nice, the Kuhmo Festival Academy in Finland, and the Aspen Music Festival. In

addition, he has been invited to serve as member of the jury of the International Harp

Contest in Israel, the USA International Harp Competition, the Netherlands

International Harp Competition, the Lyon & Healy Awards and the Vera Dulova

International Harp Competition in Moscow, and served as Head of the Jury of the

National Harp Contest in Taiwan and the international harp contest is Szeged,

Hungary.

Born in Jerusalem, Sivan Magen studied the piano with Benjamin Oren and Talma

Cohen and the harp with Irena Kaganovsky-Kessler at the Jerusalem Academy for

Music and Dance. After completing his military service as an "Outstanding Musician"

in 2001, he continued his studies with Germaine Lorenzini in France and then joined

Isabelle Moretti’s harp class at the Paris Conservatory (CNSMDP) from which he

graduated with a “Premier Prix”. He has then completed a Master of Music degree as

a student of Nancy Allen at the Juilliard School in New York.