Uri
Smilansky was born and brought up in Israel where he is well known as a
performer on both recorder and viola da gamba. Whilst there he won a
number of competitions; including first prize in the Aviv Competition
for Early Music, second prize in the Haifa International Recorder
Competition and for the last 12 years has enjoyed scholarships from the
America-Israel Cultural Foundation. He studied with Gershon Prensky,
Drora Bruck and Myrna Herzog, among others, and taught recorder at the
Petach-Tikva conservatoire, and coached ensembles in the Thekma-Yelin
school for Music and the Arts. In 2001 he moved to Basel
to study vielle with Randall Cook and recorder with Conrad Steinmann and
Corina Marti in the prestigious Medieval department of the Schola
Cantorum Basiliensis, from where he graduated with honours in 2005.
In
addition to his studies he worked as an assistant to Anthony Rooley,
coaching a project of Renaissance polyphony, and Crawford Young,
teaching ‘pure Organum’ improvisation. He performs worldwide and has
taken part in many recordings and radio broadcasts with a number of both
medieval and baroque ensembles including La Morra, the Earle his Viols,
the Phoenix ensemble and Dulce Melos, as well as being co-director of Le
Basile.
Uri
Smilansky was born and brought up in Israel where he is well known as a
performer on both recorder and viola da gamba. Whilst there he won a
number of competitions; including first prize in the Aviv Competition
for Early Music, second prize in the Haifa International Recorder
Competition and for the last 12 years has enjoyed scholarships from the
America-Israel Cultural Foundation. He studied with Gershon Prensky,
Drora Bruck and Myrna Herzog, among others, and taught recorder at the
Petach-Tikva conservatoire, and coached ensembles in the Thekma-Yelin
school for Music and the Arts. In 2001 he moved to Basel
to study vielle with Randall Cook and recorder with Conrad Steinmann and
Corina Marti in the prestigious Medieval department of the Schola
Cantorum Basiliensis, from where he graduated with honours in 2005.