Zvi Meniker

Harpsichordist, organist, fortepianist and conductor Zvi Meniker was
born in Moscow and raised in Israel. He began advanced musical studies
at the age of 15. Meniker received diplomas with distinction from the
Salzburg Mozarteum and the Zurich Academy of Music, where he studied
with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Johann Sonnleitner, before moving on to
the USA to study with Malcolm Bilson at Cornell University.

Zvi Meniker commands a wide repertoire on his three instruments
ranging from late medieval works to 20th-century compositions. He has
also won numerous awards at international competitions.

Zvi Meniker taught harpsichord and performance practice at Duke
University, USA, and is a regular faculty member at the annual Early
Music Workshop in Jerusalem. After teaching at the Mendelssohn
Conservatory in Leipzig, Germany, he accepted a professorship at the
Hannover Conservatory, where he currently teaches harpsichord,
fortepiano and performance practice. He is also a visiting professor
at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel-Aviv. His doctoral
dissertation, recently completed, is on the Performance Practice of
Fr. Chopin's piano works.

He has led several large-scale productions in Germany and France,
among them a "double bill" of J. Blow's "Venus and Adonis" and
Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas." His two regular chamber ensembles are:
Trio de l'Oustal (with recorder player Heiko ter Schegget and gambist
Mieneke van der Velden) for works of the Baroque period, and Trio
Parole (with violinist Philippe Couvert and cellist Andrea Fossà) for
the classical and early romantic repertoire.