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“Lorin Maazel, the conductor, once told me: ‘Gil, you will see that music is more fun the older you get.’ He was in his seventies when he told me that… and I think I am beginning to understand what he meant. Each one of these pieces, these great masterpieces, is like a friend, like a person you’ve known for so many years. I enjoy so many of them, more and more as time goes by.”
On 19th February, the Grammy award-winning American-Israeli violinist Gil Shaham celebrates his 50th birthday.
Gil has been gracing stages all over the world since he made his concerto debut aged ten with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra in Israel.