Janna Gandelman ^People

Since 1993 Gandelman serves as principle violinist ofIsrael's leading ensembles, including Musica Nova, the 21st Century Music Ensemble, the Caprizma Ensemble and the Rishon le-Zion Soloists Quartet. She performed as a soloist with mostorches-tras in Israel, including the Israeli Opera Orchestra, the Haifa Symphony Orchestra, Beersheva Simonette, the Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra and Israeli Camerata Jerusa- lem. She has played under conductors such as Mendi Rodan, Noam Sheriff, Gary Ber-tini, Avner Biron, Asher Fish, Doron Solomon and others.In 1996 she played asguest leader in the Flemish Chamber Orchestra. In 1997- 1998 Gandelman served as concertmaster of the Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra and be-tween 1998-2001 she had led the Stage Orchestra of Israel. In2001 Gandelman became the concertmaster of the Israeli Camerata Jerusalem. Since 2009 she has been serving as the concertmaster at the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, IBA, as well as first violin in the Sapphire String Quartet, (alongside Roman Spitzer, Amos Boasson and Oleg Stolpner) - an ensemble dedicated to performing and recording music from Purcell to contemporary music.Gandelman performed in chamber music concerts with re- nowned musicians such as Isaac Stern, Gideon Kremer, Eliso Virsaladze and Asher Fisch. She regularly takes part in international festivals such as the Red Sea Festival, the Abu Gosh Festival, the Israel Festival, the Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival, etc.