Scholarship for Bar Avni

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The Israeli conductor Bar Avni, HfMT alumna (concert exam) from Ulrich Windfuhr's conducting class, receives the Kurt Masur Scholarship 2021/22 of the Impuls Festival for New Music Saxony-Anhalt.

The scholarship is linked to concert conducting at the Impuls Festival and musical assistance for the annual contemporary music theater production at the Halle Opera. From 2022, Avni will have the opportunity to be a musical assistant for the music theater production "Traumspiel" by Aribert Reimann. The idea for the scholarship was born in 2018 when Tomoko Masur, patron of the Impulse Festival and President of the International Kurt Masur Institute, experienced young conductors, soloists and composers in the festival program.
The IMPULS Festival for New Music Saxony-Anhalt has been awarding an IMPULS Conducting Scholarship in cooperation with the International Kurt Masur Institute and the Halle Opera since 2019.

Biography

Born in Israel, the conductor has lived in Germany for three years. Avni, who completed her concert exam at the HfMT in Hamburg, is a student of the renowned conductors Yoav Talmi, Martin Sieghart and Ulrich Windfuhr as well as David de Villiers.
Before Bar Avni left Israel to do her master's degree, she gained experience in classical percussion and played with all the leading Israeli orchestras. She studied bassoon as a second instrument.

One of the highlights of the 2019/20 season was her debut with the Staatskapelle Halle and the Harz Symphony Orchestra as part of the IMPULS Festival. At the beginning of 2020, Avni made her debut in the Elbphilharmonie with the Camerata Hamburg and with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in the Charles Bronfman Hall in Tel Aviv.
Avni has received numerous awards, including second place and the coveted orchestra prize at the 10th Fitelberg Conducting Competition in Katowice, Poland, in November 2017. This recognition led to her debut with several Polish orchestras, including Sinfonia Varsovia and Opolska Filharmonia. After performing with Maestro Jaap van Zweden and Professor Johannes Schlaefli at the Yehudi Menuhin Festival's Gstaad Conducting Academy in 2018, Avni was nominated for the Neeme Järvi Prize. She was then invited to take part in the 2019 Conducting Academy with Maestro Manfred Honeck. During her studies, Avni worked as an assistant conductor with the Israeli Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Yoav Talmi in the 2013/14 season and with the Bergische Symphoniker under the direction of Peter Kuhn in 2017/18. There she conducted and presented many open-air and family concerts with great success and returned as a guest conductor in the 2019/20 season.

Avni gained opera experience with the chamber opera "Simplicius Simplicissimus" by Karl A. Hartmann. She previously produced an abridged version of "Fairy Queen" by Henry Purcell. In 2019, she conducted the German premiere of the Chinese short opera based on the French film "L'Accordeur".