30/03/2026
Meet the masterclass teachers for Zeist Music Days 2026!
Alexander Pavlovsky is co-founder and first violinist of the world-renowned Jerusalem Quartet, as well as a versatile and internationally sought-after chamber musician, soloist and educator. He was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, and completed his education at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. With the Jerusalem Quartet he celebrated triumphs in such concert halls as the Tonhalle Zurich, the Münchner Herkulessaal, Wigmore Hall in London, the Salle Pleyel in Paris and the Berliner Konzerthaus.
As a soloist and chamber musician, he has been a guest at international festivals in Verbier, Schleswig-Holstein, Gstaad, Rheingau, Salzburg and Amsterdam, as well as at the Schubertiade in Austria, among others. Alexander Pavlovsky has collaborated with such renowned musicians as Sir András Schiff, Daniel Barenboim, Mitsuko Uchida, Jessye Norman, Alexander Melnikov, Denis Kozhukhin, Menahem Pressler, Natalia Gutman and Joshua Bell.
His many CD recordings with the Jerusalem Quartet have accounted for three BBC Music Magazine Awards and several Diapasons D’Or. Since 2022 Alexander Pavlovsky holds a professorship in the field of chamber music for strings at the University of Graz, and since 2009 he has been artistic director of the Zeist Music Days & Masterclasses, where he
passionately imparts his knowledge to talented young musicians.
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