Gavriel Lipkind

Gavriel Lipkind was born in 1977 in Tel Aviv

Gavriel Lipkind was born in Tel Aviv in 1977. He was the second child of an academic family of immigrants. He started playing the cello at age 6 and first performed on radio at age 8.

He studied at the music academy of Tel Aviv University with cellist Uzi Wiesel. He was exempted from military service and left Israel to study abroad. He graduated from the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts and the New England Conservatory.

Lipkind won awards at cello competitions in Paris and Washington, D.C. He worked with Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet, Pinchas Zukerman and Yehudi Menuhin. He played as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.

In 2002 he stopped touring for 3 years to study music, record and revise his repertoire. In 2006 he released 2 albums, including the 6 Bach cello suites. He later founded the Lipkind Quartet and teaches master classes in several countries.

Lipkind lives in a nature preserve north of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He is married to the violinist Anna Lipkind.