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Tamar Halperin

Tamar Halperin is an Israeli harpsichordist, pianist and musicologist known for Baroque music and for jazz projects with Michael Wollny.

born 1976Baroque harpsichord performanceWunderkammer albums with Michael WollnySong recordings with Andreas Scholl

Occupation: conductor, harpsichordist, pianist, musicologist
Education: Juilliard School, Tel Aviv University, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis

Tamar Halperin was born in 1976 in Tel Aviv

Tamar Halperin was born in Tel Aviv in 1976 and grew up in Israel. She first followed a path as a tennis player.

She studied music at Tel Aviv University and then at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, focusing on historically informed performance. She earned a PhD on Johann Sebastian Bach at the Juilliard School in New York City.

Her main field is Baroque music, but she also works in contemporary music and jazz. With jazz pianist Michael Wollny she recorded the album Wunderkammer, which won an Echo Jazz award in 2010, and a sequel with the hr-Bigband that also won an Echo Jazz award. In 2012 she recorded the song album Wanderer with her husband, the countertenor Andreas Scholl.

In 2016 she released an album of music by Erik Satie, played on several keyboard instruments. That year she and Scholl received the Hessian Cultural Prize. From 2020 to 2024 she was a visiting fellow in music at Oriel College, University of Oxford.