Tamar Halperin & hr-Bigband
Biography Tamar Halperin & hr-Bigband
Tamar Halperin
Keyboard virtuoso Tamar Halperin is not your typical musician. It’s rumored that her home is a museum of obscure keyboards, and that she can tell the difference between a clavichord and a virginal by smell alone (although that’s not entirely true).
She is an award winning pianist and a world-renowned harpsichordist, an avid athlete and an excellent tennis player, who writes pop songs with the same ease as she does academic articles. She is a specialist on Johann Sebastian Bach with a doctorate from the Juilliard School, interested in Baroque music as much as she is in Electronica. She has won awards for classical music performance on piano; for baroque music on harpsichord; for academic work; and for multi-keyboard, new jazz music; and the Hessian Cultural Prize, for forging cultural bridges. Tamar Halperin has worked with star musicians across genres, among them: baroque singer Andreas Scholl, jazz pianist Michael Wollny, Israeli pop icon Idan Raichel, DJ & electronic music producer Marc Romboy, and renowned ensembles in various genres, such as Czech Ensemble Baroque, Morphing Chamber Orchestra, King’s College Choir, and the HR Big Band.
Tamar performs, composes, arranges, teaches, gives lectures, and writes about music. Her wish is to to share the beauty & wisdom of classical music and bring it to new audiences.
