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Tamar Sagiv

Tamar is an Israeli classical Cellist living in New York City

About Me

On May 9th, 2022 Tamar played her solo debut concert in Carnegie Hall. She started her cello studies at the age of 8 with her teacher Uri Chen in the Kfar Blum Music Center, a small village in the northern part of Israel. At 14 she moved to Jerusalem to study at the Israeli Arts and Science Academy with Prof. Hillel Zori. At 15 she played as a soloist with the Kibbutz Youth Orchestra in their tour in Germany and played as a soloist with the Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra under conductor Yaron Gotfrid. Tamar participated in master classes with Steven Isserlis, Ralph Kirshbaum, Gary Hoffman, Frans Helmerson and attended festivals in Israel, Europe and the US. She performed concerts in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall and the NYPL in NYC and recorded broadcasts to the Israeli National Radio. In 2014 she won the 3rd prize and the honorary mention at the Buchmann Mehta school of Music Chamber Music Competition. Tamar received scholarships from the AICF and the Ronen Foundation. She received a certificate of honor from Maestro Zubin Mehta and The Buchmann Mehta School of Music for outstanding achievements in the orchestra training program in cooperation with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra. Tamar studied her Bachelor’s Degree at the Buchmann Mehta school of Music in Tel Aviv University with Chagit Glaser and Felix Nemirovsky. She graduated from the Mannes School of Music in NYC with a Master's Degree and currently studying in the PDPL program at Mannes with Prof. Matt Haimovitz.