Daniel Gortler

Daniel Gortler (Hebrew: דניאל גורטלר; born April 12, 1965) is an Israeli pianist.

Daniel Gortler דניאל גורטלר
Background information
Born	Tel Aviv, Israel
Genres	Classical
Occupation	Pianist

Education and early life

Born and raised in Israel, Gortler began studying classical music and piano with Naomi Hachohen. He graduated from the Rubin Music Academy in Tel-Aviv and continued his musical studies at the Musikhochschule Hannover, studying with Arie Vardi.^[1]

Gortler was faculty member of the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel-Aviv University until 2011. From 2011 to 2013, he was a guest artist in piano studies in the Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions at New York University's Steinhardt School.^[2]

Career

As a soloist, Gortler has performed with orchestras including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Bochum Orchestra, the New World Symphony Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Huston Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony as well as orchestras in Brazil and South Africa.^[3][4] He has worked with conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Christoph Eschenbach, Valery Gergiev and Michael Tilson Thomas.^[5]

Gortler has performed in festivals such as the Montpellier Festival, Lucerne Festival and Israel Festival. A collaboration with Pinchas Zukerman resulted in an original video recording of Marc Neikrug's "Through Roses".^[1]

Gortler has performed chamber music with artists including Nikolaj Znaider, Bo Skovhus, Steven Isserlis, Sergey Ostrovsky, Daniel Johannsen, David Garrett, the Shanghai Quartet and the Jupiter Quartet.^[6][4]

Personal life

Gortler is gay, and his life partner is architect Charles Renfro of Diller Scofidio + Renfro.^[7]

Awards

• Third place – Geneva International Piano Competition^[6]

Recordings

Gortler has recorded several albums with Romeo Records:

• Songs without Words^[8]
• Schubert Lieder with Sharon-Rostorf Zamir^[9]
• Schumann: Symphonic Etudes & Faschingsschwank aus Wien^[10]

In 2023, Gortler released his debut album with Prospero Classical, featuring a selection of Edvard Grieg's Lyric Pieces. The album, titled "Daniel Gortler plays Edvard Grieg - Lyric Pieces," includes 21 of Gortler's personal favorites from Grieg's collection of 66 short character pieces.^[11]