Shaham, Gil (1971- )

US violinist. He studied at the Rubin Academy, Jerusalem, and with Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School, New York. He played with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in 1982, under Mehta. He subsequently appeared with the London Symphony Orchestra at the London Barbican Centre, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Munich, and the Philadelphia Orchestra on tour to South America (1988). In 1989 he performed with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestre de Paris. His gifts were best displayed in such Romantic repertory as the concertos by Bruch and Sibelius.