Former students

For Uzi Wiesel, teaching and passing on his knowledge was one of the most important aspects of his musical life. Cellists from all ages and from all corners of the globe received advice from Uzi either at the University in formal studies, in master classes and in informal settings. Uzi was warm, demanding and flexible. His ability to adapt himself to so many students came from the experience of developing his own way of solving instrumental difficulties and his remarkable analytical capacity to open the eyes and ears of students to understanding musical language.

Listing former students is a difficult task, as there were so many of them. The list below is not a full list of students, but we have tried to include as many as we could remember or find in archival material. If your name is missing from the list and you would like to have your name included, please send us an email so we can add it. We have also listed some relevant information that we have about cellists. If there should be any corrections needed, please let us know and we will revise the description.

The list is in alphabetical order of family name.

Liam Abramson - Performing Musician

Yoram Alperin - Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

Irit Assias - Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra

Ohad Bar-David - Phildelphia Orchestra

Maya Beiser - Performing Musician

Ariana Burstein - Performing Musician

Ofer Canetti - Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra

Ithay Chen - Kibutz Orchestra

Uri Chen - Kibutz Orchestra

Michael Croitoru-Weissman - Performing Musician / movie producer

Shoshana Dan - Performing Musician

Ulrike Eickenbusch - Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra

Leonard Eischenbroich - Performing Musician

Irit Eisenberg - Israel/South Africa

Anat Engelmeyer - Performing Musician

Naomi Enoch - Israel philharmonic Orchestra

Hila Epstein - Performing Musician

Amit Even-Tov - Performing Musician

Andreas Fischer - Austria

Ingrid Fisher Bellman - Performing Musician

Pamela Frame - USA

Honoka Fujita - Fujita Piano Trio

Guy Gadaev - Performing Musician

Chagit Glaser - Performing Musician

Dana Glaser - Singer

Dmitry Golderman - Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

Alvaro Gonzales - Performing Musician

Emanuel Gruber - Performing Musician and Educator

Naftali Gurevitch - Performing Musician

Yehuda Hanani - Performing Musician

Roy Harran - Performing Musician and Educator

Sagi Hartov - Performing Musician, Executive Chairman / London College of Contemporary Arts

Simca Heled - Performing Musician

Iris Jortner - Performing Musician

Eliezer Kagan - Performing Musician

Alexander Kaganowsky - Performing Musician

Michal Kalekin Schmidt - Performing Musician

Hod Kalmus - Performing Musician

Hila Karni - Performing Musician

Michael Katz - Boston Symphony Orchestra

Raz Kohn - Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon Lezion

Michal Korman - Performing Artist

Karol Kowalik - Orava Quartet

David Krieger - Performing Artist

Daniel Lachish - Ben Gurion University

Wolfgang Laufer - Fine Arts Quartet/Bayreuth Festival

Almut Lessing - Teacher

Gideon Lewinson - Cellist/Composer, Bar Ilan University

Gavriel Lipkind - Performing Musician

Shmuel Magen - Jerusalem Academy of Music

Andrea Markos - Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon Lezion

Mathis Mayr - Performing Musician

Inbal Megiddo - Performing Musician

Doron Mendels - Hebrew University

Jaque Mendelssohn - Canada

Kirill Mihanovsky - Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

Chloe Miller - Performing Musician

Zvi Moshkowsky - Israel/Holland

Johannes Oesterlee - Frankfurt Opera Orchestra

Daniel Oren - Conductor

Zvi Orleansky - The Israel Camerata Orchestra

Roswitha Pevzner - Ramat Gan Symphony Orchestra

Gideon Pick - Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon Lezion

Christopher Pidcock - Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Jan Radzynski - Composer

Thoma Rann - Performing Musician

Roberto Ring - Performing Musician

Yael Rubinstein - Divan Orchestra

Janine Ryan - Performing Musician

Gertrud Schilde - Performing Musician

Inbal Segev - Performing Musician

David (Dudu) Sela - Educator

David Shamban -Performing Musician

Daniel Shteinitz - Israel/USA

Hanno Simons - Bayerische Rundfunk Orchestra

David Starkweather - University Of Georgia

Frances Stevens - Performing Musician

Doron Toister - Rishon Lezion Orchestra, Performing Artist

Uri Vardi - Israel Chamber Orchestra, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Professor of Cello

Tamás Varga - Vienna Philharmonic solo cellist

Ran Varon - Performing Musician / Teacher

Thomas Vitek - Performing Musician

Shimon Walt - Performing Musician / Teacher

Ehud Weber - Performing Musician

Yifaat Weltman - Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

Selena Wiesel - Last student

David Witzthum - TV presenter

Caleb Wong - Performing Musician

Kyril Zlotnikov - Jerusalem Quartet

Hillel Zori - Prof. for Cello Buchman Mehta School Tel-Aviv, Performing Artist

Gertler Quartet - Israel

Orava Quartet - Australia

Voces Quartet - Romania

Special mention -

Naomi Kaplan - Longtime piano accompanist of the Cello class at the Tel Aviv Music Academy