Sharon Kam
German clarinetist
Sharon Kam (Hebrew: שרון קם; born August 11, 1971) is an Israeli–German clarinetist who performs internationally as a soloist. She won the ARD International Music Competition in 1992. Since October 2022, she has also been Professor for Clarinet at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover.
Biography
Sharon Kam started playing the piano at the age of 5, then the recorder at the age of 7, which she played until she was 15. She began playing the clarinet at the age of 12 and received a scholarship from the Jewish-American Cultural Society after just one year. From 1989, she studied for four years on a full scholarship at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, one year with David Shifrin and then with Charles Neidich.
In 1987, Kam performed as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in Mozart's Clarinet Concerto under the direction of Zubin Mehta, who then invited her to tour with the orchestra in Canada. In 1990, she was the soloist in a joint historic concert by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall.
In 1992, she won the ARD International Music Competition (second prize, the first was not awarded), followed a year later by the Davidoff Prix. In 1998 she received the ECHO Klassik Prize as "Instrumentalist of the Year" for her CD recording of the Weber concertos with the Gewandhaus Orchestra conducted by Kurt Masur.
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