featured artist, Saar Berger
Saar Berger, born in 1980, has been a member of the international ensembleEnsemble Modernin
Frankfurt since 2007. He studied at theRubin Music Academy in Tel Aviv before joining theIsraeli
Opera Symphony Orchestra. Thanks to grants and awards from theZvi and Ofra Meitar Family
Fundand the America-Israel Cultural Foundation,he completed his studies in Berlin with Prof.
Neuneckerand in Frankfurt am Main with Prof. Penzeland Prof. Tapani, before winning the solo
horn position with Ensemble Modern.
Saar Berger cooperates closely with many young and internationally established composers and has
been able to enrich the already extensive horn literature by performing many world premieres of
concerts and solo pieces as a soloist. He was a member and horn mentor of the BranimirSlokar
Academyand theLjublijanaInternational Orchestra, and since 2017 he has been part of the
teaching faculty at the Lucerne Festival Academy.
In October 2019, Saar Berger was appointed as the new Horn Professor at the State Music Academy
in Trossingen, Germany.
The new 2018 CD releaseSonorousfor 2 solo horns with original baroque music works for
harpsichord & violin was published by the instrument maker GebruderAlexander HornsfromMainz.
The double CD albumTravelling Pieces,a solo portrait with 17 new world premieres for horn, was
released in 2014 by the Ensemble Modern medialabel.
The Percussion & Horn albumStop & Hornis available from the Slovenian Composers
Associationand was released in2014.
The double CDCalls, Studies & Gameswith the Ensemble Modern Brass Trio—with 20 new
premieres—was released in 2017 on the Ensemble Modern medialabel.