{"id":34498,"date":"2025-03-19T11:56:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T11:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jmc.org.il\/leonid_kerbel\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T14:39:00","slug":"leonid_kerbel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jmc.org.il\/en\/leonid_kerbel\/","title":{"rendered":"leonid_kerbel"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"34498\" class=\"elementor elementor-34498 elementor-34487\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0b3fab4 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0b3fab4\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-deaa410\" data-id=\"deaa410\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0d8d27b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"0d8d27b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Leonid Kerbel<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7a7b035 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7a7b035\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Born in Kharkov, Leonid Kerbel began violin at four with Prof. Kozlovicher, then studied in Moscow with Prof. Yankilevich, and after immigrating to Israel at eleven continued with Prof. Yair Kless.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br\/>He is the founder, President and Artistic Director of the Musica Mundi International Chamber Music Course and Festival (est. 1999) and the Musica Mundi School in Belgium (est. 2018), a full academic and professional programme for highly talented musicians aged 10 to 18. Since 2014 he has been a permanent faculty member of the Royal College of Music in London, where he had given masterclasses regularly since 2011. His teaching career began in 1985, when at 23 he was appointed to the faculty of the Sewanee Summer Music Festival in the United States, where he taught for fifteen years.  <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br\/>His students have won prizes at the Queen Elisabeth, Wieniawski, Sibelius, Szymanowski, Bach, and Postacchini competitions, and have continued their studies at Curtis, Juilliard, the Royal College and Royal Academy in London, the Barenboim-Said Akademie, and the Hanns Eisler Hochschule.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br\/>As a performer he has appeared alongside Maxim Vengerov, Ivry Gitlis, Menahem Pressler, Janine Jansen, Paul Badura-Skoda, Nicholas Angelich and Itamar Golan, and has served as first violin of the Gertler, Horta and Contrast quartets and member of Trio Sonnetto.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-70a0613\" data-id=\"70a0613\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9ef2875 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"9ef2875\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jmc.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/karbel.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-34491\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jmc.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/karbel.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.jmc.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/karbel-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jmc.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/karbel-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leonid Kerbel Born in Kharkov, Leonid Kerbel began violin at four with Prof. Kozlovicher, then studied in Moscow with Prof. Yankilevich, and after immigrating to Israel at eleven continued with Prof. Yair Kless. 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