Matan Gilitchensky is a winner of the prestigious “Aviv Competition” in Israel (AICF, 2010) and was awarded the prize for viola as well as the audience prize. He has also won numerous competitions and prizes as a soloist and chamber musician in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Spain and the Czech Republic.
A passionate chamber musician, he has toured throughout Europe and performed at numerous major festivals including the Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Verbier Festival Academy, and Open Chamber Music in Prussia Cove, where he performed with world-class musicians such as Guy Braunstein, Wolfram Christ, Frans Helmerson, Alban Gerhardt, and Máté Sz cs.
Since 2005 Matan Gilitchensky has been supported by scholarships from the AICF and also receives a scholarship from the “Freunde Junger Musiker Berlin”. He is a graduate of the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel Aviv, where he studied in the class of Dr. Lilach Levanon. He is currently perfecting his education at the Berlin University of the Arts with Prof. Hartmut Rohde. Matan Gilitchensky is principal violist with the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra and assistant to Prof. Hartmut Rohde in Berlin. He has also played as a guest with the Berlin Philharmonic and as principal violist in the Cologne Opera Orchestra.
Matan Gilitchensky plays a viola by Francesco Goffriller, on loan to him from his private collection by Yehuda Zisapel.