Rivka Golani has performed as soloist with many orchestras throughout the world including the Boston Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw, BBC Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, Hong Kong Symphony, Singapore Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic, Tokyo Metropolitan, Montreal Symphony and the Toronto Symphony.
12 Facts About Rivka Golani
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Rivka Golani was Ambassador of Canadian Music for the Canadian Music Centre in 2009.
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Rivka Golani has been honoured with awards by the Blackfoot First Nations People of Canada.
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Rivka Golani received The Eagle Feather in 2011 and a Blackfoot appelation: 'Itspankiyakii' - 'A woman who sings from a high place' in 2016.
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Rivka Golani holds a professorship at Trinity College of Music in London and has taught at Birmingham Conservatoire, the University of Toronto, and London's Royal Academy of Music.
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Rivka Golani received an honourary Doctor of Fine Arts from Lethbridge University, Canada, for services to classical music.
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Rivka Golani took up the violin at age 7, while her sister Bela learned the cello.
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Rivka Golani became a pupil of the violinist Alexander Moskowsky at age 18.
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Rivka Golani switched to viola at age 21 and studied with the violist Oedoen Partos, and became a member of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Rivka Golani married the Hungarian luthier Otto Erdesz, and in 1974 the couple moved to Canada, where she gave birth to her son Micha Eden Erdesz.
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Rivka Golani later returned to Canada briefly before she married again.
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Rivka Golani is a painter and has exhibited in America, Canada, Israel and the UK.