Marcelo Ehrlich

Marcelo Ehrlich was born in Sao Paulo in 1964 and began his studies at the city conservatory there, continuing in Boston; after emigrating to Israel in 1983 he worked with Uri Toeplitz, graduated from the Rubin Academy in Tel Aviv and studied further in France and at the Banff Centre in Canada. A third prize at Brazil's Young Artists contest at twelve was followed a year later by the first; a second prize at the wind competition of the Tel Aviv Music Academy and another at the Gerard Bechar competition came in 1986, and the Paul Ben-Haim prize for young performers of Israeli music in 1987. He was principal flute of the Sao Paulo Youth Orchestra and toured Poland with the International Youth Orchestra, later playing alternate piccolo in the Israel Philharmonic, and by 1998 he had served as principal flute of the Haifa Symphony Orchestra since 1990. He gave recitals throughout Israel, played in duo with the guitarist Reuben Seroussi, appeared as soloist with the Israel Chamber Orchestra and the Jerusalem Symphony, and took part in the Upper Galilee chamber music days at Kfar Blum in 1989 and 1993. Alongside music he took a master's degree in cell biology. Ehrlich appeared as a flute soloist at the Thracia Summer Music Festival in Plovdiv in 1999. His recordings include Mozart’s Concerto for Flute and Harp, K. 299, with Desislava Nikolova and the Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra under Nayden Todorov, issued by Music Minus One.