Ron Silberstein     tenor

Born in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, Ron graduated with excellence in music from the Yigal Alon High-School of the Arts as a jazz trombone player. He quickly established himself as a professional trombone player, playing with many local and international jazz and pop musicians in some of Israel's biggest venues.

Ron studied classical singing at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and proceeded to a M.Mus program in collaboration with the Israeli Opera's "Meiter Opera Studio". Ron has performed with the Israeli Opera and in opera festivals like the Maifestpiele in Wiesbaden, as well as with numerous orchestras including the Berliner Symphoniker, the Beethoven Academy Orchestra, the Israeli Philharmonic, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Israeli Chamber Orchestra, the Haifa Symphony Orchestra and others.

The operatic roles he performed include Rodolfo in "La bohème" (Puccini), Tamino in "Die Zauberflöte", Idamante in "Idomeneo", Conte Belfiore in "La finta giardiniera", Belmonte in "Die Entführung aus dem Serail'' (Mozart), the title role in "Dido and Aeneas" (Purcell), Oronte in "Alcina" (Händel), Beppe in "Pagliacci" (Leoncavallo), and others. His chamber and oratorio repertoire includes "The Messiah", the title role in "Judas Maccabaeus" (Händel), Magnificat in D Major (Bach), "Petite messe solennelle" (Rossini), "Die schöne Müllerin" (Schubert), "Dichterliebe" (Schumann), and many others.

Recently Ron has participated in the debut recording of Antal Doráti's "Der Künder", conducted by Prof. Martin Fischer-Dieskau for Naxos Records, along with Tomasz Konicenzny, Rachel Frenkel and KS Michael Schade.