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The young Israeli cellist Timora Rosler took first prize at the 1996 "Stuttgart International Cello Competition". In 1997 she won the "Vriendenkrans of the Royal Concertgebouw" in Amsterdam. She was praised by the jury as follows: "Timora Rosler has a capturing talent, intimate expressiveness, virtuosity and a natural feeling for the composition Her interpretation is exceptionally fascinating".
A year later she won a special prize for her interpretation at the "XI International Bach Competition" in Leipzig.

Timora participated in numerous music festivals including Ravinia, Aspen, Banff Center for the Arts, the Manchester Cello Festival, the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove (England), Holland Music Sessions, Pro Festival in Rolandseck (Germany) and the Maurice Ravel Summer Academy in France.

Timora has appeared in concerts in Europe, the United States, Canada, Argentina and Israel. As a soloist she has performed with different orchestras such as the Flemish Radio Orchestra (Martyn Brabbins), Philharmonia of the Nations (Justus Frants), Janacek Philharmonic, Slovak Sinfonietta, Donetsk Philharmonic, National Symphony of Ukraine, Orquesta de Camara Mayo, Haifa Symphony Orchestra, Israel Sinfonietta Beer Sheva and the Eastern Connecticut Symphony.
With the Orquesta de Camara Mayo of Buenos Aires she toured extensively throughout the Netherlands (including the Amsterdam Concertgebouw) and Argentina, with works of Piazzolla. Both a television and a CD recording were made of this collaboration. She has also made recordings for the Israeli, Hungarian, German, Dutch and American Radio.
Timora holds a Performing Musician degree from the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam, where she studied with Dmitri Ferschtman, and a Certificate of Performance from Yale University where she was a pupil of Aldo Parisot.

Recently she was appointed as a cello teacher at the Utrecht Conservatory of Music.

Timora plays on a Thomas Dodd cello from 1800.

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