JONATHAN
LEIBOVITZ
"It's evident that Jonathan Leibovitz is an extraordinarily gifted clarinettist. He has that singular ability to mesmerise the listener in everything he does, moulding every phrase with imagination, infallible control and above all with a commanding personality."
BBC Music Magazine
Israeli clarinetist Jonathan Leibovitz, based in Basel, performs across Europe and beyond as a soloist and chamber musician.
His debut album Eastern Reflections (Delphian Records, 2024), recorded with violinist Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux and pianist Joseph Havlat, features works by Bartók, Ligeti, and Weinberg. He has performed at festivals including Verbier, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and Marlboro Music Festival, and has worked with conductors including Elena Schwarz, Adrien Perruchon, and Tung-Chieh Chuang.
In recent seasons, he has appeared as soloist with orchestras including the Lucerne Symphony, Munich Symphony, Basel Symphony, and Israel Philharmonic.
Highlights of the 2025/26 season include performances at Wigmore Hall, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Beethovenfest Bonn, and Marlboro Music Festival.
A Borletti-Buitoni Fellow and laureate of the YCAT and Concert Artists Guild Auditions, Jonathan has won first prizes at the Crusell and Aviv competitions, and a special prize at the Carl Nielsen Competition. He studied with Yevgeny Yehudin at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel Aviv and with François Benda and Claudio Martinez Mehner at the Music Academy in Basel.
BIO
GO LISTEN
Eastern Reflections: Bartók | Lutosławski | Weinberg | Ligeti
Is now out in all platforms!
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CONTACT
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Tim Mar, COO & Director of Artist Strategy
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"Mr Leibovitz exhibited his more thoughtful, mellow and almost introspective style of playing in the Brahms Sonata no 2, opus 120, a work perfectly suited at times to this sort of mood".
West Wight Arts Association