Roman Spitzer

ROMAN SPITZER (Viola) an allround musician, enjoys an extensive career both as violist and conductor. A native of St. Petersburg Roman has studied violin at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory of Music with Professor V. Mazel. After emigrating to Israel in 1990 he continued his studies as a violist at the Tel Aviv Academy of Music joining the class of Professor G. Lewertoff and was soon invited to become a Principal Violist of the Tel Aviv Symphony Orchestra, playing at the same time in the New Tel Aviv String Quartet. In the year of 2000 Roman Spitzer, being at the moment the youngest member of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Zubin Mehta, wins a position of principal violist and holds it till his move to The Netherlands, where, in 2016, he wins a principal violist position at the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Roman has been invited to lead the viola section of numerous orchestras including London Philharmonic, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic and many others. He has been collaborating with a renowned conductors, including Zubin Mehta, Lorin Maazel, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Kurt Masur, Riccardo Muti, Yuri Temirkanov, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Barenboim, Rostropovich, etc. Roman’s solo performances received the highest critic’s reviews. As a chamber musician, he has been performing and recording with a number of prominent artists, to name a few: Natalia Gutman, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Leonidas Kavakos, Maxim Vengerov, Vadim Repin, Julian Rachlin, etc., with an invitation to international chamber music festivals.