Meet the Faculty
Eli Kalman
(920) 424-4220
kalmane@uwosh.edu
ELI KALMAN has performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician
in Romania, Israel, Germany, Hungary, United States and Canada. Hailing
from Israel, he was the recipient of the Paul Collins Wisconsin Distinguished
Graduate Fellowship for Excellence at UW-Madison. He was an enthusiastic
artist in-residence at the Chamber Music Festival at Banff, Canada where
he has performed for three consecutive years in the Art of the Ensemble
concert series. Dr. Kalman performed at the Token Creek Festival, the Emmanuel
Music-Schumann Chamber Series in Boston, the Connoisseur Series at Wichita
State University and as a part of the acclaimed Myra Hess Memorial concerts
in Chicago, with cellist Amit Peled. He also performed repeatedly on the
Faculty Concert Series at UW-Madison with inspiring cellist Parry Karp.
His main research interests include neglected repertoire for strings and
piano and the compositions of Romanian pianist Dinu Lipatti and Israeli
composer Erwin Junger. In 2001, he recorded on CD the works for solo piano
and cello and piano by Erwin Junger and in 2006 Robert Schumann’s
Sonatas for Violin and Piano with violinist Rose Mary Harbison. Other recordings
of his recitals have been heard on Jerusalem Radio and for the most part
on Wisconsin National Public Radio. In 2005, Dr. Kalman joined the piano
faculty at the Young Artist Seminars at Rocky Ridge Music Center, CO. and
he is also on the piano faculty at the association “Maestro“,
which is a non-profit organization in Israel that provides a home base for
accomplished Israeli musicians living abroad. He currently serves as Professor
of Piano on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh where
he collaborates intensely with his colleagues in various faculty recitals
and concert series such as “Infusion” and “Searl Pickett
Classical Concert Series” at Windhover.
Dr. Kalman earned the Diploma in Piano Performance at the Academy of Music
“G. Dima” in Cluj, Romania, the Master of Music and Doctor of
Musical Arts degrees at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.