Biography

Described as “a chamber musician par excellence” (Frankfurter Rundschau) Jonathan Aner is a member of the Oberon Trio and plays regularly with clarinettist Shirley Brill. He has collaborated with such leading artists as tenors Ian Bostridge and Christoph Prégardien, violinists Guy Braunstein and Daishin Kashimoto, violists Tabea Zimmermann and Brett Dean, cellist Jakob Spahn and with the Vogler and the Ariel String Quartets. The winner of the Opus Klassik Award 2024, he has also won prizes at the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition in Australia, the Città di Trapani and the Vittorio Gui International Chamber Music Competitions in Italy, the Joseph Joachim and the “Erst-Klassik” Competitions in Germany, and the European Chamber Music Competition in France.   Mr. Aner performed recitals and chamber music concerts in such prestigious concert halls as the Berliner Philharmonie, Carnegie Hall, Tonhalle Zürich, Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., as well as in Asia, Australia and in Israel. He has taken part in the Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Rheingau, Heidelberg and Radio France Festivals.   Since 2010 Jonathan Aner has been a professor of chamber music at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin, where he is also the artistic director of the Centre for Chamber Music.