Yariv Aloni

Yariv Aloni is Artistic Director and Conductor of The Victoria Chamber Orchestra, The Galiano Ensemble of Victoria, The Comox Valley Youth Music Centre, and The Great Victoria Youth Orchestra. He is Professor of Conducting and Viola at the University of Victoria, BC.

Born on A kibbutz in Israel, Yariv Aloni began studying the violin at the age of eight and turned to the viola when he was sixteen. He studied viola with David Chen at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem, Daniel Benyamini, principal violist of the Israel Philharmonic, and Michael Tree and the Guarneri String Quartet. He graduated from the Jerusalem Music Center where he took master classes with Isaac Stern, Joseph Gingold, and other internationally recognized musicians.

In 1985 Mr. Aloni was invited by Issac Stern to perform with him and Pinchas Zukerman at Carnegie Hall. He has performed as recitalist and chamber musician in major concert halls around the world, including Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Centre in New York, Tonhalle in Zurich, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, the Louvré in Paris and the Music Theatre in Jerusalem.

Yariv Aloni studied conducting with the Hungarian conductor János Sándor, former music director of the Budapest State Opera, the Györ Philharmonic Orchestra and Opera Pecs. He most recently worked with the conductor Gustav Meier and conducted in the Oregon Bach Festival where he also worked with Helmuth Rilling.

Yariv Aloni has received praise for conducting “impassioned, inspiring” and “magnificently right” interpretations of major orchestral and choral repertoire. Reviewers also describe him as “a musician of considerable insight and impeccable taste.” Mr. Aloni has recorded for the CBC, the BBC, National Public Radio, Radio-France and the Israeli Radio, and also can be heard on Compact Discs issued by the United, Marquise, Tritonus, and CBC labels.