The Musicians

Natasha Sher moved to Israel from Moscow in 1990, and since then appeared as soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Israel Camerata Jerusalem, Israel Chamber Orchestra and others, as well as with various chamber ensembles throughout the country and abroad, including London, Paris, Frankfurt, Milan and Japan.

Natasha graduated from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, studying with Prof. Maya Glizarova and Prof. Yuri Gandelsman. She is a founding member of “Erato” String Trio.

Today Natasha serves as the orchestra's Principal Violinst.

Polina Groshikova was born in St. Petersburg in 1997 and began playing the violin at the

age of 7 in class of Varvara Ovchinnikova. She recorded her first CD as a soloist with

Vasiliev Ostrov Chamber Orchetsra at the age of fourteen.

In 2015 she continued her studies with Prof. Alf Richard Kraggerud and Prof. Henning

Kraggerud at the Barratt Due Music Institute in Oslo, Norway. During this time Polina was a

substitute member of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Norwegian Chamber

Orchestra.

After moving to Israel in 2018 Polina joined the class of Prof. Dora Schwarzberg at the

Buchman-Mehta School of Music in Tel Aviv where she completed her Bachelor and Artist

Diploma degrees.

While her studies in Israel she was fortunate to lead the Buchmann-Mehta symphony

orchestra under the baton of Zubin Mehta and Lahav Shani. Polina was a member of the

“Gertler" quartet and won the chamber music competition at the BMSM. Polina is a

substitute member of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra

and others. During the season of 2021-2022 Polina served as the Assistant Concertmaster

of the Israel Chamber Orchestra and joined the Israel Camerata Jerusalem in October 2022.

Galina Korinets was born in Ukraine in 1994. in age 6 years old Galina  start playing ,First teacher was her mother Olga Korinets and later on she continued her studies with Olga Rivnyak in Kyiv special music school and already in 2002 Galina  participed in first competition the international contest "The quest for talents", Slovakia and than were many more IX international competition Michael Stracharzh,V international competition "Silver Bell", Classic Meridian Competition,and many more later.

In 2012 she continued her studies with Taras Yaropud at Petro Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine.

Since 2014 worked in orchestra Kyiv Soloist Chamber Orchestra first violin, and later Kyiv Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra first Violin 2015-2017.
Galina performed as a soloist with National Philharmonic orchestra of Ukraine and also Lviv Philharmonic orchestra.
In 2017 moved to Israel she continued her studies at Buchmann-Mehta school of music with Janna Gandelman,
Galina  recived full schoolarship while her studies . She also joined many times Jerusalem Symphony orchestra as a substitute and Israel Philarmonic orchestra as a substitute.
After she finished her studies in 2019 Galina got a permanent position in Israel Camerata Jerusalem orchestra . Also Galina is often participating in different music Festivals in Europe and USA .
Galina  took masterclasses with many violin players and teachers like Renaud Capucon , Leonidas Kavakos,Matis Vaitsner, Christian Altenburger ,Dora Schwarzberg, Deborah Nemtanu, Oleh Krysa, Christian Tetzlaff and others .

Omri Tzach was born in Georgia in 1957. At the age of 7 he began his violin studies under Prof. Eliashvilli. After his studies, Omri served as Principal violinist at the Georgian National Symphony Orchestra. For one season he studied under Prof. Mark Lubotsky at the Hamburg Academy and worked at the Academia Hamburg Chamber Orchestra.In 1992 he immigrated to Israel and began working at the Camerata. At the same time, he played chamber music in various trio and quartet ensembles and as a sub at the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

Smadar grew up in Berlin, Germany, where she also started playing the violin. Studying music and violin brought her to the State University of Music Stuttgart, the Guildhall School of Music London and the University of Music Frankfurt. For her musical developement she gained support of various scholarships and foundations like Yehudi Menuhin „Live Music Now“ Stuttgart and the Baden-Württemberg Stipendium. Smadar did her internship in the Frankfurter Opern- and Museumsorchester and afterwards completed her studies with the insights into the “baroque violin”. She took part in concerts, tours and festivals throughout Europe with the Freiburger Barockorchester and the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble. Since 2015 Smadar lives in Israel where she continues to play with baroque ensembles like the Israeli Baroque Collective Barrocade, the french ensemble Pygmalion at the festival Aix-en-Provence and others. In 2019 Smadar joined the 2nd violin section of the Jerusalem Camerata. Trio Obligato she founded in 2018 and its purpose is to connect different music styles in its performances.

Boris Rimmer was born in 1977 in Kazakhstan. He began studying violin at the age of 7 at the State's Higher School of Music. After graduating he moved to Israel, and continued his violin and viola studies at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music. He performed in the Israel Young Philharmonic Orchestra and participated in numerous chamber music projects. In 2005-2006 he led the viola section of the Raanana Symphonette Orchestra and in 2006-2009 with the Israel Chamber Orchestra. As of 2009, Rimmer is a member of the Israel Camerata Jerusalem.

Marina Katz was born in Riga, Latvia. She began her cello studies at the age of 6 at the "Emils Darzins" special music school, under the guidance of Prof. Eleonora Testeletz. As a young cellist Marina participated in many international festivals and competitions. In Israel Marina had completed her Bachelor's degree at the Tel Aviv Israeli Academy of Music and continued her Masters' degree at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance under Prof. Emanuel Gruber. Marina appeared as a soloist with many orchestras. She is currently Principal Cellist of the Israel Camerata Jerusalem.