Myrna Herzog

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Myrna Herzog
Background information
Born	(1951-12-01) 1 December 1951 (age 69) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Genres	Early Music
Occupation(s)	Musician, conductor, teacher and early music researcher
Instruments	viols, baroque cello, medieval bowed instruments
Years active	1969-present
Website	www.phoenixearlymusic.com/index.php/people/myrna-herzog

Myrna Herzog (born in Rio de Janeiro, 1 December 1951) is a Brazilian born Israeli musician, player of the viol/viola da gamba and baroque cello, conductor, and researcher in the field of viols.

Musician career[]

Brazilian-born, Myrna started her professional career in 1972, when, with only one and a half years of study of viola da gamba, she was one of the winners of the Young Soloists competition of the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra (OSB). Her first professional ensembles of early music were the groups (1970–72) and (1971–74). In 1973, together with Rosana Lanzelotte, she founded , and in 1983, she founded and directed for 9 years Brazil's first Baroque Orchestra, .^[1] In 1992, "The Lady of the viola da gamba" (Jornal do Brasil) immigrated to Israel, where she taught the first generation of sabra viola da gamba players. Dr. Herzog studied viol with Judith Davidoff and Wieland Kuijken. Since 1998, she has been the musical director and conductor of the of early instruments.^[2]

Herzog has also worked in opera, transcribing, editing, casting, directing, and fully staging the 13th-century Play of Daniel and the Baroque opera La púrpura de la rosa.

As a viola da gamba soloist, Myrna has performed in 24 countries, throughout Europe, South America, the US, and Israel. She has participated in the Israeli premiere of the Passions (Bach) with the Israel Philharmonic, performing the viola da gamba solos. Myrna Herzog has recorded for many labels as a conductor and as a performer on the viol, quinton, vielle, baroque cello, and modern cello. She has a doctorate degree in music from Bar-Ilan University and teaches at the Israel Conservatory of Music (Tel Aviv). She has recently taught workshops for conductors on baroque music in Brazil and at the Royal Academy of Music and Dance, London.

Publications[]

Dr Herzog's articles have appeared in important journals and books; she is a contributor to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

Articles[]

• Stradivari's Viols, The Galpin Society Journal, Vol. 57 (May, 2004), pp. 183–194, 216
• “The Viol in Bach’s Passion’s: A Performer’s notes”. Journal of the Viola da Gamba Society of America 33, 1996:30-46.
• "Finding out the True Identity of the Castagneri Viol: a Detective Story". Journal of the Viola da Gamba Society of America 31, 1994: 25-43.
• Preface and Revision to Nicolas Harnoncourt's Musica, o Discurso dos Sons, the Brazilian translation of Musik als klangrede wege zu eigem neuen musikverstandnis, Rio de Janeiro: Zahar, 1988.
• "Por que instrumentos de época?" (Why period instruments?)", by request of Polygram Records, 1987, brochure attached to all records of the Florilegium Series; also printed in Christopher Hogwood's Academy of Ancient Music concert programs in Brazil and Argentina.

Studio de Musica Antiga II and III, Rio: Editora Universitaria Santa Ursula, 1987-88[]

Diálogo Médico Roche Magazine, three series (Music from Renaissance to Impressionism, History of Musical Instruments, Music in Colonial Brazil), 1986, 1988[]

Aonde Vamos (Where Are We Going)? weekly magazine, Rio de Janeiro, 1973-75[]

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