Biography
Born in Israel, 1985, Shelly is a student in the class of Sabine Mayer and Reiner Wehle at the Academy for Music Luebeck, Germany, since 2003 . In addition, she receives chamber-music lessons with Dithelm Jonas. 2006-2007 she studied as an exchange student at the "Guildhall School of Music and Drama" with Joy Farrall. Shelly's first acquainted with Professor Yitzhak Katsap was the reason for her falling in love with the instrument and under his tuition graduated with honors from the Israeli Conservatory for Music Tel-Aviv.
Shelly won the third prize in the ARD International Competition in Munich, the first prize in Braunschweig Classix Festival "Mozart 2006" competition, 2007 a special prize in "Possehl" competition, the "August-Everding" Prize in "Grosser Foerderpreiswettbewerb 2005 der Konzertgesellschaft Munich" international competition, the first prize soloist scholarship from the Israeli conservatory for music Tel-Aviv, the "Marie-Louise-Imbusch" Foundation prize, the "Karin-Schuetz" Scholarship, the "Gotthard-Schierse" Foundation prize, and won the “Deutsche Musikleben Hamburg” scholarship and the America Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarships both as a soloist (with honors) and as a chamber music performer. Shelly was a member of the young musicians unit of the Jerusalem Music Center- "Mishcanot Sha'ananim", nowadays she’s a scholar of the "Villa Musica" Ensemble and “Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now” Foundation.
Shelly played as a soloist with the Bavarian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Camber-Orchestra of Munich, the Classical Philharmonic Bonn, Camerata Moravia Prague, the Israeli Chamber Orchestra, and the Symphony orchestra of the Israeli conservatory for music Tel-Aviv. In addition, she performed at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Classix-Festival Braunschweig, Brahms Festival, and the Cesky Krumlov International Music Festival.
Shelly recorded for the NDR radio station and for the Israeli classical radio station- "The Voice of Music", on many different occasions, and for the Israeli National Television channel.
Shelly takes part in master-classes with Charles Neidich, Karl-Heinz Steffens, Anthony Pay, Sharon Kam, Joerg Widmann, Nicolas Cox, Hakan Rosengren, Norbert Kaiser, Eli Even, Menachem Wisenberg and Hagai Shacham.
