Amihai Grosz

Amihai Grosz (Hebrew: עמיחי גרוס; born in 1979 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli violist. From 1995 to 2009, he was the violist with the Jerusalem Quartet. Since 2010, Grosz has been the Principal Violist of the Berlin Philharmonic.

Grosz began to play the violin at age 5 taking private lessons with Marc Benador before switching to the viola at age 11. His viola teachers were David Chen in Jerusalem, Tabea Zimmermann in Frankfurt and Berlin, and, in Tel Aviv, Haim Taub, who had a formative influence on him.

In 1995, Grosz was a founding member of the Jerusalem Quartet,
playing with them until 2009.
During his time with the Quartet, they signed a recording contract with Harmonia Mundi.
In 2009, they won the ECHO Klassik Chamber Music Award for Schubert's String Quartet No. 14 "Death and the Maiden".
Their recording of two Haydn string quartets
received a Diapason d'Or de l'Année 2009
and won the 2010 BBC Music Magazine Chamber Award.
In 1996, Grosz won first prize at the Brown-Roger Siegel Competition. In 2007, he received the Gottesman Prize for viola at the Aviv Competition.
In 2004, Grosz performed the world premiere of Omer Meir Wellber’s Viola Concerto.
In 2012, he played Luciano Berio’s "Sequenza VI" for viola solo at the Philharmonie Berlin.
In 2013, Grosz was soloist in Hector Berlioz's Harold en Italie conducted by Emanuel Krivine as part of the Berlioz Festival in France.