Dr. Avner Finberg

Dr. Avner Finberg is an Israeli-American violinist and composer. He teaches traditional and Suzuki violin and viola, composition and music theory. He studied violin Jerusalem Academy for Music and Dance with Hagai Shaham and Roi Shiloach (B. Mus). He then completed his musical education in New York City at The Mannes Conservatory (M.Mus) and Manhattan School of Music , where he earned his doctorate (DMA) in 2015. He has been teaching violin and viola for over a decade, and many of his students have made their way from beginners to advanced books through the Suzuki repertoire. His students advanced to All-State Orchestras in NY and MD. He completed Suzuki teacher training in books 1 through 7.

As an orchestra musician he performed with the Israel Philharmonic, Fairfax Symphony, Annapolis Symphony, the Annapolis Symphony, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Orchestra (Germany), The Binghamton Philharmonic, The Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes (for whom he also composed The Miracle of Hanukkah for choir and orchestra), and The Tel-Aviv Soloists Ensemble.

He performed as a soloist at The Jerusalem Music Center (Jerusalem, Israel), Cornell University, ORF Radio Tirol (in Innsbruck, Austria), Spectrum NYC, and Stravinsky’s A Soldier’s Tale at The Rockwell Museum. After joining the Ithaca New Music Collective in 2017 as a composer and a violinist, Avner started composing and performing music for violin and electronics. His newest original composition in the genre, The Four Seasons of Isolation, will soon be released as an album with the Parma label in the Fall of 2022