Alon Sariel was born on 11 May 1986 in Beersheba, Israel. He began playing the mandolin at age eight, studying with Dora Bartik at the Beersheba Conservatory. In 2004 he entered Motti Shmitt’s mandolin and violin class at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. From 2007 to 2012 he toured with Daniel Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Between 2010 and 2015 he studied lute with Hans-Michael Koch at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover. In 2015 he founded the ensemble Concerto Foscari and co-founded the quartet PRISMA.

As a mandolin soloist he has performed with most of the Israeli orchestras, often also conducting them. The Orchestra of the City commissioned for him the Sinfonia Concertante for mandolin and strings “Nedudim” by Gilad Hochman (2014), which he recorded with the Kammerorchester Berlin for the label Neue Meister in 2016. As a continuo player he has collaborated with ensembles including Elbipolis Barockorchester Hamburg, KlangForum Heidelberg and Holland Baroque.

Sources:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alon_Sariel
• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57240257