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The Israeli music director, viola da gamba and the violone player, Amit Tiefenbrunn, began his double-bass studies in Israel with Eli Magen, and continued his musical education at the Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU), where he studied the viola da gamba with A. Pols. He also studied the violone, and specialized in chamber music with M. Urquhart at the Royal Conservatorium of music in Hague.
Amit Tiefenbrunn is Music Director of Barrocada - Israeli Baroque Collective, plays the viola da gamba and the violone, and builds musical instruments. He has also pursued a solo career. In the past, he was a member of the Aeole Trio of Berlin, with which he recorded two CD’s. While he was studying music, he specialized in the art of building period instruments under D. J. Hamoen. Since then he has been building viols, violins, harps and other string instruments for Barrocada and for many other players in Israel and worldwide.
In addition to his work as Barrocada's Music Director, Amit Tiefenbrunn also plays with various other ensembles, and has recorded several CD’s with them. He participates regularly in leading classic and Baroque music festivals, and in a variety of radio and television programs in Israel and around the world. He teaches viola da gamba at the Rubin Music Academy in Jerusalem.
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