Amihai Grosz was born in 1979 in Jerusalem, Israel. He initially learned to play the violin at the age of 5, before switching to the viola at age 11. In Jerusalem, he was taught by David Chen, later by Tabea Zimmermann in Frankfurt and Berlin as well as in Jerusalem by Haim Taub, who had a formative influence on him.
Between 1993 and 1999, Amihai Grosz received scholarships through the American-Israeli Cultural Foundation, and he was a member of the “Young Musicians Group” of the Jerusalem Music Center, a program for outstanding young musical talents.
Grosz was a founding member of the Jerusalem Quartet in 1996, and played with them until 2009.
In 1996 Grosz won first prize at the Brown-Roger Siegel Competition and 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.
Grosz has played with Daniel Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. Grosz has also collaborated, in solo and in chamber music projects, with artists such as Yefim Bronfman, Emmanuel Pahud, Mitsuko Uchida, Oleg Maisenberg, Janine Jansen, andJulian Rachlin.
Here is Mr. Grosz performing the Viola Sonata #1 by Johannes Brahms:
