Hila Karni was born in Tel Aviv. Her teachers include David Geringas and Bernard Greenhouse, who has described her as “one of the most musically sensitive and technically exciting cellists of the younger generation.” She studied chamber music with Haim Taub and Alban Berg quartet. As co-founder of Trio Mondrian she won 1st Prize, the “Young Award” and best interpretation of a Brahms trio at the International Chamber Music Competition in Trieste in 2007. At the Bologna Festival in 2008, it received the Audience Prize. In 2009, it was awarded the Borletti-Buitoni Fellowship (London). The Italian composer Marcello Abbado dedicated a piece titled “Trio Mondrian” to the ensemble. As a guest at numerous festivals, among them Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Schleswig-Holstein, Stresa, Kfar Blum and Ravinia and appeared at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Megaron Concert Hall in Athens, the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden, the Palais de Beaux Arts in Brussels, the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Cologne Philharmonie, Wigmore Hall in London and Carnegie Hall in New York, she has gained international acclaim. Among her many musical partners are Maxim Vengerov, Nigel Kennedy, Boris Pergamentschikow, Guy Braunstein, Ralf Gothoni, Bernard Greenhouse, and the Scharoun Ensemble. Hila’s recordings of the Cello Concerto op. 33 by Robert Volkmann with the Hamburg Camerata, and of Max Richter’s “War Anthem” with the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg received enthusiastic reviews.