At the age of 7, Nitzan received his first cello lessons from Schmuel Magen at the Rubin Academy in Jerusalem.
Nitzan Laster
Cello
Magen encouraged him at an early age to study Bach's six solo suites: “the bible of the cello repertoire. In 1990, he won the Rubin Acadamy Competition for Solo and, a year later, the Rubin Academy Competition of Modern Music. In 1992, he again won prizes at the American-Israeli Keren Sharet Foundation. In 1995, Nitzan became soloist of the celebrated Israeli contemporary music ensemble Kaprizma with which he toured Israel and Europe.
Later, Nitzan moved to France and studied with Michael Strauss at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Paris. There he also performed with the Ensemble Intercontemporain. During his studies, he took master classes with Janos Starker and Aldo Parisot.
In 2007, Nitzan received a position with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra. He has performed with the Sharon String Quartet and the Old West String Quartet at the Festival of Arts in New York, Spring Festival in St. Petersburg, Cezar Franck Festival in Belgium and in the Israel Festival.
Nitzan teaches master classes and summer courses in Israel, France, the United States and England.