Gil Agababa-Shaked

Gil Agababa Shaked is principal clarinetist of Jyväskylä Sinfonia since 2016. Previously she played at Kiel Philharmonic and Klassische Philharmonie Bonn, Germany.

Gil received her education at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, Germany and the Sibelius Academy in Finland. During her studies she received several scholarships and awards, for example from the Lions Club and the America-Israel cultural foundation. Gil was apprentice at the National Opera in Helsinki and in the Finnish Radio Orchestra, where she remains a frequent substitute among other Finnish orchestras.

Besides orchestral activities, Gil Agababa Shaked is an active chamber musician. She and her colleagues of the “Helsinki-Trio” are recipients of a recording grant from the German cultural ministry in 2022-23, which is in process. Since 12 years Gil has been organizing and teaching the annual clarinet Masterclasses at the “Kultursommer Arnsberg”, Germany.