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Amir Gwirtzman (born in 1965 in Tel Aviv) is a musician, multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer. The New York Jewish Week of The Times of Israel described him as one of Israel's leading jazz musicians and "a kind of cultural ambassador for the Jewish state". He is also one of the few musicians in the world who mastered more than 20 woodwind instruments from various cultures and places: Saxophones, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Flute, Bagpipes, Zornas, Duduk, Arghul, Quena, Piri, Shofar, and Indian, Irish, Vietnamese, Arabic, and Chinese flutes, and many others. In honor of 60 years of diplomatic relations between the Kingdom of Thailand and the state of Israel, the Thailand post issued a special edition of postal stamps with Amir Gwirtzman as a notable Israeli musician. Gwirtzman has been

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  • Amir Gwirtzman (born in 1965 in Tel Aviv) is a musician, multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer. The New York Jewish Week of The Times of Israel described him as one of Israel's leading jazz musicians and "a kind of cultural ambassador for the Jewish state". He is also one of the few musicians in the world who mastered more than 20 woodwind instruments from various cultures and places: Saxophones, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Flute, Bagpipes, Zornas, Duduk, Arghul, Quena, Piri, Shofar, and Indian, Irish, Vietnamese, Arabic, and Chinese flutes, and many others. In honor of 60 years of diplomatic relations between the Kingdom of Thailand and the state of Israel, the Thailand post issued a special edition of postal stamps with Amir Gwirtzman as a notable Israeli musician. Gwirtzman has been described by Chicago Tribune's Jazz critic Howard Reich as a "charming anomaly in Jazz" whose music makes "epochs speaking to one another as he switches between one instrument and the other". (en)
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  • Tel Aviv, Israel (en)
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  • Gwirtzman performing in Manila, Philippines, 2018 (en)
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  • Saxophones, clarinets, flutes, indigenous woodwinds including bagpipes, duduk, zurna, and shofar (en)
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  • Amir Gwirtzman (born in 1965 in Tel Aviv) is a musician, multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer. The New York Jewish Week of The Times of Israel described him as one of Israel's leading jazz musicians and "a kind of cultural ambassador for the Jewish state". He is also one of the few musicians in the world who mastered more than 20 woodwind instruments from various cultures and places: Saxophones, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Flute, Bagpipes, Zornas, Duduk, Arghul, Quena, Piri, Shofar, and Indian, Irish, Vietnamese, Arabic, and Chinese flutes, and many others. In honor of 60 years of diplomatic relations between the Kingdom of Thailand and the state of Israel, the Thailand post issued a special edition of postal stamps with Amir Gwirtzman as a notable Israeli musician. Gwirtzman has been (en)
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