Washington Post: "Bassoonist Gili Sharett played beautiful, poignant solos in "Una Furtiva Lacrima" from Gaetano Donizetti's opera " L'Elisir d'Amore".

Bassoonist Gili Sharett has performed with the Israel Philharmonic, New York City Ballet, American Symphony Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony, and Encores! at City Center. An experienced chamber musician who has performed classical, jazz, and 20th-century works. She is the 2nd bassoonist of the New York Women's Ensemble and Greenwich Symphony. A former member of Ariel Winds and Goliard Concerts, she has appeared with Sylvan Winds, Quintet of the Americas, NY Chamber Soloists, Downtown Music Productions and with such jazz groups as The Rafi Malkiel Ensemble, Dan Aran, and Jason Lindner and Uri Sharlin's DogCat.

Among her Broadway orchestral credits are Beauty and the Beast, 110 in the Shade, South Pacific, West Side Story, A Little Night Music, and Lincoln Center's productions of The Frogs and The Light in the Piazza, for which she also played the Live from Lincoln Center broadcast.

Festival appearances include the Verbier Music Festival (Switzerland), Winter in Jerusalem (Israel), Vermont Mozart Festival and Bard SummerScape (New York).

Honors include an American Israel Cultural Foundation prestigious Award.

She performed a solo recital at Carnegie Hall's Weill recital in 2005.

Sharett earned her BA at the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv Magna Cum Laude, where she took first prize in both the concerto and chamber music competitions. She completed her doctoral studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she performance Frank Martin's Concerto for Seven Winds under the baton of Leon Flisher. Sharett's teachers include Mordechai Rechtman, Kim Laskowski, Arlen Fast, Bernadette Zirkuli, Lenny Hindell and Dennis Godburn.

As an active educator, Sharett has performed for the New York Philharmonic Education series KidZone, as well as Young Audiences, Midori and Friends, and the 92 Street Y. She has taught at Hartwick Music Festival in Oneonta and the Brevard Music Center, and is currently on the faculties of Queens College and the Bloomingdale School of Music.

Sharett has recorded with mixed ensembles on the Nonesuch, Naïve, Tzadik and PS Classics labels.

Ha'aretz, Israel's leading daily, wrote: "…Mostly the parts played by the bassoonist Gili Sharett elevated the concert to the level of what can only be called a "celebration".