...Lipkind is a total one-off... he plays as if possessed... This was edge-of-the-seat, white knuckle playing... The Independent (five stars review *****)

Having graduated from three major academies on three continents and having won more than twelve top prizes in major competitions, Lipkind found himself at the pinnacle of his youthful achievements. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote of him: A new star ascends the cello sky...The young Israeli cellist is one of the major musicians to have entered the music scene in recent years...

In spite of his early fulminant success as a musician, at age 23 Lipkind decided to take a sabbatical to focus wholly on the innermost depths of his musicianship - to work reflectively on his repertoire, liaise with composers and make recordings of the highest quality. At this pivotal point in his development Lipkind produced two contrasting recordings: Miniatures and Folklore, featuring his own arrangements and Single Voice Polyphony" (Volume I), showcasing Bach Cello Suites. These productions represent very different, yet equally important facets of Lipkind's musical creativity - his own compositional voice, coupled with a deep knowledge of the cello - and both show him moving from strength to strength as a conceptual musician and a true expressive virtuoso.

In addition to the major works for cello, Lipkind's repertoire also encompasses numerous rarities, newly commissioned works and his own arrangements and transcriptions. Lipkind plays an Antonio Garani cello (Bologna, 1702) sponsored by the Commerzbank.