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Bridging the keys

Twelve classical pianists from Israel and China, aged eight to 21, find a common language in music.

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It is generally quite difficult to find much common ground between a country of over 1.3 billion people and another of around just 8 million, but last week a bunch of youngsters from China and Israel met for five days of intensive musical synergy. The event was supported by the Guilford and Diane Glazer Foundation, and was initiated and facilitated by Barry Swersky.

The Bridge of Keys program brought together a dozen highly gifted classical pianists from the two countries, aged between eight and 21, under the aegis of the Jerusalem Music Center. The young artists attended master classes by some of the classical musical world’s most feted figures, including the center’s president, conductor and pianist Murray Perahia, celebrated Israeli pianist and conductor Arie Vardi, American pianist Stephen Kovacevich and Dan Zhaoyi, one of China’s foremost classical music educators.

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