Arthur Rubinstein

It is no secret that we in Israel have much to offer the world on the classical music front, as we continue to churn out talented musicians in…

The annual Women’s Festival in Holon will celebrate two landmarks between March 9 and March 12. The festival marks the centenary of International…

Next week, British pianist Ian Fountain returns to Israel to perform Mozart’s Piano concertos No. 25 and 14 with the Israeli Chamber…

The whole world is celebrating Chopin’s 200 anniversary, and next week two pianists – Eric Artz of France and Krzysztof Jablonski of Poland – will…

The Supreme Court on Tuesday criticized the Tel Aviv Municipality for charging the Movement for Quality Government (MQG) NIS 19,000 for the use of…

‘I love chamber music and I never miss an opportunity to play it,” says 30-year-old Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival participant,…

PARIS – Jewish names have often been considered burdensome by their bearers. Not only are they difficult to spell and hard to pronounce, they’ve…

To paraphrase Sir Thomas Morley, “Now is the month of Maying when the Festival is aplaying! Fa la la la la!” It’s the Israel Festival, of course,…

On a rainy January day, horns honk, brakes squeal and buses belch alongSderot Rothschild in Tel Aviv. Water pours through the tattered awnings ofthe…

Helga Dudman used to attribute her long life to smoking three packs a day and never visiting a doctor. The journalist and prolific author, who died…

On Wednesday night, the Israel Chamber Orchestra (ICO) opens its new season with a program that features Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto, performed…

The first thing that strikes one about Sir Arthur George Weidenfeld is the intensity of his gaze, a piercing eagle-eyed stare that reveals the…

Tel Aviv, so wrote its unofficial poet laureate Natan Alterman, was born a metropolis. From its inception it became a cultural center. In 1920, when…

The founder of the Arthur Rubinstein Piano Master Competition and its director for many years Jasha (Jan Jacob) Bistritsky passed away on Thursday…

As the city with the highest rate of poverty in the country, particularly among its elderly residents, the recent opening of a luxury retirement home…

'I perceive Israel as my country," says pianist Alexander Korsantia, who will perform Chopin's Second Concerto together with the Jerusalem Symphony…

On not seeing starsSir, - I can't agree with your description of the decision by the Arthur Rubinstein piano competition judges as "bizarre"…

There is something biblically magnificent about the red mountains that tower over Eilat, reminiscent of Mount Sinai, not so far away. But the…

It often seems that no sooner does a musical fashion strike a chord than it fades out. There is greater musical variety than ever, and the ways of…

It's purely coincidental that the gala concert that will herald the opening of the 12th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition is…