Piano

Jerusalem highlights: February 13-19

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

MAO concert (see Thursday)
Pianist Ido Shalom takes his seat at the keyboard

Pianist Ido Shalom on music, meaning, and playing beyond the concert hall

Ronen Shapira adapts his Cultural Piano to numerous genres and styles.

Boundless Bach at the 12th rollout of the Jerusalem Piano Festival

PIANO MASTERMINDS Sivan Silver and Gil Garburg.

The orchestral roar of 32 hands on 704 keys


World-Renowned Israeli Piano Prodigy Yoav Levanon Performs in Boston

The 18-year-old dynamic Israeli pianist’s two-week U.S. tour brought him to Kehillath Israel in Brookline, in collaboration with the Consulate General of Israel to New England.


Guangdong Technion celebrates Israeli-Sino friendship with piano concert


Fight the blues with some tunes - study

The researchers found that within just a few weeks of starting lessons, subjects' ability to process multisensory information – sight and sound – was enhanced.

Tuomas Lauri Johannes Holopainen, Nightwish concert at The Palais, Melbourne, January 2008.

This year's Piano Festival has much more than piano to offer

This year’s four-dayer will focus primarily on works from the late Romantic period, taking in charts from the likes of Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Dvorak and Grieg.

 ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Michael Wolpe continues to steer the Pianos Festival into rich unchartered waters.

Veteran pianist Garrick Ohlsson keeps his musical options open

A rewarding, pleasurable and heartwarming listening experience, with a consummate open-minded professional, is clearly in store for the Tel Aviv and Jerusalem audiences.

AMERICAN CLASSICAL pianist Garrick Ohlsson

Tel Hai Master Classes return to the tranquility of Israel's Sde Boker

The latest program of one-on-one instruction, masterclasses and concerts kicks off on Sunday, July 31, and will continue for almost three weeks through to August 18.

 A PARTICIPANT IN the Tel Hai International Piano Master Classes.

Why do pianos and guitars sound different?

Even when playing the same exact notes, each musical instrument sounds differently due to a variety of conditions.

 A guitar lies across a piano.

Completely Mozart: The Pianos Festival tickles Jerusalem’s ivories

The program features three original works inspired by Mozart, specially written for the Jerusalem East-West Orchestra by Wolpe, Nizar Elkhater and jazz-leaning Guy Mintus.

 THE ISRAEL Chamber Orchestra, with conductor Ziv Cojocaru, team up with soloists Malachi Rosenbaum and Oxana Jablonska

Piano Festival returns to life

After an exclusively televised roll out last year, the 23rd edition of the annual music event, one of the main features of the cultural calendar in Tel Aviv, is due to take place October 27-30.

 SHALOM HANOCH

Some classical compositions have yet to be performed in Israel - analysis

A possible reason for them having been unjustifiably forgotten is presumably that their composers stood under the formidable shadow of Bach and Handel.

THE ALMA trio, with bass and drum support, gets to grips with the music.