Alexander Nemirovsky

Alexander Nemirovsky joined the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in 2011 as Assistant Principal Timpani and Percussionist, becoming Acting Principal Percussion in 2015. In 2017, he was designated a Zildjian Orchestral Artist. Alexander was born in Moldova. He attended the Hebrew University…

Elliot Beck

Elliot Beck is Assistant Principal Timpanist of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. He can be heard playing with the Orchestra across Israel and around the world. Before moving to Tel Aviv, he held percussion and timpani positions with the Grand Rapids…

Ziv Stein

Percussionist Ziv Stein performs worldwide with various orchestras such as the West-Eastern Divan, the Verbier Festival, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Israeli Opera. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the Juilliard School, where he studied with Daniel Druckman and…

Dan Moshayev

Dan Moshayev is Principal Timpanist of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, a position he has held since 2004 when he was eighteen years old. Dan began studying percussion with his father, Joseph Moshayev, but after Dan and his family immigrated to…

Ayal Rafiah

Ayal Rafiah, percussionist, was born in Israel to a musical family; his mother taught piano and Ayal describes his father as having a “high musical IQ.” He began piano studies at the age of eight and started playing percussion four…

Zubin Mehta

Born in Bombay, India, Maestro Zubin Mehta grew up in a musical environment. His father, Mehli Mehta, founded the Bombay Symphony and was Music Director of the American Youth Symphony in Los Angeles. Despite this musical influence, his initial field…

Lahav Shani

Lahav Shani, the designated Music Director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO), started his conducting career when he won first prize at the 2013 Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition in Bamberg, Germany. In 2018 he became Chief Conductor of the Rotterdam…

Rachel Daliot

Rachel Daliot was born in Israel and grew up in Norway. She received her bachelor’s degree in Choral Conducting (as a student of Maestro Aharon Harlap) and Music Theory at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she also studied flute…

Tal Rockman

Tal Rockman was born in London and immigrated to Israel in 1974. She holds degrees in Musicology and Special Education from Tel Aviv University. She started working at the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in 1990, joining the IPO library in 1999….

Yuval Broner

Michal Bach

Netta Pniny

Doron Amitay

Amit Cohen

Julia Rovinsky

Julia Rovinsky is Principal Harpist of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and teaches at Tel Aviv University. She appears regularly as a soloist and in many chamber music ensembles and has taken part in many festivals in Israel and around the…

Israel Kastoriano

Israel Kastoriano was born in Istanbul, Turkey, where he began his piano studies. He subsequently studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Mannes College of Music in New York, where he graduated with highest honors in both piano…

Shemuel Hershko

Shemuel Hershko joined Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in 1978. Prior to that, he studied with two of the world’s greatest tuba players — Roger Bobo in Los Angeles and Arnold Jacobs in Chicago — with the help of an America-Israel Cultural…

Nir Erez

Nir has been Principal Trombone player of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra since 2012 and a member of the orchestra since 2008. He is also faculty at Tel Aviv University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a member of the Israel…

Tal Ben Rei

Micha Davis

I was born in 1958 to a music-loving family; At home, at Kibbutz Nir Chen, we always heard classical music. Later, when the family moved to Ashkelon, I was the nurturer of another former kibbutz member, Eliahu Grinzweig, who was…

James Madison Cox

James Madison Cox joined the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra as Principal Horn in 1990 and received his twenty-five-year pin from Maestro Zubin Mehta onstage at a concert in July 2015, during which James spoke to the public about the role of…

Dalit Segal

Dalit Segal was born in 1970 in Rehovot and began her musical education at the local conservatory. She studied the horn first with Jacob Kling and then with Yaacov Mishori, retired Principal Hornist of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. In her…

Michael Slatkin

Michael Slatkin was born in New Jersey in 1967. He began studying the horn at age ten with Alan Orloff in New York. He received a Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music in 1989, in Rochester,…

Michal Mossek

Michal Mossek began her horn studies at the age of twelve and graduated from the Israel Arts and Science Academy high school in Jerusalem. With the help of a scholarship from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation received between 1987 and 1997,…