Guy Mintus Trio

Israeli pianist, composer, vocalist and educator Guy Mintus is a trained concert pianist with the energy of a rock-star and a jazz musician’s sense of adventure unafraid to throw into the mix his native middle-eastern scales and rhythms. Coming from a mixed heritage of Iraqi, Moroccan & Polish Jews, Guy's music is a true melting pot. He's feeling equally at home whether he’s sharing the stage with jazz legends, composing for classical orchestras or collaborating with masters of traditional music.

Guy’s awards include the “Leonard Bernstein Award” by ASCAP and the Bernstein Family Foundation and the Prix du Public at the Montreux Jazz Festival’s solo piano competition. His debut record, “A Home in Between” has been selected as DownBeat Magazine’s Editor’s Pick while his most recent release, “Connecting the Dots”, has been celebrated in concerts throughout the US, Canada, France, Switzerland, Germany, Israel, Turkey and Kazakhstan including a New York CD release concert that has been recommended by the New York Times.

Guy has been commissioned to compose works by the American Composers Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and the Jerusalem East & West Orchestra. He has performed Rhapsody in Blue with the Bavarian Philharmonic, composed music for Miracle of Miracles, the new documentary about Fiddler on the Roof, by HBO director Max Lewkowicz and premiered his first piano concerto with the Israel Chamber Orchestra. Guy is an endorsed artist by Yamaha Pianos.