Michael Harari

I’ve long been a music lover. In fact, I can’t resist the urge to dance when I hear a beat, even from a car driving by.


My passion for music came to life at age 12, when I got my first musical instrument: an electric keyboard for my birthday. I played it to death and used my gifted ear to play Beethoven’s Fur Elise. To this day I have trouble reading sheet music because I have a knack to get through a song by ear and permanently commit it to memory.


My experience flourished at age 13 when my parents bought me a beautiful baby grand Steinway piano (which I still play almost 25 years later), and I got disciplined about piano playing, getting a Juilliard teacher and practicing scales and arpeggios for 3-4 hours a day after school.


I started composing music and playing many of the classics from the greats including Mozart, Chopin, Bach, and my favorite: Rachmaninoff. I later performed Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in G Minor at the Count Bassie Theater in New Jersey in front of a thousand people. What a thrilling experience!


My interests later took me to play several other instruments including the Ney (an Arabic
Natural end-blown flute), and the Qanun (a flat wooden string instrument), and I later taught a course on music theory of Arabic scales, which include quarter tones.


“For Life” was an original work I created in 2014 that I used in a surprise proposal to my beautiful wife, Esther, in NYC. It’s essence is imbued with the deep love we share.