Ofra Yitzhaki

Known for her emotive power, clarity of interpretations, and captivating programming, pianist Ofra Yitzhaki has performed for audiences at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Taiwan National Concert Hall, Berlin’s Museum of Musical Instruments, and at the Vilnius Palace of Arts. Her recital at the Klavierfestival Ruhr — playing Bach alongside European premieres of Israeli and American music — was described by the Westfaelische Rundschau as “an evening with soul, poetry, and glorious sounds.”

Yitzhaki has performed over thirty concerti—from Bartok and Haydn, to Ligeti and Messiaen with the Berlin Symphony, the Romanian Radio Orchestra, as well as both the American and Jerusalem Symphony Orchestras. Committed to new music, she has premiered more than 50 works for solo and chamber ensembles. Her close collaboration with composer Milton Babbitt led to a successful premier of his music at Carnegie Hall, and her work with the Parisian Ensemble Intercontemporain was described by the Israeli Ha’aretz as “a new, superb league for the performance of modern music.” She recently recorded the piano music of Josef Tal in a co-production of the Hessischer Rundfunk and the Culture Radio of Berlin.

On faculty at Tel Aviv University’s Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, Yitzhaki is also the artistic director of the “Voice of Music in the Upper Galilee,” Israel’s oldest and largest chamber music festival. She holds a Doctorate in Piano Performance from the Juilliard School.