Tal Gamlieli

Tal Gamlieli has been working professionally since 2007. He collaborated with musicians such as trumpeter Avishai Cohen, pianist Danilo Perez and has been leading his own trio since 2014.

He is a recipient of a Downbeat Magazine Award for Outstanding Performance. Tal possesses a highly expressive, lyrical and harmonious musical style that expresses a range of feelings and emotions from longing and compassion to cheerful playfulness.

Some of Tal’s Main inspirations include artists such as Tigran Hamasyan, Charlie Haden, Antonio Carlos Jobim, bassist Avishai Cohen and Chet Baker.

Tal grew up in a farm in the Judean mountains near Jerusalem. From one side, Tal’s father’s family immigrated to Israel in the from Kurdistan bringing with them the music and tribal dances of the region and from the other side, his mother’s family fled from Nazi Germany in 1936 exposing Tal to the world of classical music and the European culture.

From a very early age it was clear to Tal that music can bring people together by its power to evoke universal feelings, leading him to pursue a career in music.

Since completing his master’s degree at the New England Conservatory in Boston in 2008, Tal shared the stage with some of the world’s leading jazz musicians such as Danilo Perez, trumpeter Avishai Cohen, Jerry Bergonzy, Joanne Brackeen, Liz Wright and many other outstanding performers.