Biography

Born in Israel in 1975, Eliran Avni studied at the Tel Aviv Academy of Music with Marina Bondarenko. He received both his BM and MM degrees studying with Dr. Yoheved Kaplinsky

Yoheved Kaplinsky

Yoheved "Veda" Kaplinsky is an award-winning classical pianist, lecturer and professor of music at the Juilliard School...

 at the Juilliard School

Juilliard School

The Juilliard School, located at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, United States, is a performing arts conservatory which was established in 1905...

. Currently, he is working on his Doctorate dissertation with Carl Schachter

Carl Schachter

Carl Schachter is an American music theorist, renowned as arguably the most influential Schenkerian analyst since Schenker himself. He studied with Felix Salzer, who was later co-author with Schachter of the influential text, Counterpoint in Composition. He received the B.S., from the Mannes...

.

At the age of 17, Mr. Avni won first prize in both the Clairmont and Rachmaninoff Competitions in Israel. Those led to an early debut with Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under Zubin Mehta

Zubin Mehta

Zubin Mehta is an Indian conductor of western classical music. He is the Music Director for Life of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.-Biography:...

 performing Rachmaninoff's first piano concerto.

In 2005, Avni recorded the complete piano works of Israeli composer Avner Dorman

Avner Dorman

Avner Dorman is an Israeli born composer of contemporary classical music.- Biography :Avner Dorman holds a Doctorate in Music Composition from the Juilliard School where he studied as a C.V. Starr fellow with John Corigliano...

 at Tanglewood’s Ozawa Hall. The recording was produced by Grammy Award-winning producer David Frost

David Frost

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, and was released on the Naxos Records

Naxos Records

Naxos Records is a record label specializing in classical music. Through a number of imprints, Naxos also releases genres including Chinese music, jazz, world music, and early rock & roll. The company was founded in 1987 by Klaus Heymann, a German-born resident of Hong Kong.Naxos is the largest...

label.

Sources

• Official biography from his personal site, above