Tali Kravitz

Israeli violist Tali Kravitz has been enjoying an active career both as performer and pedagogue. An avid chamber musician, Tali performed on stages throughout the United States, Canada, South Korea, Israel and Europe, often collaborating with today’s leading artists.

Currently a faculty member at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and the Lin & Ted Arison Israel Conservatory, Tel Aviv, Tali also served on the faculty at Manhattan School of Music Precollege Division, the Summit Music Festival in New York, the National Arts Center Orchestra Young Artists Program Precollege in Canada, the Levinsky-Wingate College of Education, the Jerusalem Conservatory Hassadna and the Keshet Eilon Seminar Programs.

With a burgeoning schedule as recitalist and chamber musician, Tali’s performances have included, among others, the stages of Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall and the Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York; the Bennett-Gordon Hall in Chicago; the Seoul Arts Center in South Korea; the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Jerusalem Music Center in Israel - where her performances were nationally broadcast on Israeli National Radio; the Israel Embassies both in Washington D.C and Ottawa, Canada.

Chamber music collaborations have included performances with the American String Quartet, Mikhail Kopelman, Timothy Eddy, Dmitri Berlinsky, Alena Baeva, Alexandra Conunova, Vadym Kholodenko, Boris Slutsky, Hagai Shaham, Guy Braunstein, Zvi Plesser, Nitai Zori, Hillel Zori, Michal Tal, Ella Toovy, Roi Shiloah, Arnon Erez, Eli Eban and the Israel Haydn Quartet, among others.

Tali was a recipient of prizes and awards, among which are the First Prize at the 5 Town Music & Art Foundation String Competition (Long Island, NY); First Prize at the String Orchestra of the Rockies Concerto Competition (Missoula, Montana); First Place at the Joyce Dutka Arts Foundation Instrumental Competition (NY); and was the winner of the Virtu Foundation Scholarship Competition. Tali was also a recipient of the Career Grant from the Rachel Elizabeth Barton Foundation and the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarships for gifted musicians.

Tali holds a BM and a MM from the Manhattan School of Music where she studied in the Pinchas Zukerman Performance Program, under the guidance of Pinchas Zukerman and Patinka Kopec. In master class settings, Tali has profited from the guidance of Itzhak Perlman, Michael Tree, Robert Mann, Kim Kashkashian, Atar Arad, Donald Weilerstein, Miriam Fried, Ivry Gitlis and Pamela Frank. Among her chamber music coaches are Lawrence Dutton, Andre-Michel Schub, Sylvia Rosenberg, Isidore Cohen and Ruth Laredo.

Additional training programs include the Steans Institute for Young Artists of the Ravinia Festival in Chicago, the Summer Music Institute of the National Arts Center Orchestra in Ottawa, Canada, the Perlman Music Program's chamber music workshop in Shelter Island, New York and the Keshet Eilon violin master-course in Israel. In 2010, participated in Kronberg Academy’s “Chamber Music Connects the World” in Germany, where she performed in chamber music and ensembles with Gidon Kremer and Frans Helmerson.

Tali also earned a MS in Neuroscience and Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, in 2013.