Professor Michal Tal
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The preeminent Israeli pianist Michal Tal enjoys a busy and versatile international career, performing throughout to great acclaim.
She presents at her concerts "A breathtaking performance" (Tel Aviv) and "Imaginative fingers" (London).
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Buchmann-Mehta School of Music
The Jerusalem Music Center
Pianowebfest
The preeminent Israeli pianist Michal Tal enjoys a busy and versatile international career, performing throughout to great acclaim.
Her numerous performances include recitals, performances with orchestra and chamber music as well as lecture concerts. She is also invited frequently to teach and give masterclasses as well as invitations to judge in national and international piano competitions, such as The Tchaikovsky conservatory (Moscow), the Beijing Conservatory, the HKAPA (Hong Kong), Ecole Normal (Paris), the Birmingham Royal Conservatory, The Euro Arts festival (Halle, Germany), The university of New York, The Boston Conservatory, The New England Conservatory, Montclair university, the Primavera Pianistica piano festival, the Chethams piano festival, the piano festival in Tirana , UK Trinity Music And Dance international competition, The Zhongsin international music competition, and the Musicfest Perugia Festival. Recent performances include the Clara Schumann concerto for her 200 anniversary with the Jerusalem Camerata and a series with the Raanana Symphonette. Future performances for the 2020-2021 season include The Beethoven Concertos with the Jerusalem Symphony and the Jerusalem Camerata.
Tal's huge repertoire expands from Haydn to Ligeti and Berio, along with numerous premieres by Israeli composers. She performed the Berio concerto no. 2 "Echoing curves" with the Strasbourg Philharmonic and the composer conducting , and the Ligeti concerto with the 21 century ensemble. Among Tal's discography are "Great Short Masterpieces for Piano" (ROMEO) and "Erwin Schulhoff Music for Piano Solo" (CENTAUR). She performed at Carnegie Recital Hall, The Tanglewood Festival, Lincoln Center "Focus" Festival, KÖLN Festival, The piano Festival in Gulangyu, Bangkok, Helsinki, Lubliana, Stockholm, The Israel Festival, The Felicia Blumental Festival, The Cerdanya music Festival, The Israel Festival and The Kefar Blum Chamber Music Festival. As an avid chamber musician Michal Tal founded The Israeli Music Chamber Club, and today a member of The Alexander Trio with Nitay Zori and Ella Toovy.
Michal Tal was born in Tel Aviv and started her piano lessons when she was five years old. At the age of sixteen she performed as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Since then she had performed with all the leading orchestras in Israel, Europe and the U.S. such as the Virginia and Dallas Symphonies, the Strasbourg Philharmonic, the Munster Symphony and the Dutch Radio Orchestra.
She played under the baton of Leonard Slatkin, Eduardo Mata and Luciano Berio. Michal Tal is the prize winner of many competitions such as the first prize at the international competition in Dallas, the Jerusalem Symphony Competition first prize, the America-Israel Cultural Foundation and the ministry of education and culture prize, and the prestigious Rosenblum Prize for the performing arts.
Michal Tal studied at The Tel Aviv Academy of music, Indiana University, The Juilliard School and State University of New York in Stony Brook. She studied with Prof. Arie Vardi, Richard Goode, and Gilbert Kalish. Among her coaches were Leon Fleischer, Peter Serkin, Julius Levinne, Janos Starker, and Joel Krosnick. She received her PHD at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem under the supervision of Prof. Jehoash Hirshberg.
Dr. Michal Tal is on the faculty of the Buchmann-Mehta School of music, and the Givatayim Conservatory, in which she served as a pedagogic director. Dr. Tal is the founder of EPTA Israel and from 2017 the artistic director of The Outstanding Young Piano program at the Jerusalem Music Centre. Artistic director of Pianowebfest.
杰出的以色列钢琴家米哈尔·塔尔（Michal Tal）享有光辉的职业生涯履历，其表演获得国际乐坛巨大的赞誉。她的音乐活动包括钢琴独奏会、同管弦乐队合作协奏曲、参加室内乐表演，以及举办讲座音乐会。她还经常受邀在世界音乐名校举行大师课，并在国内外钢琴比赛中担任评委：如莫斯科柴可夫斯基音乐学院、北京中央音乐学院、香港大学、巴黎高等师范学院、伯明翰皇家音乐学院、德国哈雷欧洲艺术节、纽约大学、波士顿音乐学院、新英格兰音乐学院、蒙特克莱尔大学、春钢琴节、切塔姆斯钢琴节、英国地拉那钢琴节、三一国际音乐舞蹈大赛、中新国际音乐大赛、佩鲁贾音乐节。
塔尔的巨大保留曲目库包含从海顿、里盖蒂和贝里奥等作曲家的作品，她还常首演许多以色列作曲家的音乐。例如贝里奥《第一号协奏曲》、由斯特拉斯堡爱乐乐团和作曲家指挥的《曲线呼应》，以及由21世纪合奏团演奏的《利盖蒂协奏曲》，她还发行过唱片《伟大的钢琴短篇杰作》和《埃尔温·舒尔茨·霍夫钢琴独奏音乐》等。她曾在卡内基独奏厅、唐格伍德音乐节、林肯中心焦点音乐节、科隆音乐节、鼓浪屿音乐节、曼谷音乐节、赫尔辛基音乐节、卢布里亚音乐节、斯德哥尔摩音乐节、菲利希亚·布鲁明拓音乐节、塞尔达尼亚音乐节、凯法·布鲁姆室内乐音乐节上演出。作为一名衷心的室内乐演奏家，米哈尔·塔尔还创立了以色列音乐室内乐俱乐部，如今她与尼泰·佐里和艾拉·图维一起成为了亚历山大三重奏的成员。
米哈尔·塔尔出生在特拉维夫，五岁时便开始学习钢琴。16岁时，她作为独奏钢琴家同以色列爱乐乐团合作演出。从那时起，她便与以色列、欧洲和美国等国际顶级交响乐团合作演出，如弗吉尼亚和达拉斯交响乐团、斯特拉斯堡爱乐乐团、明斯特交响乐团和荷兰广播交响乐团。
米哈尔·塔尔曾和伦纳德·斯拉特金、爱德华多·马塔和卢西亚诺·贝里奥等指挥家合作演奏。她是许多国际钢琴比赛的获奖者，如达拉斯国际比赛一等奖，耶路撒冷交响乐比赛一等奖，美国-以色列文化基金会和教育部文化奖，以及久负盛名的表演艺术罗森布拉姆奖。
塔尔曾就读于特拉维夫音乐学院、印第安纳大学、茱莉亚音乐学院和纽约州立大学石溪分校。她在耶路撒冷希伯来大学获得博士学位，师从约阿什·赫什伯格教授。 她曾师从阿里·瓦尔迪、理查德·古德和吉尔伯特·卡利什教授。她还曾跟随莱昂·弗莱舍、彼得·塞尔金、朱利叶斯·莱文、亚诺斯·斯塔克和乔尔·克罗斯尼克等著名钢琴家学艺。
米哈尔·塔尔如今是布赫曼梅塔音乐学院和吉瓦泰姆音乐学院的教员，并在其中担任教学主任。塔尔还是以色列EPTA机构的创始人，自2017年起，她开始担任耶路撒冷音乐中心杰出青年钢琴家项目及音乐节的艺术总监。