Ofra
Yitzhaki
PIANIST
Her playing is physical, sensual, ecstatic.
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Known for her emotive power, clarity of interpretations, and captivating programming, pianist Ofra Yitzhaki has performed in recitals at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Germany's Klavierfestival Ruhr, Taiwan National Concert Hall, and the Vilnius Palace of Arts. She 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. She recently completed a premiere recording of the piano music of Josef Tal, co-produced by the Hessischer Rundfunk and the Culture Radio of Berlin.
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June 30, 2025
Rave Reviews of New CD
"Profound, sensitive, inventive" - Crescendo Magazine; "A terrific pianist, markedly unafraid of challenge" - Classical Explorer; "Authentic, lyrical, expressive" - Klassik heute
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April 9, 2025
Shai Cohen's New Work dedicated to Ofra Yitzhaki
Release of a new recording of Shai Cohen's 'Around the Point' for acoustic piano with a mechanical microtonal add-on. The mechanical add-on, developed by Ronen Shapira, enables the playing of microtones on a prepared piano.
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December 21, 2024
Voice of Music in the Upper Galilee Festival - in Tel Aviv!
Due to the prolonged war situation in the Upper Galilee, the festival, now in its 39th year, has moved to Tel Aviv for 2024. At the closing concert, festival's Artistic Director Ofra Yitzhaki performed Bach's D minor Concerto with the festival's players.
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November 14, 2024
New Album on TYXart
Ofra Yitzhaki's premiere recording of the complete piano music of Georgian-Israeli composer Josef Bardanashvili has been released on TYXarts 'Modern Classics' Series.
June 23, 2024
New Album for the Israel Music Institute
Ofra Yitzhaki's New Album for the Israel Music Institute was released on all digital platforms. It includes premiere recordings of works by Oded Zehavi, Wisam Gibran, Emma Shifrin, and Mordecai Seter, as well as Ofra's own arrangement of Israeli song 'Is it True?' (Here - on Spotify).
April 12, 2024
World Premiere in Chicago
By invitation of the University of Chicago, Ofra premiered Betty Olivero's new work for piano and electronics - 'Over the Face of the Waters' - at CHIMEFest, Chicago Contemporary Music Festival. Chopin, Debussy, Schoenberg, and Berio all appear here, on waves of real and imagined sounds.
December 21, 2023
World Premiere in Germany
New Inventions by Palestinian composer Wisam Gibran were premiered by Ofra Yitzhaki in a recital at the Evangelical Church of Bad Soden am Taunus. Reflecting the connections between Baroque and Arab music, Ofra performed the new works next to Inventions by J.S. Bach.
November 18, 2023
Solo Program on Berlin's 'Deutschlandfunk Kultur'
Deutschlandfunk Kultur (‘Culture Radio Germany’) in Berlin dedicated a program to Ofra's premiere recording of Josef Tal’s solo piano music. The recording was made at the Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt, by recording engineers Robin Bös and Alexander Hainz.
September 18, 2023
Opening Night of the Israel Music Fest
Accompanied by wonderful conductor Nimrod David Pfeffer and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Ofra performed Josef Tal’s 1st Piano Concerto (1945). A great piano concerto of German-romantic tradition, unjustly forgotten and abandoned for many decades, was finally revived.
July 8, 2023
Bach with the Viennese Chaos Quartet
At the closing concert of the 'Voice of Music in the Upper Galilee' Festival, Ofra collaborated for the first time with the young, up-and-coming Chaos String Quartet from Vienna, performing Bach's D Major Concerto for Keyboard and Strings.
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with festival musicians Roi Shiloah, Hagai Shalom, Yael Barolsky, Tibi Cziger and Gad Lederman
Since 2021, Ofra Yitzhaki has been the artistic director of “Voice of Music in the Upper Galilee”, Israel’s oldest and most substantial chamber music festival. Hailed by critics as “The ultimate classical music vacation”, each festival season that Yitzhaki curates is designed around a musical or cultural theme, offering audiences well-known, beloved masterpieces next to discoveries from the Israeli and international repertoire.
Ofra Yitzhaki has long been a star in her field, but nevertheless retained her modest manner. This likable woman can afford to go without any pompous attitude and formal trivialities. She does not need to put on airs. As soon as she sits at the piano, she gives herself fully to the music.
