Rami Bar-Niv ( he, רמי בר-ניב; born December 1, 1945 in
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the ...
,
Mandatory Palestine
Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 ...
) is an Israeli pianist, composer, author, and instructor of
master classes
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.
Bar-Niv is a graduate of the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv, where he studied piano with
Karol Klein and composition with
Paul Ben-Haim
Paul Ben-Haim (or Paul Ben-Chaim, Hebrew: פאול בן חיים) (5 July 1897 – 14 January 1984) was an Israeli composer. Born Paul Frankenburger in Munich, Germany, he studied composition with Friedrich Klose and he was assistant conductor t ...
,
Alexander Boskovitch, and
Ödön Pártos. He won a grant from the
America-Israel Cultural Foundation
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History
The America-Israel Cultural Foundation was established in 1939 to support the growth and development of a Jewish ...
in 1966 to continue his studies at
Mannes College of Music
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in the United States, where he studied with
Nadia Reisenberg
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Biography
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and with the theorist
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Born in Chicago, he attended Austin H ...
. During the summer of 1968, Bar-Niv studied with duo pianists
Vronsky & Babin. In 1970, William Gunther asked Rami Bar-Niv to replace him in the
First Piano Quartet.
Bar-Niv has performed in concerts worldwide.
In 1974, he performed Mozart's
Piano Concerto No. 23 with the
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
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, conducted by
Paul Paray
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Early life and education
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. He presented a series of violin and piano recitals with
Shlomo Mintz
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in Israel, and has performed extensively with various chamber ensembles in Israel and abroad.
He was the first Israeli musician to perform in Egypt after the 1979 peace treaty with Israel,
and in 1989, received the annual "Best Performer Award" from the Israeli government.
Bar-Niv's compositions have been published by the Israel Music Institute, Israel Music Publications, AndreA, and Or-Tav Publication.
Israel Music Publications
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In 2012, Bar-Niv published his first book ''The Art of Piano Fingering – Traditional, Advanced, and Innovative''.
Tim Page of the New York Times
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described Bar-Niv's New York City
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performance of Shostakovich
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's first piano concerto as "flamboyant and effective". He has recorded a number of records for CBS
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and other labels, both as soloist and as a chamber player. One of them is the only piano recording of the complete "Little Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach".
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1945 births
Living people
Israeli classical pianists
Jewish classical pianists
Israeli composers
Israel Prize in music recipients
Jewish classical composers
Male classical composers
Male classical pianists
21st-century classical pianists
21st-century male musicians