Arie Vardi
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Arie Vardi is an Israeli classical pianist and piano pedagogue.
He is currently teaching at the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv, the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hanover and at the Bowdoin International Music Festival in Brunswick, Maine. His students include many of today's leading concert artists, and more than 30 of them have won grand prizes major international piano competitions.
His recordings of the music of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel have won many prizes and critical acclaim.
Vardi began his musical career at the age of fifteen. He won the George Enescu International Competition in Bucharest. He then studied with Paul Baumgartner, Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
[edit] External links
- Official site
- Profile from Actcity.jp
- Profile from 11th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition official site Vardi was chairman of the panel for this event
- "Israeli Pianist Arie Vardi Visits Juilliard" by Elizabeth Morgan (from the May 2002 Juilliard Journal Online)