Masterclass: Asaf Zohar, Pianist and Lecturer

Join the School of Music for a free, public masterclass by Israeli pianist and pedagogue, Asaf Zohar.

Asaf Zohar is a graduate of the Givatayim Conservatory and The Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv. He received his Doctorate degree from the Indiana University School of Music, where he was also a visiting lecturer.  His teachers include: Hana Shalgi, Arie Vardi, Menahem Pressler, Leonard Hokanson and Michele Block. Artists for whom he performed in masterclasses include: Arthur Rubinstein, Alfred Brendel, Christoph Eschenbach, Eugene Istomin, Leon Fleisher and Claude Frank.

Dr. Zohar is Professor for Piano at The Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at The Tel-Aviv University, and teaches at Givatayim Conservatory and The Jerusalem Music Center. He has also taught at The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance where he has served as Chairman of the Keyboard Department and Dean of the Faculty of Performing Arts.  In recent years, he has edited, lectured and performed in a series of lectured concerts in Israel presenting Beethoven's Piano Sonatas, Mozart's Concerti, and piano works of Chopin, Brahms, Schubert and Schumann among others.