Israeli cellist Inbal Megiddo brings to her performances years of experience, the influence of master teachers, and praise from influential musicians. Ms Megiddo has given many concerts in Europe, Asia and America. She has had performances and radio broadcasts with the Jerusalem Symphony under the direction of Sergiu Comissiona, live recital broadcasts in several countries including Germany, Spain, Ireland, New Zealand, Israel (Mishkenot Sha’ananim Music Center, and Eden Tamir Center in Jerusalem), and the USA (Chicago - the Dame Myra Hess Concert Series - and New York’s Bob Sherman Show on WQXR).
Inbal Megiddo began her cello studies at the age of two, and gave her first performances a year later. She holds graduate and undergraduate degrees from Yale University, where she studied with Professor Aldo Parisot, and worked and collaborated with Erick Friedman, Jesse Levin, Ben Verdery, Peter Oundjian, Boris Berman, Peter Frankl, Claude Frank, and the Tokyo String Quartet. Among her other cello teachers were Prof. Uzi Wiesel, Prof. Shmuel Magen, and she received private lessons from Mstislav Rostropovich. She later performed as part of Maestro Rostropovich’s cello ensemble to mark the tenth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. She performed in master classes with such artists as Janos Starker, Heinrich Schiff, Michel Strauss, Daniel Barenboim, Pinchas Zukerman and Yuri Bashmet. Ms Megiddo has participated in the Manchester, Banff, Rolandseck (Bonn) and West-East Divan festivals as a soloist and chamber musician. In high demand also as a teacher, she has given master classes at universities and festivals including the Yale School of Music, the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory in Singapore, Central Conservatory in Beijing, the University of North Texas, the International Cello Congress in Israel, and Dublin International Master Classes. She was appointed a resource panelist for Singapore School of the Arts, and is the head of cello studies at the New Zealand School of Music.
Ms. Megiddo has received many awards and prizes, including first prizes at the William Waite competition, the Friends of Music competition, the Max Varon Fund, and the Aviezer Foundation. Since the age of six, she has been a recipient of the America Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship, under the patronage of Isaac Stern. She was selected by the Stradivari Society as a rising star as a musician “with the rare combination of extraordinary interpretive depth, virtuosity, and charisma to reach international stardom”, receiving use of a Stradivarius cello on loan.
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