Professor at Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, the Queen Sofia Superior School of Music in Madrid, and International Piano Foundation at Lake Como, Italy. Among today's foremost pianists and pedagogues. Winner of Marguerite Long competition in Paris, he has performed with Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, l'Orchestre de Paris, Israel Philharmonic, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Gewandhaus Orchestra, Vienna Symphony, among many others. Has given master classes the world over: at Salzburg Mozarteum, Gilmore and Verbier festivals, Paris Conservatory, Sibelius Academy, Mannes College. Adjudicated such competitions as the Richter in Moscow, Horowitz in Kiev, Rubinstein in Tel Aviv, Santander, Leeds, Minneapolis.

Professor of Piano, New England Conservatory in Boston; for 25 years served Chairman of piano department. Formerly mainstay faculty member at Aspen Music Festival. Performed throughout USA, Europe, Japan, and Israel. Was heard as soloist with Chicago Symphony, Radio Philharmonic Orchestra of Holland, Aspen Chamber Symphony, Jerusalem Symphony, and other orchestras. Among the venues of his master classes and lecture-demonstrations -- Yale University, Indiana University, Chautauqua Festival, the Guildhall School of Music in London, the Leipzig Hochschule, Seoul National University, Toho Gakuen School of Music (Japan), Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo, Edward Aldwell Institute, Jerusalem. Recorded for Fleur de Son, Centaur, Orion, Victor/Japan, and CRI. His principal piano teacher was Aube Tzerko, a major disciple of Artur Schnabel; in music theory – Leonard Stein, an assistant to Arnold Schoenberg.

One of today's most acclaimed pianists, winner of the Clara Haskil, Leeds, and Salzburg Mozart international competitions, Michel Dalberto has been appointed professor at the Paris Conservatory, effective September 2011. He is also professor at Piano Academy "Incontro col Maestro” in Imola, Italy. Celebrated for performances of music by Mozart, Schubert (recorded the collected composer's piano oeuvre), Schumann, Liszt, Debussy, Ravel. Appeared the world over with conductors Sir Colin Davis, Rudolf Barshai, Erich Leinsdorf, Charles Dutoit, Eliahu Inbal, Wolfgang Sawallish, and others. Collaborated with singers Jessye Norman and Barbara Hendricks, violinist Henryk Szeryng, cellists Truls Mørk and Lynn Harrell, violist Yuri Bashmet, etc. Took part in the Schleswig-Holstein, Lucerne, Florence, Edinburgh, Aix-en-Provence festivals, among others. Conducted master classes in France, England, Canada, Italy, Japan, and China. Serves jury chairman of the Clara Haskil piano competition in Vevey, Switzerland. Began playing the piano at age three-and-a-half; his teachers were Vlado Perlemuter and Jean Hubeau.

Professor of Piano, Rotterdam Conservatory; professor, Mozarteum in Salzburg; visiting professor, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester. Regular master classes at Juilliard, Manhattan Schools, and Mannes College in New York, Moscow and St. Petersburg Conservatories, Toho University in Tokyo, München, Karlsruhe and Hamburg Schools, in Sydney, Melbourne, Seoul, Osaka, Bangkok, Indiana, Baltimore. His pupils won over 100 international competition prizes. His voluminous discography is under EMI His Master's Voice, BASF Harmonia Mundi, BMG-RCA Victor, Pavane, and EMS labels. Currently engaged in recording the complete Beethoven piano sonatas. Extensive concert appearances throughout Europe, twenty tours of Japan, eight of Australia, performances in USA and Mexico. Has collaborated with such conductors as Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Leopold Hager, Alberto Lysy, Vladimir Kim, Lee Dong-Ho, Ferdinand Terbi, among many others. Adjudicated Sydney, Pretoria, Cincinnati, Warsaw, Turin, Paris, Tbilisi competitions. Studied with Claudio Arrau, Eduardo del Pueyo, and György Cziffra.

Pianist, conductor, arranger, he serves as assistant to the music director of Haifa Symphony Orchestra and faculty member of the Levinsky College master degree program. Winner of the 2006 Gina Bachauer Award from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation; has performed as piano soloist and conductor with Haifa Symphony, Jerusalem Camerata Orchestra, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Ra'anana Symphonette, and Tel-Aviv Soloists' Ensemble. Appeared in Britain, Germany, Austria, Poland and Belgium. Studied conducting with Noam Sheriff, composition with Sergiu Natra, and piano with Hadassa Biribis, Emanuel Krasovsky and Pnina Salzman. Master of Music degree from the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, Tel-Aviv University. Has served as Music Producer to Tel Hai International Piano Master Classes since 2002.

Professor of Piano at Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, Tel Aviv University; Chair, piano faculty. Born in Lithuania; studied with Mindru Katz, Ilona Kabos, Guido Agosti, Aube Tzerko, and Ania Dorfmann. Doctor of Musical Arts degree, Juilliard School. Soloist with Israel Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein, Carlo Rizzi, Sidney Harth and others, as well as with other Israel's orchestras. Recitals in USA, Europe, and Israel. Recorded on CD late piano sonatas by Schubert. Collaborated in concert with Isaac Stern, Natalia Gutman, Ileana Cotrubas, among others. Took part in numerous international chamber-music festivals. Taught master-classes at Juilliard, Mannes International Keyobard Festival, Paris Conservatory, London Royal Academy of Music, Royal College, and Guildhall School, Queen Sofia School in Madrid, Berlin Universität der Künste, Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and Gnessin Academy, St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Oberlin College, Colburn Conservatory in Los Angeles, Copenhagen Royal Music Academy, Stockholm U. College of Music, Bologna, Vienna, Vilnius, Tbilisi Conservatories, Edward Aldwell Institute (Jerusalem) etc. Jury member at international competitions: Arthur Rubinstein, Leeds, Dublin, Iturbi (Valencia), Honens, Horowitz (Kiev), Maj Lind (Helsinki), Konzerteum (Greece), Tbilisi, Bremen, Takamatsu, Canberra, Pinerolo, Sennigalia, Cincinnati, and others.

Head of Keyboard Studies; Head of Advanced Performance Studies at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. Extensive performance career in Europe, Asia, USA, Canada, Australia, South Africa. Soloist with such orchestras as London Philharmonic, Philharmonia, BBC Symphony, English Chamber Orchestra, Hallé, the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Indianapolis Symphony, Zurich Tonhalle, Brno Philharmonic, Queensland Philharmonic, among others, under the baton of Sir Yehudi Menuhin, James Judd, Hans Vonk, Bramwell Tovey, Edo de Waart, etc. His radio and TV broadcasts include a televised recital for Chopin Society, Warsaw, and Mozart Chamber Music for BBC TV. Recorded over 30 CD's for Tring International, Virgin Classics, Dinemic, and Fone labels. Studied at Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester with Ryszard Bakst.

Professor emeritus, for 23 years Chairman of the Piano Department, the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. Held leading teaching positions at the music academies in Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Edsberg. Spanish born, studied at Barcelona Conservatory, later at Royal College, London. Appears regularly throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas as soloist with orchestras, recitalist, and chamber-music performer. Has been heard with such conductors as Jascha Horenstein, Pierre Monteux, Eduardo Mata, Eliahu Inbal, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Yuri Temirkanov, and others. Made numerous recordings for EMI, SR Records, Caprice, and Dunacord labels as well as for radio and TV in many countries. An enthusiastic champion of contemporary music, Ribera has given many world premieres of works written especially for him.

Professor of Piano, Gnessin Academy of Music and Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow. Studied at the Gnessin with Moisei Feigin and Theodor Gutman – pupils of Heinrich Neuhaus. Winner of several competition prizes, among them the Enescu international competition in Bucharest. After graduating, was appointed to the Gnessin teaching faculty. Has taught master classes in France, Holland, Germany, USA, China, Japan, Korea, etc. His students have won major competitions. Performs as a recitalist and chamber musician; took part in Kuhmo festival in Finland and Portogruaro in Italy. Renown as exponent of Russian Romantic composers – Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Medtner, Borodin, Scriabin. His recoedings for Denon (Japan) have won prizes and recognition. Made extensive study of Rachmaninoff’s life and work.