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Warmest congratulations to Nabeel Hayek on being awarded the First prize in the 23-rd Jose Iturbi International Piano Competition in Valencia, Spain. Nazareth- born, he is an alumnus of Tel-Hai Masterclasses and a winner of our Concerto competition, having performed in this capacity the Schumann piano concerto with  Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion at Tel-Aviv Museum auditorium.

 We are proud of Nabeel's achievements and wish him every success!   Our congratulations to Tel-Hai faculty member, Prof. Asaf Zohar, who taught Nabeel for seven years at Tel-Aviv University Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, the last two in tandem with Prof. Arie Vardi.

Tel-Hai International Piano Master Classes community - participants, and faculty -bow their collective head on the passing of Professor Alexander Mndoyants, a dedicated member of the Tel-Hai faculty for more than 20 years. Born in 1949 In Yerevan, he served as a professor at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory.
Respected and beloved by his colleagues and students, Prof. Mndoyants contributed most significantly to the professional level of our master classes.
May his memory be for a blessing.

Warm and sincere congratulations to HYOJIN SHIN, a former participant at Tel Hai Masterclasses and a student of Prof. Aviram Reichert on being awarded the First prize and Audience Favorite prize in the Lyon International Piano Competition in France. Wishing you continuing success, dear Hyojin!

Warm and sincere congratulations to DMITRY YUDIN, a former participant (2022) at Tel Hai Masterclasses, on being awarded yesterday the Second prize in the Geza Anda International Piano Competition in Switzerland. Wishing you continuing success, dear Dmitry!

Tel-Hai International Piano Master Classes extends its congratulations to Nadav Ein Gal, who won second place in the 2023 Piano Audition held last summer at our 32nd consecutive Piano Master Class in the Israeli Desert. Nadav will perform Liszt's 2nd Piano Concerto, the same piece that won him the competition.The concerts are scheduled for March 13th and 14th in Ra'anana. Nadav will be accompanied by the Ra'anana Symphonette Orchestra, under the baton of conductor Maayan Franco.

Congratulations to Tetiana Donets of Ukraine, a participant in 2023 Tel Hai Masterclasses as a student of Prof. Oxana Yablonskaya, on winning the Second prize in International Johannes Brahms Competition in Poertschach, Austria (piano category).  Many further successes, Tetiana!

Hearty congratulations to Tel-Hai alumnus Yonggi Woo on winning the Second prize ex aequo in the Scottish International Piano Competition. A former student of Prof. Aviram Reichert, he won Tel-Hai concerto audition in 2015. We wish him every success!

Congratulations to Alon and Guy Ostrun, alumni of Tel Hai piano duo program, on winning the First prize in "Carles & Sofia International On-Line Piano Competition" 2023 edition , four-hands category.  Best wishes!

The winners of the Annual Concerto Auditions are:
1st - Seungmin Shin (S. Korea)
2nd - Nadav Ein-Gal (Israel)
3rd - Adam Chen-Adamov (Israel) & So Reoum An (S. Korea)
4th - Byeongchan Ha (S. Korea)
5th - Jisung Bae (S. Korea)

Audience Favorite Prize (awarded by the Perry and Senecky families) was given to:
Nadav Ein-Gal (Israel) & Adam Chen-Adamov (Israel) 

We wish to congratulate the winners of The Ashkenazi Award For A Promising Young Musician (in memory of Chaya and Chaim Ashkenazi)

Nadav Ein-Gal (Israel) and Jaebin Yun (S. Korea)