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BIG congratulations to our students Mohammed Alshaikh for winning 1st prize, and to Dani Dvorkin for winning 3rd prize at the Young Artist Competition in Jerusalem!

Mohammed participated in Tel-Hai Master Classes of 2017 and Dani participated in 2018.

We are very proud of you both and wish you all the success in your continuing careers as pianists!

Warm congratulations to Seung Hui Kim, student of Prof. Reichert and participant at Tel-Hai Master Classes in 2018, on her winning this September the 3rd prize at the International Karol Szymanowski Music Competition in Katowice, Poland.

Kim played Szymanowski Variations at our Gala concert at the Tel Aviv Museum this past August.

We wish you lots of success and happiness!

Concerto Competition 2018 Winners:

1st prize: Suah Ye 
2nd prize: Jinzhao Xu
3rd prize: Yinqi Wang & Aidan Mikdad
Audience favorite: Yinqi Wang
4th place: Itai Navon
5th place: Dora Petković

Congratulations!

The Tel-Hai community sends heartfelt congratulations to our alumnus LAHAV SHANI on being appointed the Music Director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. We are hugely proud of Lahav's achievements and wish him, a successor to the legendary Maestro Zubin Mehta, tremendous artistic triumphs!

Tel-Hai Master Classes are proud to announce that Nimrod David Pfeffer, our former participant, has won the third prize in the Maestro Solti International Conducting Competition in Hungary.

Nimrod will also be conducting the Israeli Opera production of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" in February 2018, replacing Daniel Oren.  

We are very happy to announce that our co-recipient of the Pnina Salzman Memorial Prize for excellence at the 2017 classes, Ji Young Kim from South Korea (student of our faculty, Aviram Reichert), just won Third Prize at The 4th Maj Lind International Piano Competition in Helsinki, Finland (Dmitri Bashkirov was the Chairman of the Jury). Warm congratulations from all of us in the Tel Hai International Piano Master Classes!

Concerto Competition 2017 Winners:

Winners:

1st prize: Daria Korotkova

2nd prize: Tom Borrow

3rd prize: Adam Balogh

Audience favorite: Tom Borrow

4th place: Chris Jooyoung Han and Jiyoung Kim

5th place: Salome Jordania

Congratulations!

Warm congratulations to Yevgeny Yontov, our frequent attendee, on reaching the final round of the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, winning the Best Chamber Music Performance award, and sharing the 4th - 6th ex aequo prizes. Every success, Yevgeny!

Congratulations to Kemova Sisters Piano Duo upon winning the Second Prize at London Grand Prize Virtuoso Competition 2017, Mixed chamber music category.

Warm congratulations and best wishes to Yoon Jeong Hyun, Tel-Hai participant in 2015 and winner of that year's Jasha Bistritzky Concerto Competition at Sde Boker, upon just being awarded the Second Prize in the Hong Kong International Piano Competition!

We congratulate Prof. Aviram Reichert, our faculty member, on this lustrous recognition of his student.