Alon Sariel

Alon Sariel was born in 1986 in Beersheba

Alon Sariel was born in Beersheba on 11 May 1986, the youngest of 5 siblings. He began the mandolin at age 8 at the Beersheba Conservatory. During his father's sabbatical at Caltech, the family lived for a year in Los Angeles, where he heard bluegrass mandolin.

In 2004 he entered the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, where he studied mandolin, violin and conducting. He won the academy's competitions for strings in 2006, chamber music in 2007 and conducting in 2009, and graduated in 2009. He also studied at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels in 2008, where he took up the lute, and at the Hannover music university from 2010 to 2015.

From 2007 to 2012 he toured with Daniel Barenboim's West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. As a mandolin soloist and often as conductor, he has appeared with many Israeli orchestras and with English orchestras. The Orchestra of the City commissioned the work Nedudim by Gilad Hochman for him in 2014, and he recorded it with the Kammerorchester Berlin in 2016.

In 2015 he founded Concerto Foscari, an international ensemble on historical instruments. In the same year he co-founded the quartet PRISMA. He has also worked as a continuo player with baroque ensembles.