Gil Shohat

Gil Shohat was born in 1973 in Tel Aviv

Gil Shohat was born in Tel Aviv on 7 September 1973 and grew up in Ramat Gan. His mother is the Haaretz journalist Tzipi Shohat, and his father, Yehuda Shohat, is a former head of the Max Fine college. He began playing piano at 5 and composed and performed his own piano works as a child.

He sang in the Bat Kol choir and graduated from Ohel Shem high school and the Israel Conservatory of Music in Tel Aviv. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees at Tel Aviv University. He then studied in Rome at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and at Cambridge University with Alexander Goehr.

His first orchestral work was performed by the Israel Chamber Orchestra when he was 18. During army service he commanded the IDF Chamber Orchestra.

He has written 9 symphonies, 15 concertos, 4 operas and more than 50 chamber and solo works, mostly published by Ricordi in Italy. The Israeli Opera staged his opera The Child Dreams, based on a play by Hanoch Levin, in 2010. In 2025 his opera The Eichmann Trial was staged in Bucharest. He lives in Jaffa with his partner.