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Kobi Arad

Kobi Arad is an Israeli-born American jazz pianist, composer and music producer who leads the Kobi Arad Band.

born 1981Leading the Kobi Arad BandJazz piano and compositionWork with Stevie Wonder

Born: 2 October 1981, Haifa
Occupation: composer, record producer, pianist

Kobi Arad was born in 1981 in Haifa

Kobi Arad was born on October 2, 1981 in Haifa, Israel, and grew up there.

He earned a bachelor's degree at Tel Aviv University. He then became the first musician to earn a doctorate in contemporary improvisation and third stream from the New England Conservatory of Music.

In the 1990s he played keyboards in a trio with Asaf Sirkis and Gabriel Mayer in Israel. In 2005 he worked with Stevie Wonder at the Berklee Performance Center. His album Sparks of Understanding came out in 2009 with drummer Bob Moses.

In 2015 he released The Experience Project, Webern Re-Visioned and Superflow, a work with Roy Ayers. His album Segments won Best Jazz Instrumental at the 17th Independent Music Awards in 2019. He won a Hollywood Music in Media Award in 2021 for his version of Thelonious Monk's Bemsha Swing.

In 2025 his composition Weave won a Hollywood Independent Music Award for Best Jazz. That year he also served as executive producer and sound advisor on the project Gandhi by Ricky Kej and Lonnie Park.