Rami Bar-Niv

Rami Bar-Niv was born in 1945 in Tel Aviv

Rami Bar-Niv was born in Tel Aviv on December 1, 1945. He studied at the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv, learning piano with Karol Klein and composition with Paul Ben-Haim, Alexander Boskovitch and Ödön Pártos.

In 1966 a grant from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation took him to Mannes College of Music in the United States. There he studied with Nadia Reisenberg and the theorist Carl Schachter. In the summer of 1968 he studied with the piano duo Vronsky & Babin.

In 1974 he played Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under Paul Paray. He gave violin and piano recitals in Israel with Shlomo Mintz and played with many chamber groups. He was the first Israeli musician to perform in Egypt after the 1979 peace treaty.

In 1989 the Israeli government gave him its annual performer award. He recorded for CBS and other labels as a soloist and chamber player, and his compositions appeared with several Israeli publishers. In 2012 he published his first book, on piano fingering.