Yoav Levanon

Yoav Levanon was born in 2004 in Ramat HaSharon

Yoav Levanon was born on March 3, 2004, in Ramat HaSharon. He began piano lessons at age 3 and first played for an audience at age 4. At age 6 he won a gold medal at an international piano competition in the United States and was invited to play at Carnegie Hall in New York.

At age 7 he played a concerto as a soloist with the Israel Chamber Orchestra, and later toured with the Moscow Soloists under Vladimir Spivakov. As a child he also played with the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra in Budapest and at the Teatro San Carlo in Italy under Daniel Oren. At age 10 he received a scholarship from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation.

In 2018 he played Rachmaninoff's second concerto with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under Aryeh Vardi. In 2019 he received the Young Talent Award at the National Auditorium in Madrid, where he also played Tchaikovsky's first concerto. In 2020 he took part in a piano event in Germany with Martha Argerich and played at a festival in Toulouse, France.

In 2021 he joined a filmed project with Daniel Barenboim and performed in France, Switzerland, Lithuania and Germany. He studies in master classes, including a program at the Targ Music Center in Jerusalem led by Murray Perahia. In 2022 he was named to the Forbes Israel 30 Under 30 list.