Yossi Reshef

Yossi Reshef was born in 1973 in Jaffa

Yossi Reshef was born on April 26, 1973, in Jaffa.

He studied piano with Pnina Salzman at the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv. He then earned a doctorate at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he served as teaching assistant to his professor Norman Krieger. He also trained in conducting with John Barnett, Hans Beer and Kenneth Kiesler.

After his doctorate he taught chamber music at the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music and was a visiting piano professor at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma. He has performed as a soloist, chamber musician and conductor in Europe, Asia, the United States and Africa, including at Carnegie Hall. He has worked with orchestras such as the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra and the Azerbaijan State Symphony Orchestra.

In 2010 he moved to Berlin and opened a studio, where he prepares young pianists for international competitions. He founded and directs the Klavier am Rhein Festival and the Berliner Klavierfesttage. His work focuses on Beethoven, Dvořák, Brahms, Schumann and Liszt, and lately on artificial intelligence in music.