For more than two decades, Itamar Golan has been partnering the most outstanding instrumentalists of our time. His work has brought him great critical acclaim and he is one of the most sought after pianists of his generation, playing at the most prestigious venues around the world.

Born in Vilnius (Lithuania), his family emigrated to Israel when he was one year old. There he started his musical studies and at the age of seven gave his first concerts in Tel Aviv.

He was repeatedly awarded scholarships from the American-Israel Cultural Foundation which enabled him to study with Emanuel Krasovsky and his chamber music mentor Chaim Taub. Later under a full scholarship from the New England Conservatory in Boston, he was chosen to study with Leonard Shure.

Since his earliest years, Itamar Golan’s passion has been chamber music, but he has also appeared as a soloist with some of the major orchestras including the Israel Philharmonic and the Berlin Philharmonic under the baton of Zubin Mehta, the Royal Philharmonic under Daniele Gatti, the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala and the Vienna Philharmonic under the direction of Riccardo Muti and the Philharmonia Orchestra under the direction of Lorin Maazel.

Over the years he has collaborated with such musicians as Vadim Repin, Maxim Vengerov, Julian Rachlin, Mischa Maisky, Shlomo Mintz, Ivry Gitlis, Ida Haendel, Kyung Wha Chung, Sharon Kam, Janine Jansen, Martin Frost and Torleif Thedéen. He is a frequent participant in many prestigious international music festivals, such as Salzburg, Verbier, Lucerne, Tanglewood and Ravinia, and he has made numerous recordings for labels such as Deutsche Grammophon, Warner Classics, Teldec, EMI and Sony Classical.

In 1991, Itamar Golan was nominated to the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music, making him one of their youngest teachers ever. Since 1994, he has taught chamber music at the Paris Conservatory. He resides in Paris, where he is involved in many different artistic projects.