Persons

Barak Tal

Conductor

Biography

Barak Tal is a founder and Music Director of the Tel-Aviv Soloists Ensemble since 2001.

Barak Tal has conducted orchestras in the world’s major concert halls, such as Carnegie Hall, New York, Konzerthaus, Vienna, Tchaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall, Moscow, and Tel-Aviv’s Mann Auditorium. As guest conductor, Mr. Tal has performed with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Moscow Symphony Orchestra and Kuban Symphony Orchestra (Russia), Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra (Poland), Vaasa City Orchestra (Finland), Sinfonietta Cracovia (Poland), Neue Philharmonie Westfalen (Germany), and others.

Mr. Tal has served as Principal Guest Conductor of the Israel Young Philharmonic Orchestra, Music Director of the Haifa Youth Symphony Orchestra, Music Director of Matan Symphony Orchestra, and Assistant Conductor of the Israel Northern Symphony, Haifa.

He is the recipient of major Israeli awards, such as the 2006 Oedoen Partos Award for outstanding performance of an Israeli composition, granted by the Israeli Ministry of Culture, and of the 2007 Rosenblum Award for outstanding artist, granted by the Tel-Aviv Municipality. He is also a recipient of scholarships and grants by the American-Israel Cultural Foundation.

Mr. Tal has studied in master courses in Europe with conductors Kurt Mazur, Neeme Jarvi, Jorma Panula, Vladimir Ponkin and Zsolt Nagy. He graduated from the Jerusalem Music Academy and the Buchman-Mehta School of Music, Tel-Aviv University, where he studied conducting with Prof. Mendi Rodan and Evgeny Zirlin.

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Grand Hall:
191186, St. Petersburg, Mikhailovskaya st., 2
+7 (812) 240-01-80, +7 (812) 240-01-00
Small Hall:
191011, St. Petersburg, Nevsky av., 30
+7 (812) 240-01-70
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