Israeli pianist and composer IDO ("ANDY") FELDBAU has been an active figure in his musical life, performing concertos with four orchestras (using his own cadenzas), giving festival recitals, playing live broadcasts on WQXR and the Israel Radio, performing in main Recital Halls such as Carnegie Hall, Tel Aviv Museum, Jerusalem Theatre, and serving as accompanist to several choirs and the Tel-Hai International Master Classes for pianists. In recent years, Mr. Feldbau won First Prize in the American Protege International Piano and Strings Competition, various competitions in Israel and Russia as well as excellence Scholarships awarded by the America-Israel Culture Fund and the Hebrew Free Loan Society.
Mr. Feldbau has participated in Master Classes under Leslie Howard, Staffan Scheja, Alon Goldstein, Daniel Hoechster and Gilad Mishori. As a composer, he has composed many pieces for the piano, most of which he has performed and recorded. He has also created pieces for choir and piano, various solo instruments, chamber music, orchestrations and arrangements for classic modern compositions. In addition he has composed and performed various cadenzas to piano concertos of Mozart, Haydn and Rachmaninov. Mr. Feldbau was personal assistant of the Israeli composer Gil Shohat.
Mr. Feldbau is currently pursuing a Master's degree at The Juilliard School, studying with Prof. Julian Martin. In 2008 he received his Bachelor's degree from the Buchman-Mehta School of Music as a student of Prof. Emanuel Krasovsky. His performance tonight with the LA Jewish Symphony is sponsored by the America-Israel Cultural Foundation.
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