Roman Rabinovich

Israeli Classical Pianist and Composer

Born in Tashkent, Rabinovich took his first piano lessons from his parents, before immigrating to Israel with his family in 1994, where he continued his piano studies with Arie Vardi. He went on to graduate from the Curtis Institute of Music as a student of Seymour Lipkin, and earned his Master’s Degree at The Juilliard School where he studied with Robert McDonald. Dubbed ‘a true polymath, in the Renaissance sense of the word’ (Seen & Heard International, 2016), Rabinovich is also a composer and visual artist. He often includes his own compositions in his recital programmes. His first recording, of transcriptions of ballet music by Ravel, Prokofiev and Stravinsky for Orchid Classics (ORC100028), including his own transcriptions and artwork, received critical acclaim. Lauded as ‘a master of tone-colour’ (International Piano, 2018), Rabinovich made his Israel Philharmonic début under the baton of Zubin Mehta at age ten. He was a top prizewinner at the 12th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in 2008, while in 2015, he was selected by Sir András Schiff as one of three pianists for the inaugural Building Bridges series, created to highlight young pianists of unusual promise.