Arie Vardi

Arie Vardi
Background information
Born	1937 (age 79–80) Tel Aviv
Origin	Israel
Genres	Classical
Occupation(s)	Pianist, Conductor
Instruments	Piano

Arie Vardi (Hebrew: אריה ורדי‎‎; born 1937 in Tel Aviv) is a classical pianist, conductor and piano pedagogue. He is laureate of the Israel Prize in 2017.

Arie Vardi graduated from the Rubin Academy of Tel Aviv University, Israel, and obtained the soloist diploma from at Musik Akademie - Basel, Switzerland. His teachers included Paul Baumgartner (piano), Pierre Boulez and (composition). Alongside his study of music he succeeded in obtaining a law degree at the same University. He then went on to become professor of piano and Head of Department at the Rubin Academy (renamed the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in 2005), and later became the Head of the School.

Arie Vardi launched his concert career at the age of fifteen as the winner of the Chopin Competition in Israel and the George Enescu International Competition in Bucharest. He has appeared with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Zubin Mehta, and has collaborated with other conductors such as Semion Bychkov, Sergio Commissiona, Gustavo Dudamel, Lukas Foss, Kurt Masur, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Paul Paray, David Robertson, Paul Sacher and David Zinman, among others. His concert tours have taken him to Europe, the United States, Latin America, the Far East and Australia. His first Russian tour, in 1992, included performances in Moscow, St. Petersburg and several other cities.

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