Israela Margalit
| Israela Margalit | |
|---|---|
| Born | Haifa, Israel |
| Education | Case Western University |
| Spouse |
Lorin Maazel Paul Rauch |
| Child(ren) | Ilann Maazel Fiona Maazel |
| Information | |
| Debut works | Night Blooming Jasmine |
| Notable work(s) | The Well-Tempered Bach |
| Awards | Emmy nomination Honorary Mention Best Play NY Film & TV festival gold medal NEA Media Awards British Music Industry award, Best CD (Korngold) |
Israela Margalit is an American concert pianist,recording artist,playwright and television writer.
Margalit was born in Haifa, Israel. She studied piano and began performing in Israel at age thirteen. She studied at conservatories in Tel Aviv, Paris and Munich before performing with fifty major orchestras worldwide. She became a concert pianist and performed for 50 major orchestras around the world, conducted by Lorin Maazel.
A New York Times music critic gave a mixed review of her performance at Alice Tully Hall, writing that "while Miss Margalit's cultured pianism was never less than correct and well mannered, she politely declined to turn these pieces into the sort of powerfully compelling individual conceptions these composers obviously intended them to be." She toured widely, playing in the Americas, Europe and Asia. She played with numerous orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the American Big Five, the Israel Philharmonics, the The London Symphony, and the London Philharmonic. She recorded for EMI, Universal Classics and Jazz, Black Box, Chandos, Resonance, Decca and Koch International.
According to one account, Margalit became a writer by accident, when she spoke to concert audiences about the backstory of the music she had been playing. That morphed into a one-hour television program in Germany about Clara Schumann, which achieved high ratings. She turned to writing plays, often about music and musicians as well as romance. Her play Night Blooming Jasmine focused on ethnic strife in northern Israel. Her 3 O’Clock in Brooklyn looked at romantic issues in modern New York City. In New York City, she was friends with playwright Arthur Miller and his wife. She said:
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