Ilana Vered (Israel)

Ms. Vered began playing the piano at the age of three and later attended the Paris Conservatory where she studied with the eminent pianist Vlado Perlemuter. Born in Israel, she graduated from the Paris Conservatory at the age of 15 and completed her studies at the Juilliard School in New York City. She made her debut as one of the first winners of the Young Concert Artists International Competition. Heard in recital in virtually all of the music centers of the world, Ms. Vered performed with, among others, the Chicago, San Francisco, London and Japan NHK Symphonies, and the New York, Los Angeles, Royal, Munich and Israel Philharmonics. She has recorded the concertos of Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov, in addition to etudes by Chopin, Moszkowski, Schumann, Liszt and Debussy for the London label.

A regular participant in summer festivals, including Mostly Mozart and Tanglewood, Ms. Vered is also the musical director of the "Piano Fest Perugi," a vibrant new international music festival in which all students play with orchestra and appear in recitals. Also a chamber musician of distinction, she has appeared with, among others, the Tokyo String Quartet and members of the Guarneri Quartet. Competitions Ms. Vered has judged include the YCA-NY, Vendome Prize and Jerusalem Piano Competition. Also a sought-after teacher, she was featured in The Most Wanted Piano Teachers in the USA and conducts regular master classes at institutions like Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh and the University of South Carolina.

Ms. Vered has been a frequent guest on television and radio, including the "Today Show," "Good Morning America" and "The Merv Griffin Show," and has appeared as a guest performer on PBS in the US and BBC in the UK. In collaboration with the noted Swiss movie producer Adrian Marthaler, Ms. Vered has also made a series of unusual feature-length films entitled Looking at Music, telecasted by the BBC and the Arts and Entertainment and Bravo cable networks.

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