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Israel, 2008
Halleli Smoly, born in Israel, has been playing the piano since she was six years old. She studies at the Kfar Saba Conservatory under the dedicated guidance of her piano teacher, Ms. Adela Umansky. At the age of 11, Halleli was recognized as a gifted young musician by the Israeli Ministry of Education's Program for the Promotion of Gifted and Outstanding Music Students. Since the age of eleven, she has been a scholarship recipient of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation with outstanding awards. She also received excellence scholarships from the Zefonot Culture Foundation to support talented young musicians.
At the age of 14, Halleli was the 1st absolute winner of the Orbetello International Piano Competition, Italy 2023. The jury awarded her the maximum score of 100 out of 100 points. That same year she was also the 1st prize winner at the Pnina Salzman Israel National Piano Competition. In addition, she won 1st prize at the Golden Key Piano Competition (Tel Aviv, Israel) at the age of 7 and at the piano department competitions of the Kfar Saba Conservatory (Kfar Saba, Israel) at the ages of 13 and 15. In the summer of 2023, Halleli was selected to perform Beethoven's Concerto No. 2 as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra as part of the Philharmonic's Key Program.
The concert took place in January 2024 on the stage of the Charles Bronfman Cultural Hall in Tel Aviv to the applause of the audience. Since the age of ten, Halleli has participated in the Jerusalem Music Center (JMC) Outstanding Young Pianists Program, led by the great pianist Maestro Murray Perahia, where she takes part in various musical activities. These include master classes with Maestro Perahia and other leading pianists from around the world, practical and theoretical lessons, intensive courses and performance opportunities, as well as lessons in chamber music playing.
When she was 15 years old, Halleli had the honor of being invited by the JMC to play the Dvořák Quintet for Piano and Strings with the players of the Israel Philharmonic Strings in a live concert in the beautiful JMC Hall. In December 2024, the Stefano Strata Academy of Music in Pisa, Italy awarded Halleli a scholarship for the best performance at the final concert of Professor Yossi Reshef's piano master class for her performance "with melodic clarity and the power of mature feelings" that captivated the jury. In January 2025, Halleli gave a recital on the stage of the Teatro Verdi di Pisa as part of the prize concert awarded to her by the Academy.
Halleli also participated in the master class programs at the Edward Aldwell Institute in Jerusalem and the well-known Tel Hai International Piano Master Classes Festival since the age of 12. Over the years she has participated in master classes with many leading musicians from Israel and around the world, including Maestro Murray Perahia, Victor Rosenbaum, Boris Berman, Gerlinde Otto, Pavlina Dokovska, Massimiliano Ferrati, Ilya Shmukler, Claudius Tanski, Ilya Friedberg, Emanuel Krasovsky, Asaf Zohar, Yossi Reshef and Lea Agmon.