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Artistic director of the festival “Les Coups de Coeur a Chantilly”
The Israeli pianist Iddo Bar-Shai studied with Pnina Salzman and Alexis Weissenberg. He has performed on major stages such as the Wigmore Hall, the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, the Paris Philharmonic, the Tokyo Opera City Hall, the Berlin Philharmonic and the Beijing Zhongshan Concert Hall.
Iddo played under the direction of Christoph Eschenbach, Lawrence Foster, Elihau Inbal, Gabor Takacs-Nagy, Oksana Lyniv, Aldo Ceccato, Ion Marin and Jesus Lopez-Cobos, among others, with important orchestras such as the Gewandhausorchester, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berliner Konzerthausorchester, Les Siecles and the Orchester National de Lille.
He has performed with renowned artists such as Martha Argerich, Maria João Pires, Menahem Pressler, Renaud Capucon, Steven Isserlis, Isabelle Faust, Augustin Dumay, Vilde Frang, Alisa Weilerstein, Matthias Goerne, Anna Prohaska, Veronika Eberle, Magdalena Kozena, Sayaka Shoji, Stefan Dohr and quartets such as Ysaÿe, Ebène, Aviv, Modigliani and The American on string quartet. His interest in other art forms led him, during his artist-in-residency at Les Dominicains de Haute Alsace, to collaborate with shadow artist Philippe Beau on a project, Les Ombres Errantes, featuring the piano works of Francois Couperin, which was highly praised by the French press.
He took part in festivals such as Verbier, Ravinia, La Roque d’Anthéron, Menton, “Progetto Martha Argerich” in Lugano, the “La Folle Journée” festivals in Nantes, Lisbon, Tokyo, Warsaw, Bilbao and Rio de Janeiro, “La Grange de Meslay”, the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival in Berlin and Jerusalem, the Ludwigsburg Castle Festival and the Radio France Music Festival in Montpellier and his Concerts were broadcast by Mezzo, Arte, Medici TV and NHK TV channels, among others.
He is the founder and artistic director of the “Les Coups de Coeur a Chantilly” festival, which opened in spring 2021, with renowned artists such as Martha Argerich (with concerts for her 80th birthday), Maxim Vengerov, Mischa Maisky, Evgeny Kissin, Gidon Kremer, Steven Isserlis and Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, to name just a few.
His recordings for the Mirare label with music by Haydn, Chopin and Francois Couperin received numerous awards and praise from the international press; Among other things, it was described by “Le Monde de La Musique” as “one of Haydn’s best piano works ever” and by “Classique-News” as “a great achievement that confirms a new great talent of the contemporary piano.”