Rami Bar-Niv (; born December 1, 1945) is an Israeli pianist, composer and author.

Life and career

Bar-Niv is a graduate of the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv, where he studied piano with Karol Klein and composition with Paul Ben-Haim, Alexander Boskovitch, and

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. He won a grant from the

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in 1966 to continue his studies at

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in the United States, where he studied with Nadia Reisenberg and with the theorist Carl Schachter. During the summer of 1968, Bar-Niv studied with duo pianists Vronsky & Babin. In 1970, William Gunther asked Rami Bar-Niv to replace him in the First Piano Quartet. Bar-Niv has performed in concerts worldwide. In 1974, he performed Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 with the

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, conducted by

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. He presented a series of violin and piano recitals with Shlomo Mintz in Israel, and has performed extensively with various chamber ensembles in Israel and abroad. He was the first Israeli musician to perform in Egypt after the 1979 peace treaty with Israel, and in 1989, received the annual "Best Performer Award" from the Israeli government. Bar-Niv's compositions have been published by the Israel Music Institute, Israel Music Publications, AndreA, and Or-Tav Publication.Israel Music Publications
/ref> In 2012, Bar-Niv published his first book ''The Art of Piano Fingering – Traditional, Advanced, and Innovative''. Tim Page of the

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described Bar-Niv's

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performance of

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's first piano concerto as "flamboyant and effective". He has recorded a number of records for

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and other labels, both as soloist and as a chamber player. One of them is the only piano recording of the complete "Little Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach".

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bar-Niv, Rami 1945 births Living people Israeli classical pianists Jewish classical pianists Israeli composers Israel Prize in music recipients Jewish classical composers Israeli male classical composers Male classical pianists 21st-century classical pianists 21st-century Israeli male musicians