Israela Margalit

Who is Israela Margalit?

Israela Margalit is an award winning, critically acclaimed playwright, television writer, concert pianist, and recording artist.

She has appeared as soloist with many of the world’s greatest orchestras including The Berlin, London, and Israel Philharmonics, and the American Big Five of New York, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, and Philadelphia. In addition she has given many piano recitals and performed in chamber music concerts. She toured extensively in the USA, Europe, Latin and South America, the Middle and the Far East. She’s recorded for Universal, Decca, EMI, Chandos, Koch Int., Telarc and Black Box, including her celebrated CDs of the Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Schumann, and Shostakovich Concertos with The London Symphony, The London Philharmonic, and the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestras, and her editor’s choice, 5-star reviewed chamber music CD series of Twentieth Century British and American Composers, in which she collaborated with the soloists of the London Symphony and the New York Philharmonic Orchestras. Her Korngold CD for EMI received the British Music Industry Award for Best CD.

She wrote television shows that have been shown in more than twenty countries, including a series with Sir Peter Ustinov, and specials for Germany’s ZDF, ARD, Transtel/Deutsche Welle in association with PBS, and Arts & Entertainment. Her television shows got an EMMY Nomination, won the GOLD MEDAL at the NY Film & TV Festival, two NEA Media Awards, and the Long Island Film Festival Certificate of Merit. She wrote a TV bible for a 100-episode series about Pushkin for Russia Channel 1/RWS, and served as story consultant to Columbia Tristar.