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Roglit Ishay

Israeli pianist Roglit Ishay has made an international name for herself as a soloist and chamber musician. In her solo career, she has guested with such major ensembles as the Dresden Philharmonic, the Nationaltheater Orchestra in Mannheim and the Ensemble Oriol, collaborating with eminent conductors like Giuseppe Sinopoli, Herbert Blomstedt, Lothar Zagrosek, Jun Märkl and Ilan Volkov. Together with members of the Cherubini Quartet, the Beaux Arts Trio, the Guarneri Quartet and the Leipzig Quartet, Roglit Ishay has played at the Marlboro Music Festival, the Berlin and Dresden Festivals and the Moritzburg Festival. Her chamber music partners include Peter Bruns, Salome Kammer, Tatiana Mazurenko, Ann-Katrin Naidu, Ariadne Daskalakis and Kai Vogler. Roglit Ishay is a member of the Dresden Piano Trio and the Israel Trio. Both ensembles concertize with great success in Europe and South America. Since 2000, Roglit Ishay has been on the faculty of the Academy of Music in Cologne where she teaches piano and chamber music, and since 2006 she serves as Artistic Director of the ?Musica Mundi? series in the Alte Oper in Frankfurt. She studied piano with Walter Aufhäuser and Richard Goode as well as philosophy at Tel Aviv University.