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YEHUDA INBAR

"An intriguing, deeply intelligent and sensitive pianist."

The Sunday Times

Biography

Yehuda Inbar’s musicianship is rooted in curiosity and reflection. His approach to repertoire is merely driven by a desire to uncover the inner lives of works—at times those that are incomplete, obscure, or at the threshold of silence. Inbar gravitates toward repertoire that evokes questions, and in doing so, he invites his audience to engage in a process of listening that is both intimate and thought provoking. A committed interpreter of contemporary music, his projects and programming evoke resonances and often overlooked threads between the music of the past and the music of today, offering new perspectives on music history as a living continuum. With a particular interest in the first and second Viennese School and the music of Robert Schumann, his dedication to Franz Schubert has led him to interpret not only the complete sonatas and impromptus, but also some of his fragments and unfinished works. This resulted in a further investigation of Schubert’s identity with composers of our time, including Michael Finnissy, Jörg Widmann, Brett Dean, Chaya Czernowin, and others. At his request, Michael Finnissy completed Schubert’s Reliquie Sonata D840, recorded for his debut album with Oehms Classics, along side Schubert's fragment in F sharp minor D571, and Widmann’s Idyll und Abgrund. Inbar integrates modern repertoire organically into his programmes as a natural extension of the same expressive questions found in the classical canon. His new album “Flower We Are” exemplifies this approach by bringing together works of French Baroque composer François Couperin and Hungarian living composers György Kurtág. Juxtaposed and intertwined they reveal unexpected musical and conceptual connections. Alongside performing, he crafts entire musical experiences—concert series, interdisciplinary events, and thematic programmes—reflecting his wide-ranging musical and intellectual interests in poetry, literature and visual arts. These projects often blur the line between performance and thought experiment, offering audiences more than just a concert: an invitation into a world of ideas. Such projects include the series Levinsky 24 in Tel Aviv, Sherriff Centre in London, and more recently as artistic director of Responses Culture Society e.V., a charity organisation which he co-founded in Berlin promoting values democracy, social equality, and peace. Born in Haifa, he spent three years of his childhood in Brazil, before returning with his Family to Israel, starting to play the piano at the age of five with his kindergarten teacher. Ambition for a career in music came at a rather later stage. Interested in natural science, he studied Mathematics at the Technion Institute and the Hebrew University, before focusing solely on his music studies in Tel Aviv and in Jerusalem. He furthered his education at the Royal Academy of Music in London where he studied with Joanna MacGregor CBE, receiving the MacFarren Gold Medal, the Lloyds prize for the best graduation recital, and the Lillian-Davies Prize for a Beethoven Sonata, among other distinctions. During his time in London he was a selected as Kirckman Society Artist, and worked with many leading artists, more closely with Stephen Kovacevich. Currently, Yehuda holds a PhD from the Royal Academy of Music, where his research explores aspects of strangeness in Schubert’s music. His international career spans major festivals such as Beethovenfest in Bonn, Yellow Barn, Due Mondi in Spoleto, Dartington Festival, Israel Festival, Felicja Blumental, Tibor Varga, among others, with performances in leading venues including the Royal Festival Hall, Konzerthaus Berlin, St Martins in the Fields, St John’s Smith Square, Tel Aviv Museum, and more. He has appeared as soloist with orchestras including the Brandenburg Sinfonia (Play-direct), Haifa Symphony, St Johhn’s Chamber Orchestra, Kibbutzim Chamber Orchestra, and the Ashdod Symphony. He played live on BBC Radio, ZDF German TV, Classic FM, and radio Kol Hamusica. As a chamber musician he has collaborated with artists such as Guy Braunstein, Natalie Clein, Timothy Ridout, Zvi Plesser, Michel Dalberto, and others. Besides the concert stage, Inbar is active as an educator and thinker, giving talks and masterclasses at institutions such as Harvard University, Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, Jerusalem Academy of Music, and more.

Schedule

24.8.25

Very Berry Blend

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With raspberry, apple and beetroot

19.6.25

Morning Detox

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With orange, turmeric and ginger

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Discography

Schubert Unfinished, Finnissy, Widmann

Franz Schubert

Klaviersonate D 571 (Unvollendet)

Klaviersonate D 840 Reliquie (Unvollendet)

Michael Finnissy

Vervollständigung von Schuberts D 840 (Ersteinspielung)

Jörg Widmann

Idyll und Abgrund

Sechs Schubert-Reminiszenzen für Klavier

Flower We Are
Couperin & Kurtág

Official release: November 7th 2025

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Press

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Enoch Arden: Intriguing & Fascinating

This year's festival opened with an intriguing and fascinating event: "Enoch Arden," a work for piano and narrator based on poem by Alfred Tennyson

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Enoch Arden

On the Hebrew premiere of Richard Strauss's Melodrama for piano and narrator with Yaron London

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Musik bedeutet Hoffnung

Yehuda Inbar ist Pianist, gibt Wohltätigkeitskonzerte und engagiert sich für Frieden

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Audience & Slitude 

Artist of the month on Interlude, Hong Kong 

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Musizieren für den Frieden

Der Pianist Yehuda Inbar bringt jüdische, muslimische und christliche Künstler zu gemeinsamen Benefizkonzerten auf die Bühne.

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Meet the Artist

An interview on the Crossed Eyed Pianist

Research & Teaching

Yehuda holds a PhD from the Royal Academy of Music, a project on strangeness in Schubert, in collaboration with eminent composers of our time, including Michael Finnissy, Jörg Widmann, Brett Dean, and others. He is interested in the intersection of past and present, composers identity, and the investigation of notation as an idividual language. Yehuda has given lectures and talks at Harvard University, Weißensee Kunsthochschule, he has given masterclasses in China, at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem, and Bet Almusica conservatory in Shefaram. He teachers regularly in his studio in Berlin. 

Responses Culture Society

In 2023 Yehuda founded Responses Culture Society e.V, a registered charity organisation based in Berlin, promoting the interaction between different forms of art, as well as supporting democracy, social justice, and peace. Yehuda strongly believes in the transcultural power of art in all its forms to deliver a message with a positive influence on society. Through various benefit concerts the Society has rasied over 12,000 euros for peace organisations and victims of war. Its other activities include an educational project in Shefaram in Israel, a Shubertiade series at Camaro Haus in Berlin, and an interdisciplinary Kultursalon series. 

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