Michal Friedländer

Israeli pianist Michal Friedländer made her Carnegie Hall debut at the age of 15 playing a piano trio by invitation of Isaac Stern. Since then her passion for chamber music and accompaniment has become the cornerstone of her diverse career.

An active solo player Friedländer appears regularly with Orchestras in Europe and Israel. Among those are the Jerusalem Symphony, The Israel Chamber Orchestra, the Tel-Aviv Soloists Ensemble, the bayerischen kammerphilharmonie, the Staatskapelle Halle, the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Symphoniker Hamburg and the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra.

Friedländer collaborates regularly with internationally known soloists and has appeared over the years on many famous stages and chamber music festivals such as Aix-en-Provence, Beijing, Sapporo, Ravinia, Jerusalem, Zermatt, Rolandseck, Villa Musica, Hemsing, Kloster Kamp and the International Music Festival Im Biet.

In addition to her performance career, Friedländer is a part of the musical direction of the Festival bauhaus music in Berlin and of the Friedberger Musiksommer chamber music festival.

She is also the founder and director of the association Neuer Musikverein Berlin e. V., an association promoting cultural, intellectual and social cooperation centring around music and its performance. The organization devotes itself in particular to preserving the memory, reviving the heritage and exploring Jewish-German culture in Berlin from the early twentieth century up to the 1930s.

Together with Karl-Heinz Steffens, Friedländer recorded the entire works for clarinet and piano by Brahms. Upcoming recordings featuring works by Paul Hindemith and Stefan Wolpe are scheduled to be released in 2025/26. In the season 2025/26 Friedländer will also perform a rich array of solo, chamber and lieder recitals across Europe, USA and Israel.

Born in Geneva and raised in Israel, Friedländer studied at the Jerusalem (Rubin) Academy of Music & Dance with Professor Benjamin Oren and Professor Ilona Vince-Kraus. Later she completed her Graduate degrees with Patricia Zander at the New England Conservatory in Boston and at the Graduate Center of the City University in New York. Since 2001 she resides in Berlin.