Gilead Mishory was born in Jerusalem in 1960 and studied at the Rubin Academy there. On the recommendation of Alfred Brendel, he completed his studies with Gerhard Oppitz in Munich and Hans Leygraf at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.
He performs works from all stylistic periods worldwide with prestigious orchestras, renowned chamber music partners, and imaginative solo programs. He places particular emphasis on music of the 20th and 21st centuries.
He was the first to record the complete piano works and chamber music with piano by Leoš Janáček. Further CDs with works by Haydn, Brahms, Schubert, Bartók, Debussy, and his own compositions, as well as numerous radio recordings, have received equally high acclaim. Enthusiastic critics have described him as a “sound magician,” a “technically perfect poet of the piano,” and a “pianist with a sense of sound, charm, and esprit.”
He made his breakthrough as a composer with the cycle “Lider-Togbuch,” based on poems by Sutzkever, which premiered in 1998. His affinity for literature as a source of inspiration is also evident in the “Hebrew Ballads” based on Else Lasker-Schüler, in “Fluchtstücke” based on the novel by Anne Michaels, in the ‘Psalm’ string quartet based on Paul Celan, and in “Di wajte hajmat majne” for tenor and orchestra, based on poems by Marc Chagall. He completed his opera, “Isaak’s Youth,” in 2010. In 2011, a first CD with his works was released by NEOS, followed in 2016 by the CD “An Aeneas.” Some of his works have been published by “Peermusic Classical.” Children in many countries have played his piano pieces from “Mein Opa und ich” (My Grandfather and I) and “Meine Oma und ich” (My Grandmother and I).
In 2000, after two years as a professor at the Detmold-Dortmund University of Music, Gilead Mishory was appointed to the University of Music in Freiburg, where he teaches an outstanding class. He is regularly invited to give master classes all over the world.
Last but not least, over the past three seasons he has appeared around fifty times in Freiburg as an actor in “Souvenir: The True Life of Florence Foster Jenkins.”
