伊斯列拉·玛格丽特 Israela Margalit

Israela Margalit is a concert pianist, recording artist, playwright and television writer.Margalit was born in Haifa, Israel.She studied piano and began performing in Israel at age thirteen. She studied at conservatories in Tel Aviv, Paris and Munich before performing with fifty major orchestras worldwide.She became aconcert pianist and performed for 50 major orchestras around the world, conducted by Lorin Maazel. A New York Times music critic gave a mixed review of her performance at Alice Tully Hall, writing that "while Miss Margalit's cultured pianism was never less than correct and well mannered, she politely declined to turn these pieces into the sort of powerfully compelling individual conceptions these composers obviously intended them to be." She toured widely, playing in the Americas, Europe and Asia. She played with numerous orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the American Big Five, the Israel Philharmonics, the The London Symphony, and the London Philharmonic. She recorded for EMI, Universal Classics and Jazz, Black Box, Chandos, Resonance, Decca and Koch International. Margalit married Israeli pianist Yahli Wagman in the early 1950's. Later she married Lorin Maazel in 1969 and the couple had two children. During this time, she stopped performing concert recitals and she studied at Case Western University in Cleveland, Ohio. Her third marriage was to legendary soap opera executive producer Paul Rauch. Rauch died in 2012.Margalit's children are Ilann Maazel, an award-winning civil rights lawyer and a pianist, and Fiona Maazel, an award-winning novelist and creative writing professor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israela_Margalit