Michael D. Mizrahi


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Phone
920-832-6628
Campus Address
Music-Drama Center
Room 262
Conservatory of Music
Title
Frank C. Shattuck Professor of Music
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Praised as "intrepid" (Philadelphia Inquirer), "engaging" (Houston Chronicle), and "endlessly fascinating" (WQXR New York), pianist Michael Mizrahi has won acclaim for his compelling performances of a wide-ranging repertoire and his ability to connect with audiences of all ages. He has appeared as concerto soloist, recitalist, chamber musician and teaching artist across the United States and abroad.

Mr. Mizrahi has performed in the world’s leading concert halls including Carnegie Hall, Toyko’s Suntory Hall, the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Jordan Hall and the Gardner Museum in Boston, the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, the Chicago Cultural Center and Houston’s Jones Hall. He has performed as soloist with the Houston Symphony, National Symphony, Haddonfield Symphony, Sioux City Symphony and Prince Georges Philharmonic, among others. He has given solo recitals at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC and has made repeated appearances on the Dame Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago. His chamber music festival appearances include Music@Menlo, Verbier, the Yellow Barn Music Festival and the Steans Institute at the Ravinia Festival. Mr. Mizrahi won First Prize and the Audience Choice Award in the Ima Hogg International Competition, as well as first prizes in the International Bartók-Kabalevsky Competition and the Iowa International Piano Competition. He won third prize in the San Antonio International Piano Competition. Mr. Mizrahi appeared for many years on the active roster of .Ìý

Recognized widely for his commitment to artistic excellence, Michael Mizrahi has won Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ÊÓƵ's , and was recently one of five international recipients of the .

An enthusiastic promoter of music education, Mizrahi has presented lecture-recitals and master classes at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, the University of Redlands, the University of California – San Diego, the American School in Switzerland (TASIS), and the University of Nebraska at Omaha, among many others. As a member of Ìý(²Ô´Ç·ÉÌýEnsemble Connect) and Teaching Artists Collaborative, Mr. Mizrahi spent several years as a teaching artist in New York City public schools.

Dedicated to the music of our time, Mr. Mizrahi has commissioned and given world premieres of several new works by today’s leading composers, including Missy Mazzoli, Judd Greenstein, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Mark Dancigers, and John Luther Adams. He is a founding member of , a chamber group devoted to the commissioning and performing of new music by emerging composers. NOW Ensemble released its seventh album, , to critical acclaim in 2021. Mr. Mizrahi's celebrated albums Ìý²¹²Ô»åÌý,Ìýboth albums of newly commissioned works for solo piano, were released on the New Amsterdam Records label. His popular  have been lauded by Ìý²¹²Ô»åÌýNew Yorker music critic .

Mr. Mizrahi is also an alumni of Carnegie Hall’s , and as such regularly performs with other alumni in chamber ensembles comprised of virtuoso musicians, entrepreneurs, and passionate advocates of the arts. Mizrahi has helped create innovative performances and engaging projects with partners around the world. Drawing from his work with Ensemble Connect, Mizrahi has worked to foster partnerships between Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ÊÓƵ’s Conservatory of Music and the surrounding community, and helped found Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ÊÓƵ’s project that brings classical chamber music to children and populations who ordinarily do not participate.ÌýMr. Mizrahi was a co-director for many years of the prestigious , which in 2023 took place at Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ÊÓƵ, as well as the Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ÊÓƵ Summer Music Institute, a program for advanced high school musicians launched in 2023.

Mr. Mizrahi has edited several new editions published by Hal Leonard, including new editions of piano music by ,Ìý, and .

Michael Mizrahi received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia, where his concentrations were in music, religion and physics. He holds master’s and doctoral degrees from the Yale School of Music, where he studied with Claude Frank. As a member of the Moët Trio, Mr. Mizrahi completed a two-year residency, the only one of its kind for piano trios, at the New England Conservatory.

After his Philadelphia debut recital, the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote that “…the performance had transparency, revealing a forward-moving logic and chord voices you didn’t previously realize were there…textures were sumptuous.â€

He is currently the Frank C. Shattuck Professor of Piano at the Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ÊÓƵ Conservatory of Music in Appleton, Wisconsin. He was interviewed for a Faculty Profile, available .Ìý

Education
BA, 2000, University of Virginia
MM, 2003, Yale School of Music
DMA, 2008, Yale School of Music
AD, 2009, New England Conservatory of Music
Years at Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ÊÓƵ
2009-present