Violinist and violist Tali Kravitz holds a MM from the Manhattan School of Music where she studied in the Pinchas Zukerman Performance Program, under the guidance of Pinchas Zukerman and Patinka Kopec. She is currently a faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music Pre-college Division and the Thurnauer School of Music. Also served as faculty at the Summit Music Festival as well as a mentor to the Junior String Program of the National Arts Center Young Artists Program in Ottawa, Canada.
Ms. Kravitz is a recipient of number of prizes and awards including first prize in the 5 Town Music & Art Foundation String Competition, Long Island, NY; Winner of the String Orchestra of the Rockies Concerto Competition, in Missoula, Montana; First place at the Joyce Dutka Arts Foundation Instrumental Competition; Winner of the Virtu Foundation Scholarship Competition. She was the recipient of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarships for gifted young musicians.
Festival appearances include The Steans Institute for Young Artists of the Ravinia Festival in Chicago; the Young Artists Program of the National Arts Center Orchestra in Ottawa , Canada ; the Perlman Music Program's chamber music workshop in Shelter Island and the Keshet Eilon violin master-course in Israel .
An active recitalist and chamber musician, Ms. Kravitz performed in such venues as the National Arts Center, Ottawa; the Bennett-Gordon Hall in Chicago; Trinity Church and Interchurch Center, New York City; the Jerusalem Music Center (concerts nationally broadcasted on the Israeli national radio); Felicja Blumental Music Center, Tel Aviv. She collaborated with musicians including Timothy Eddy, Mikhail Kopelman, Daniel Epstein and David Geber.
As an orchestra member, she performed under the baton of such conductors as Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, George Manahan, Pinchas Zukerman, Philippe Entremont and Jean-Claude Casadesus. In the season of 2008-2009 she was invited to join the viola section of the National Arts Center Orchestra in Ottawa, as a participant of their Institute of Orchestral Studies.
Born in Israel, Tali Kravitz began violin lessons at the age of seven. She played in master classes with Itzhak Perlman, Michael Tree, Robert Mann, Donald Weilerstein, Miriam Fried, Ivry Gitlis and Pamela Frank. Among her chamber music coaches are Lawrence Dutton, Andre-Michel Schub, Sylvia Rosenberg, Isidore Cohen and Ruth Laredo.