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 Michal Friedländer appears regularly with Orchestras in Europe and Israel. Among those are the Jerusalem Symphony, The Israeli Chamber Orchestra, The Tel Aviv Soloists, Bruno Maderna Orchestra, the Bayerischen Kammerphilharmonie, the Tübinger Kammerorchester, the Staatskapelle Halle, the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Hamburger Symphoniker and the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra.
Michal 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, Michal Friedländer is a part of the musical direction of the Festival Bauhus 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 Michal 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 2025-6.
In the season 2025-26 Michal Friedländer will perform a rich array of solo, chamber, and lieder recitals across Europe, USA and Israel.
Born in Geneva and raised in Israel Michal Friedländer studied at the Rubin Academy in Jerusalem 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.
Since 2001 she resides in Berlin.