名满天下的世界级钢琴教育家，门下聚集30余个国际钢琴比赛冠军，群星熠熠、桃李芬芳。

他曾与祖宾·梅塔和库特·马祖尔同台，是以色列最优秀的钢琴家之一。

汉诺威音乐学院、鲁宾音乐学院的教授、特拉维夫大学的校长和钢琴系主任，鲁宾斯坦国际大师比赛的艺术顾问和评委主席。

　　阿里·瓦迪先生出生于以色列，是国际上公认的以色列最优秀的钢琴家之一，他15岁开始了艺术生涯。他曾在鲁宾音乐学院学习音乐，同时他还获得了特拉维夫大学的法学学位。他在以色列举行的肖邦国际钢琴比赛中获奖，随后就与以色列爱乐乐团和祖宾·梅塔（Zubin Mehta）同台演出。当他又在布加勒斯特的乔治·艾乃斯库国际钢琴比赛中获奖后，在欧洲举行了许多场音乐会。随后，瓦迪先生在巴塞尔继续师从保罗·包姆加特纳（Paul Baumgartner）学习钢琴，并且向皮埃尔·布莱兹（Pierre Boulez）和卡尔海因兹·斯托克豪森（Karlheinz Stockhausen）学习作曲。

　　阿里·瓦迪先生是世界著名钢琴家、指挥家和教育家。他的保留曲目非常广泛。除他的演奏事业之外，阿里·瓦迪还是汉诺威音乐学院、鲁宾音乐学院的教授、特拉维夫大学的校长和钢琴系主任。他有30多名学生曾在国际比赛中获得第一名。

　　瓦迪先生还在许多国际比赛中担任评委，如北京、克利夫兰、滨松、利兹、米兰、莫斯科、慕尼黑、盐湖城、圣坦德尔、悉尼、东京、维也纳、华沙等等。他还是鲁宾斯坦国际大师比赛的艺术顾问和评委主席。

　　他足迹还遍及了东欧、西欧，美国、拉丁美洲、远东、澳大利亚和日本。1992年，他的首次在俄罗斯巡演，随后在莫斯科、圣彼得堡及其它城市举办音乐会。瓦迪先生演奏的作品非常广泛，包括莫扎特、肖邦的协奏曲和独奏作品，还有许多以色列作品，其中的许多作品都是题献给他的。他还在多所世界著名音乐学府开设了大师班和钢琴讲解独奏会，比如茱利亚音乐学院、巴黎国立音乐学院、莫斯科柴可夫斯基音乐学院、英国皇家音乐学院。

　　作为一位钢琴家，他广泛地与许多重要的交响乐团合作演出，合作过的指挥包括谢苗·毕奇科夫（Semyon Bychkov）、塞尔吉·柯密申纳（Sergiu Commissiona）、鲁卡斯·佛斯（Lukas Foss）、库特·马祖尔（Kurt Masur）、捷尔吉·马克西缪克（Jerzy Maksymiuk）、祖宾·梅塔（Zubin Mehta）、保罗·帕瑞（Paul Paray）、保罗·萨赫尔（Paul Sacher）以及大卫·金曼（David Zinman）等。

　　瓦迪先生经常作为独奏兼指挥，已经演奏了全部巴赫和莫扎特的协奏曲。近几年来，他还专攻了印象主义的文学作品，演奏了德彪西和拉威尔的全部作品。

他还定期在以色列电视台录制钢琴教育节目，当地电视观众对他的"大师课"系列，以及他指挥并讲解的以色列爱乐乐团的“家庭系列”非常熟悉与欢迎。他在RCA的唱片赢得国际上的一致好评，并获大奖。

　　2004年，瓦迪先生荣获以色列教育部长奖的终身成就奖。2017年，瓦迪先生获得以色列国家大奖。

Arie Vardi

Beginning his artistic career at the age of fifteen, Israeli born Arie Vardi went on to receive international acclaim as one of the country’s foremost pianists. After winning the Chopin Competition in Israel, he appeared with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra with Zubin Mehta, and upon winning the George Enescu International Competition in Bucharest, he played numerous concerts throughout Europe. Alongside his study of music at the Rubin Academy, he succeeded in achieving a degree in law at Tel Aviv University.

Vardi continued his piano studies in Basel with Paul Baumgartaner and studied composition with Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen. He has performed widely as soloist with major orchestras under the baton of Semion Bychkov, Sergio Commissiona, Lukas Foss, Kurt Masur, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Zubin Mehta, Paul Paray, Paul Sacher, Gustavo Dudamel and David Zinman, among others. His concert tours have taken him to Eastern and Western Europe, the United States, Latin America, the Far East, Australia and Japan. His first Russian tour, in 1992, included performances in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cities. Vardi performs regularly as soloist-conductor, playing the complete set of concerti by Bach and Mozart, part of which he has played on the Hammerfluegel. In recent years he has specialized in the literature of the Impressionist period, including the entire repertoire of Debussy and Ravel. His RCA records have won international acclaim and prizes.

Mr. Vardi’s extensive repertoire includes various Israeli works, many of which were dedicated to him. In addition to his concert career, Arie Vardi is a professor of piano at the Hochschule fuer Musik in Hannover and at the Rubin Academy of Music, Tel Aviv University, where he served as its director and chaired the Piano Faculty. More than 30 of his students have won first prizes in international competitions. Arie Vardi is best known to television viewers for his series “Master Classes”, the family series of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra which he conducts and presents, and currently for his new series “Intermezzo with Arik”.

He has been a invited to serve as jury member in most of the leading international piano competitions, such as Chopin in Warsaw, Leeds, Van Cliburn, Tchaikovsky in Moscow, Sydney, ARD, Beijing, Beethoven in Vienna and Bonn, Cleveland and Hamamatsu, as well as in Milan, Salt Lake City, Santander, Tokyo, and Seoul. He is the Artistic Advisor and Chairman of the Jury of the Arthur Rubinstein International Master Competition.

Mr. Vardi has held Master Classes and presented lecture recitals at the Juilliard School of Music, the Paris Conservatoire, the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, the London Royal Academy, and many other major music centers.

In the 2001 season, Arie Vardi directed, conducted and played a series of five concerts with the Israel Chamber Orchestra. The series, entitled “The Piano Concerto,” featured twelve concertos ranging from Bach to the 21st century. In the 2004-5 season he launched a new weekend series with the Israel Philharmonic, “Morning Intermezzo”, where he serves as conductor and presenter.

Mr. Vardi is the recipient of the Minister of Education Award in 2004 for lifetime achievement and a laureate of Israel Prize 2017.