American violinist Daniel Ramayeri is the 2019 Burdick-Thorne Gold medalist of the Stulberg International String Competition, where he also received the award for best performance of Bach. He has recently performed the Bruch Concerto with The Baltimore Chamber Symphony, and been heard at the Aspen Music Festival. He is an alum of NPR’s “From the Top.” Pianist Nabeel Hayek, a quarterfinalist at the 2024 Bachauer International Artists Piano Competition, has appeared a soloist with both the Galilee Chamber Orchestra and the Jerusalem Symphony.
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American violinist Daniel Ramayeri is the 2019 Burdick-Thorne Gold medalist of the Stulberg International String Competition, where he also received the award for best performance of Bach.
Highlights of his recent solo engagements include performances of Bruch Concerto with The Baltimore Chamber Symphony, The Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, and The York Symphony Orchestra. Daniel was selected to perform solo Bach with the Juilliard 2023 Spring Dances and won the 2023 Salon de Virtuosi career grant. He is a featured artist with the French Consulate in New York City and has performed on the stages of Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully at Lincoln Center, Summer Stage, Miller Auditorium, Kosciuszko Foundation, Harris Concert Hall at the Aspen Music Festival, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
A dedicated chamber musician, Daniel has performed in multiple chamber showcases with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and his pre-college chamber group won the Manhattan School of Music chamber competition. Daniel was selected for the Wu Han/David Finckel chamber program at the Aspen Music Festival, the Heifetz International Music Institute, The Young Artists Program in Ottawa, Keshet Eilon Music Center, Music Academy of the West, and Greenwood Chamber Music Camp in Massachusetts.
Of French-Iranian heritage Daniel was born and raised in New York City, where he attended Hunter College Elementary and High School and the Manhattan School of Music pre-college program. An alum of NPR’s From The Top, Daniel won the NYYS concerto competition and soloed with The Manhattan School of Music Philharmonic. He holds a Bachelor's degree in violin performance from The Juilliard School where he is currently pursuing a Masters with Catherine Cho and Li Lin. His previous teachers include Patinka Kopec, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Si- Jing Huang, and Paul Biss.
Nabeel Hayek, born in 2001 in Nazareth, Israel holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, Tel Aviv University, where he studied under Profs. Arie Vardi and Asaf Zohar. He is currently pursuing his Master of Music degree at The Juilliard School in the class of Prof. Julian Martin. Additionally, Nabeel has been receiving mentorship from Maestro Murray Perahia at the Jerusalem Music Centre since 2017.
Nabeel's outstanding talent has been recognized through numerous prizes in national piano competitions, such as the Kan Voice of Music Young Artist Piano Competition (2017), which led to his debut recital in Hong Kong, Piano Forever Ashdod Piano Competition (2017 and 2020), Maurice M. Clairmont Piano Competition (2020), Tel Hai International Piano Masterclasses Concerto Competition (2018), and the Arianna Katcz Piano Competition at The Buchmann-mehta School of Music (2022). He is also a laureate of foundations such as America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Zefunot Tarbut, Polyphony Foundation, and the Lieven Piano Foundation in Vienna.
Nabeel regularly performs recitals broadcasted on Kan Voice of Music, the Israeli classical music radio station. He has performed twice for the Arthur Rubinstein International Music Society and has represented the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in recitals in the USA. Nabeel has had the privilege of performing with renowned orchestras in Israel, including the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Israel Symphony Orchestra – Rishon Lezion, and Galilee Chamber Orchestra, under the batons of Uri Segal, Yoni Farhi, Yaron Gottfried, Stanley Sperber, and Saleem Ashkar.