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I am a young pianist and musician living in Jerusalem, Israel. Welcome to my site and enjoy the music. I would be very happy if you sent me e-mail or came to one of my concerts (especially if you're a young pianist or musician yourself).
I have many interests. My main instrument is the piano, but I also study the violin and explore the guitar, drums, and double bass on my own.
I play many pieces from the classical piano repertoire, from Frescobaldi to Ligeti and from Haydn to Hajdu. In jazz, I am interested in just about everything, from bebop and Latin to avant-garde.
I played many classical concerts as a solo pianist or with orchestra or string accompaniment. And I have had several bar dates performing jazz standards, some of my own compositions, and free jazz improvisations.
What I like most is to improvise and compose in different styles, both classical and jazz.

I am a member of the avant-garde group of jazz musicians, the Kadima Collective.

Check out my blog.

The Zfunot Tarbut Foundation generously supports the advance of Ariel's musical studies.

Upcoming concerts and gigs...

I'm on vacation!

My second CD, Origami, has been released

My first CD, 31 Bars, is still available

Some of the latest music video files uploaded to the site:

Loreley by Liszt
Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance No. 1 (arranged by Ariel)
Sonata for piano (by Ariel)
Ornette's Blues (jazz)
Tempset (jazz)
Mozart piano concerto in A (K414) with IBA orchestra
Angels in Hell (from the Gregorian Project)
The Joy of Latin (jazz)
Schubert Impromptu Op. 90 No. 2
Mr. PC (jazz) at jam session
Chopin Etude Op. 25 No. 2
Caravan (jazz)
Prelude and Fugue in C minor from Book II of Bach's WTC
Prelude and Fugue in G major from Book II of Bach's WTC
Fantasy for Violin and Piano (by Ariel)

<H1>About young pianists</H1> What great pianists, musicians, and others might have said or could have said about young pianists but didn't. "I could teach a young pianist everything he needed to know about playing the piano in about 20 minutes." G. Gould "One word to the wise young pianist: clarity." M. Hess "Already as a young pianist, Mozart was more of an aristocrat than his aristocratic patrons." C. Curzon "What is a 'young pianist?' I've known good and bad pianists. But young ones?..." S. Richter "It's all for the sake of music and of young pianists." N. Boulanger "But how many young pianists can play the tuba?" P. Hindemith "The concert was a triumph. All our enemies are vanquished. There are no young pianists to speak of besides Clara." F. Wieck "Wanted 16 young pianists for noise making." G. Antheil "Ludwig van something... I recall a young pianist by that name." J. Haydn "You don't want to know where my career as a young jazz pianist got started." E. Blake "Every child who plays the piano thinks himself a young pianist." C. Saint-Saens "Lipatti is a young pianist sent to us from above." N. Boulanger "I invented jazz and was the first young jazz pianist." J.R. Morton "All young pianists were suspect in my father's eyes, Robert above all." C. Schumann "I've been trying to look inside ever since I was a young jazz pianist." George Russell "Monk is still nuttier than most young jazz pianists." J. Hicks "Too many young pianists and too few young harpsichordists." W. Landowska "No shortage of vituosity in young pianists. What they need more of is time." C. Basie "Mountain climbing is fit preparation for young pianists." A. Webern "I took risks as a young pianist." A. Tatum "I'm the link between old and young pianists." C. Czerny "Bizet was a startling young pianist." F. Liszt "Young pianists are given Mozart to play because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-up pianist avoid Mozart because of the high quality of the notes." A. Schnabel "I was as much a clarinetist and saxophonist as a young jazz pianist." M. Solal "I can't remember what it feels like to be a young jazz pianist." E. Hines "The best young pianists do some of the worst playing." H. von Bulow "Improvisation is the young pianist's proving ground." F. Mendelssohn "I wish young pianists were a bit more sophomoric, like other adolescents." T. Tzara "Bach, Debussy, Ravel, and Stravinsky is what I recommend young jazz musicians." B. Evans "A machine is like a young pianist. It knows nothing, but can learn everything." R. Moog "As a young jazz musician I learned most from comping." R. Garland "The word Mikrocosmos can be interpreted to mean 'the world of the children, of the young pianists.'" B. Bartok "We tend to forget they were once young jazz pianists in need of teachers." L. Tristano "Art Tatum and Teddy Wilson were my models when I was a young jazz pianist." Ray Bryant "I don't write for young pianists." A. Scriabin "Please, send no more young pianists." J. Brahms "When mothers call to show off their young pianists, I tell them to come at 4 o'clock and I leave town at 2." V. Horowitz "I hope to inspire young jazz pianists as other jazz musicians inspired me." H. Silver "I send all young jazz pianists to the opera." J.P. Johnson "Aristocratic, direct, brief, focused, energetic, clear, elegant -- that's all I ask in a young pianist." F. Nietzsche "The world would be a better place if there were more young pianists, violinists, and musicians in it." S. Suzuki "Young jazz pianists need a longer attention span." C. Taylor "Spaces and openness: two things for young jazz pianists to think about." A. Jamal "A young pianist is an overworked prodigy." J. Hofmann "There is spirituality about the face, however, which the typewriter doesn't generate. The lady is a young pianist." A. C. Doyle "I've known great young jazz pianists who dropped out of sight then came back blowking into a horn." D. Gillespie "A young pianist in every home; a Steinway piano in every living room." W. Steinway "Young pianists come and go. Only the music remains." F. Liszt "Young jazz pianists should not forget the French horns, the clarinets, and the tubas." Cl. Thornhill "I did hit a wrong note occasionally when I was a young pianist... Maybe even later." A. Cortot "Speak not to me of young pianists -- or I'll run." I. Albeniz "All youg pianists are my children." C.P.E. Bach "I'll take emotional integrity over fireworks in young jazz pianists." E. Garner "There are many rotten apples among young pianists." F. Schiller "I don't remember being a young jazz pianist; I remember a bunch of teenage gigs." B. Powell "Let a thousand young pianists contend." A. Rubinstein "Let young pianists learn every aspect of modern technique from my Gradus." M. Clementi "Al Haig is the perfect jazz pianist." B. Powell "Would young jazz pianists know when God is in the house?" F. Waller "Young pianists should listen to Horowitz." A. Tatum "Young jazz pianists need to learn to play in every style." M.L. Williams "When I was a young jazz pianist I thought the piano was a percussion instrument." T. Wilson. "Young pianists have difficulties with appoggiaturas." W.A. Mozart "Young pianists should be prohibited by law from listening to Bartok." J. Agate "Every day I run into a young pianist looking for a central key." C. Debussy "Old piano seeks young pianist." L. Bosendorfer "I prepared a piano and a young pianist." J. Cage "Many young pianists today are more deficient in manners and punctuality than in pianistic technique." N. Boulanger "In every little boy or girl there is a young pianist waiting to come out." L. Bernstein "My mother warned me that young jazz pianists have it much easier." R. Barretto "Many young pianists are too concerned with the sounds they make." J. Cage "If I were a joung jazz pianist again, I'd go directly to Copenhagen." D. Jordan "Young pianists are writhing in the clutches of old masters." S. Prokofiev "What does the average young pianist know about the contrabass?" I. Xenakis "Many young pianists find it easier to play their own work than that of the great masters." C.V. Alkan "'The Cat and the Mouse' is for young pianists. But old ones can also listen in." A. Copland "After a while every pianist looks like a young pianist." M. Horszowski "All too often young pianists neclect their gymanstics." E. Satie "There never has been a harder working young pianist than Liszt." C. Czerny "Young pianists should be obligated to listen to Bartok." Z. Kodaly "Chopin preludes are a good warmup for young jazz pianists." Al Haig "The piano, the young pianist, the evanescent sound, the ephemeral beauty..." O. Wilde "A simple, clear fugue is what I have to offer young jazz pianists." John Lewis "Jazz may be dying out, but young jazz pianists are born every day." M. Petrucciani "If Czerny could, any young pianist can." L.v. Beethoven "If you have nothing more to say about young jazz pianists, I have a few things to say." A. Blakey "Some of my best friends are young pianists." I. Paderewski "Young pianists should spend more time in the sun." E. Satie "I could have been Liszt if I had been a more diligent young pianist." V. Borge "There are too many young pianists and not enough young musicians." F. Busoni "I used to be a young pianist, but there were too many interludes." Mae West "Young jazz pianists should sieze the day while they can." Th. Monk "The only thing I had going for me as a young pianist was Clara." R. Schumann "The 'young' in 'young pianist' doesn't always mean 'infant.'" S. Rachmaninoff "Like many bass players, I started out as a young jazz pianist." Ch. Mingus "We are all young jazz pianists at heart." W. Montgomery "Young jazz pianists tend to forget that bebop can also be lyrical and melodic." T. 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