Gadi Lehavi

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The Gadi Lehavi Trio (with Tal Mashich, double bass and Shachar Elnatan, drums) at the INNtöne Jazzfestival , Austria 2016

Gadi Lehavi (born April 29, 1996 ) is an Israeli jazz pianist .

Lehavi, who is considered a musical prodigy , attended the Rimon School for Jazz & Contemporary Music in Israel at the age of eleven, where he had lessons with Rami Levin and Avi Adrian; He also studied classical piano with Michal Tal and Jonathan Zack at the Buchmann-Mehta Music School. In 2008 he performed in Eilat at the Red Sea Jazz Festival . The following year he completed the summer program at Berklee College of Music in Boston; on a subsequent stay in New York, he was invited by Ravi Coltrane to appear at the Village Vanguard and Birdland . At the age of 13 he played the Standard Autumn Leaves live with Dave Liebman in The Hague . In the following years Lehavi a. a. at international jazz festivals such as the Kaunas Jazz Festival and the Kaliningrad City Jazz Festival . He has performed with Chick Corea , Bobby McFerrin , Ron Carter , Phil Wilson , Kurt Rosenwinkel and Eddie Gomez . In 2012 he played in the trio of saxophonist Eli Degibri , on whose album Twelve he participated.

Lehavi's playing is influenced by Keith Jarrett , Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock .

Discographic notes

  • Eli Degibri: Cliff Hangin ' (2015)
  • Shachar Elnatan: One World (Razdaz Recordz, 2016)
  • Or Bareket: OB1 ( Fresh Sound New Talent , 2017)

Web links

Commons : Gadi Lehavi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

http://www.gadilehavi.com/

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Piano child prodigy of jazz in music culture
  2. ↑ http://wfuv.donyc.com/event/2013/09/03/gadi-lehavi-trio
  3. ↑ Ben Ratliff : Concert Report (2013) in The New York Times
personal data
SURNAME Lehavi, Gadi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1996