Itamar Golan

Itamar Golan (; born 3 August 1970) is an Israeli pianist.

Born in Vilnius, Lithuania, Golan emigrated to Israel with his parents at the age of one. He studied piano with Lara Vodovoz and Emmanuel Krazovsky and gave his first recital at the age of seven.

Education From 1985 to 1989, a scholarship from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation allowed Golan to continue his training in the United States at the New England Conservatory in Boston with Leonard Shure and Patricia Zander. He later studied chamber music with Chaim Taub. Barbara Hendricks, Maxim Vengerov, Shlomo Mintz, Mischa Maisky, Matt Haimovitz, Tabea Zimmermann, Ida Haendel, Julian Rachlin, and María Dueñas. Golan has performed in concert halls and festivals in or at Ravinia, Chicago, Tanglewood, Salzburg, Edinburgh, Verbier and Lucerne. He has also performed as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and with the Berlin Philharmonic under the direction of Zubin Mehta.

From 1991 to 1994, Golan taught at the Manhattan School of Music in New York and is currently professor of chamber music at the Paris Conservatory.