Shalev Ad-El - Harpsichordist / Conductor

Shalev Ad-El was born in Israel in 1968. He graduated from the Royal
Conservatory in 1988. As a soloist he has played with most of the leading orchestras in Israel among all, the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1992 together with some leading Norwegian singers, he founded the Oslo Baroque Soloists which he then conducted in festivals in Prague, Mecklenburg, Festival van Vlanderen in Gent, Brugge festival, Muenster festival, Fasch festival, Dijon, in the Leipziger Gewandhaus, in Israel Festival, in the 92Y of New York and in the Haendel-Festspiele at Halle.

1997-2007 he has been regular guest conductor at the Philharmonic Orchestra of Halle/Saale, Germany.

Ad-El already recorded close to 60 cd's for labels such as Chandos (GB), Denon (Japan), Accent, Eufoda, Passacaglia and Klara (Belgium), Unacorda (Spain), Stradivarius (Italy), CPO, RAM, Ambitus and HR (Germany) and Koch International (US). He is also a regular member of Il Gardellino (B) Stadivarius soloists of the Berlin Philharmonic The Dorian Consort (CH) and the music director of Accademia Daniel (IL).

Ad-El held regular teaching positions at the Dresden Academy for Early Music (Prof. for the harpsichord 92-93), Brno Masaryk University (92-00) and Boston-University (Prof. for the harpsichord 99) and held master classes among all in Moscow conservatory, Tallinn, Rheinsberg castle, Florida State University, Interlocken MI, Bloomington IN, Longy school of music, fukuoka festival, Beijing Academy of music, Instituto superior de la Habana, Conservatorio de Lima, Hong Kong academy of Arts, Conservatorio de La Paz, La universidad Catolica de Buenos Aires and in UNIRIO of Rio de Janeiro.

In 2008 he became the first non-German to receive the prestigious FASCH-AWARD for his life-long contribution to the revival of central-German baroque music.