ITAI NAVON

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Recognized for his clarity and interpretative depth, Itai Navon’s performances have been praised for “great clarity, coupled with an almost childlike joy of playing” (General-Anzeiger Bonn), as well as his ability to “effortlessly master the most difficult technical passages and produce impressively diverse sounds” (Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung).
 

Itai Navon has performed at a wide range of international venues, including Wigmore Hall in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Victoria Hall in Geneva, Berlin’s Konzerthaus and Pierre Boulez Saal, Ehrbar Saal in Vienna, Beethovenhaus in Bonn, and deSingel Art Centre in Antwerp. He has also appeared at festivals such as Klavierfestival Ruhr, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Kronberg Festival, Kultursommer Nordhessen, Musikfestspiele Saar, and Into the Open in Germany; Mahler Festival in the Netherlands; Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad and Menuhin Festival in Switzerland; Szent Gellért Fesztivál and Klassz a pARTon in Hungary; Copenhagen Summer Festival in Denmark and Bath Music Festival in the UK.

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As a soloist, Navon has collaborated with leading conductors such as Matthias Pintscher, Yoon Kuk Lee, Yeruham Scharovsky, Avi Ostrowsky, Bar Avni, and Giuseppe Mentuccia, performing with orchestras in Israel and across Europe.
 

A passionate chamber musician, he has collaborated with many leading artists, including Antje Weithaas, Lorenza Borrani, Miklós Perényi, and Gary Hoffman, among others. His participation in Chamber Music Connects the World and the Kronberg Festival has fostered inspiring collaborations across generations.

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In the 2018–19 season, at the invitation of pianist Sir András Schiff, Navon participated in the Building Bridges concert series, presenting solo recitals across Europe. In 2021, he took part in a series of filmed sessions with Daniel Barenboim, working on Beethoven’s piano sonatas and cello sonatas.
 

Navon began his piano studies with Esther Narkiss in Jerusalem and continued with Emanuel Krasovsky at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel Aviv. He took part in the Jerusalem Music Centre’s programs for outstanding young musicians, where he participated in masterclasses with artists such as Murray Perahia, Emanuel Ax, Angela Hewitt and others. He is a graduate of the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin, where he studied from 2018 to 2022 under Sir András Schiff. Since 2022, he has been a member of Kronberg Academy’s Sir András Schiff Performance Programme for Young Pianists, where he works with guest artists including Dénes Várjon, Kirill Gerstein, Alfred Brendel, Richard Goode, and Robert Levin. His studies at Kronberg are supported by the König/Reinhuber patronage and the Szloma-Albam Stiftung.