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48 POULENC ∙ STRAVINSKY ∙ PROKOFIEV Itamar Golan Itamar Golan was born in Vilnius, Lithuania, and emigrated at an early age to Israel, where he began studying the piano under Lara Vodovoz and Emmanuel Krasovsky. The young musician gave his first recitals at the age of seven. From 1985 to 1989, he continued his training at the New England Conservatory in Boston (with Leonard Shure, Patricia Zander and Chaim Taug), benefiting on several occasions from a scholarship from the American-Israeli Cultural Foundation. Having chosen to devote himself almost exclusively to chamber music, he has performed with such leading artists as Barbara Hendricks, Maxim Vengerov, Tabea Zimmermann and Ida Haendel. His current artistic partners include Shlomo Mintz, Kyung-Wha Chung, Sharon Kam, Mischa Maisky and Julian Rachlin. He regularly travels the world with violinist Shlomo Mintz and cellist Matt Haimovitz. A regular guest at major festivals (including Ravinia, Chicago, Tanglewood, Salzburg, Edinburgh, Besançon, Ludwigsburg and Lucerne), he has also appeared as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic and the Berlin Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta. A former faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music (1991-94), Itamar Golan has been a professor at the Paris Conservatoire since 1994 and divides his time between teaching chamber music, concert tours and other artistic interests, such as poetry.