“Making music enables me to experience its inner workings. It confronts me with the big questions and mysteries of life that reveal how deeply everything is interconnected.“

• I was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1968. My father comes from Israel, my mother from Ticino. At age 6, I began to play the piano. Until my high school degree I studied with Esther Erkel and won prizes at the Swiss national youth music competitions of Tonhalle and Jecklin.
• As of 1989, I continued my studies in the United States with Leon Pommers at the Mannes College of Music in New York City, where I received a bachelor of music degree along with several awards. In 1993, I continued my studies with pianist Mordecai Shehori. The intense learning process lasted 10 years.
• During my studies I came in contact with the following musicians: Claude Frank, Janos Starker, Richard Goode, Isaac Stern, Yo Yo Ma, Emmanuel Ax, Arthur Balsam, Kurt Masur, Menachem Pressler, Joseph Kalichstein and Edward Aldwell. I performed in master classes and at music festivals, such as the Banff Summer Festival in Canada and the International Music Encounters Festival in Jerusalem.
• Since 2004 I have been living in Zurich, Switzerland. I teach children and grown-ups and play concerts as a soloist and chamber musician.
• I have recorded two CDs with works by Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin and Albéniz.
• Concert highlights include:

1997	playing in the cycle “Best from Abroad” as a soloist with the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra in Florida.
2000	performing with the Amar Quartet at the Zurich Institute of Technology (ETH).
2001	giving my New York Recital Debut in the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.
2003	playing a duo recital with cellist Eleonore Willi in the cycle Neuguet in Wädenswil.
2005	performing as a soloist with the Orchesterverein Zurich.
2007	being invited by the Konzertzirkel Egg to play a solo recital.
2008	playing a recital in Hütteldorf, Vienna.
2010	being invited to play a solo concert in the cycle Sonaare in Aarau.
2012	playing a recital in the Hottingersaal in Zurich.
2014	being invited to play a solo concert in the Kulturrain in Meilen.
2016	playing a recital in the Lyceum Club in Zurich.
2019	playing a recital in the Reformed Church in Kusnacht.
2019	playing a recital in the Reformed Church in Küsnacht.
2022	being invited to play a solo concert in the Siechenhauskapelle in Neuruppin, Germany.

“You played so beautifully, with such gorgeous tone. You shaped every phrase with intelligence and sensitivity. I cannot think of enough superlatives!“

Marjorie Duncalfe