Charleston Academy of Music

Ilana Vered
Ilana Vered now comes before her public as a musician whose art has achieved a rare balance between passion and intellect, temperament and reflection.
          
Ms. Vered, who has repeatedly demonstrated sovereign musical and technical command over some forty-five concertos--from Bach to Berg--has already recorded for the London label highly lauded versions of the concertos of Mozart, Chopin, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, and Rachmaninov. She has committed to disc the complete set of Beethoven's five piano concertos with the Warsaw Philharmonic under the baton of Kazimierz Kord, released in late 1993 by the ProArte label, represent the culmination of Ms. Vered's long association with the Beethoven concertos--works she has always regarded as the cornerstone of the concerto repertoire.

Ms. Vered began playing the piano at the age of three, and later attended the Paris Conservatory where she studied with the eminent pianist Vlado Perlemuter. Born in Israel, She graduated from the Paris Conservatory at fifteen, and completed her studies at the Juilliard School in New York City under the tutorship of Rosina Lhevinne, Nadia Reisenberg, and Aube Tzerko.