Bio

Elisha Abas, Israeli born concert pianist, was the life long student of Pnina Salzman, a student of Alfred Cortot and mentee of Artur Rubinstein. La Roma, National Italian Newspaper, commented on a performance in Naples, Italy saying, “he is the most refined and interesting pianists of our generation…his “playing is the perfect marriage of exuberant musicality restrained with the right dose of rationalism that is rich with colors and shades. His palette shines in all his splendor with a captivating performance of Chopin and Schumann”.

Elisha Abas has been described by many industry luminaries as “one of a kind”. He projects a rare combination of intellect, elegance and pedigree. Likely inherited from his great-great grandfather legendary Russian Composer Alexander Scriabin, his rare interpretations are strongly reminiscent of the pianists of the golden age. Mr. Abas was a child prodigy who started performing at the age of six and has since shared the stage with great artists such as, Isaac Stern, Leonard Bernstein and Zubin Mehta.

Abas has achieved many accolades throughout his career. Those most notable were achieved when he was a was a young prodigy – winning first place in the American-Israel Cultural Foundation music competition for eight consecutive years and first place in the Claremont Piano Competition. In the fall of 2008, Elisha performed his original music in St. Petersburg’s Smonlny Cathedral for the first time.

Elisha Abas has performed throughout the world and most recently in the US, Israel, Italy, China, Russia, Cuba and Germany. In 2009, he recorded the First Piano Concerto of Johannes Brahms in Havana, Cuba with The National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba and Yoel Gamzou. In 2010, he was featured as a soloist in the highly acclaimed and publicized final concert of the Jewish Culture Days in Berlin 2010 (in which the world premiere of the new version of Mahler’s 10th Symphony took place). This sold out concert attracted enormous press and public attention world-wide and resulted in two imminent recording contracts with prominent German labels.