The Israeli pianist Nadav Katan was born in 1991. He started his piano studies at the Karmiel Conservatory (Israel) in the class of Mrs. Diana Bucur. In 2010, he started his military service under the status of an 'Outstanding musician', during which he pursued his Bachelor degree in piano performance at the Buchman- Mehta school of music, Tel Aviv University, class of Prof. Asaf Zohar. In 2015 Nadav started his Master's studies at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, in the class of Prof. Naum Grubert. During his studies Nadav was awarded numerous scholarships such as AICF scholarship, the Holland scholarship and the 'Talent Grant' from AHK, to name a few. Nadav is a prize winner of piano competitions such as 'competition for soloist Sharon Tabor Pintz', 1st prize (Jerusalem 2010) , the 'Arianne Katz piano competition' 1st prize (Tel Aviv 2015), the 'Piano Forever competition' honorary mention (Ashdod 2017).
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