Bio

Adi Ivgi is a violinist, baroque violinist, arranger, conductor and composer, he has been personally invited to play the Schumann Piano Quintet with Violinist Maxim Vengerov in ICM Chamber Music Center, as well as Violinist Christian Tetzlaff at the Swiss International Music Academy, where he was selected by Maestro Tetzlaff himself to perform alongside him, and with The Austrian based Simply Quartet. Adi is the first prize winner of TARF International Early Music Competition 2025.

Adi’s praise has been recorded in writing by international baroque virtuoso Prof. Kati Debretzeni, one of the finest period specialist violinist in the world, as well as a dear mentor, praising Adi as: 

“an excellent violinist who has very Good command of his instrument, but beyond that - possesses an uncommon affinity with style, Harmony, counterpoint and general musicianship, Which in many years of teaching I have never seen in someone so young.”

Among his many solo and chamber masterclasses and performances, Adi has worked with and under artists such as Maxim Vengerov, Christian Tetzlaff, Vadim Gluzman, Menahem Pressler, Corina Belcea, Miriam Fried, Guy Braunstein, Sayaka Shoji, David Kim, Sergey Malov, Grigory Kalinovsky, Alexandra Conunova, Barbara Doll and Chaim Taub.

Adi has won the first prize in the BMSM Chamber Music Competition 2024 playing the Ravel Trio, he is a member of BMSM Quartet in residence, the Gertler String Quartet. He has played in Carnegie Hall as part of the Galilee Chamber Orchestra and has served as Concertmaster and section leader in the Buchmann Mehta Symphony Orchestra under the Baton of Maestri Zubin Mehta and Lahav Shani in Goethe University's 110 Anniversary in Frankfurt, Germany tour, the 2025 IPO BMSM Gala and numerous other orchestral projects. Adi is also an avid interpreter of historically informed music and has been studying baroque with Maestra Kati Debrezeni, he is the first Israeli to play chamber music on A Graf Fortepiano in Israel.

Adi is a been a recipient from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation since 2019-2025. He has won a number of competitions, including scholarships from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation (with distinction), the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Scholarship after Dalia Maroz, the Israeli Conservatory of Music Competition, the Leah Porat-Gur Prize Competition and the Sarney Foundation Competition. Adi has been a Ronen Foundation recipient since 2021, and has also been an active participant in the Musethica Chamber Music Program since 2022.  

As a composer and arranger, Adi has been commissioned in 2025 by the IMI to write a piece for the national KAN11 Radio Festival. His original works and arrangements have been commissioned and performed by most leading ensembles and orchestras in Israel, including the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Israel Camerata, the Tel Aviv Soloists Ensemble, the Israel Chamber Orchestra, the Buchmann-Mehta Symphony Orchestra, the Israeli Chamber Project, the Polyphony Foundation, ‘Keshet Eilon’, and the Israel Conservatory of Music. Adi collaborates regularly with these institutions, as well as with prominent composers and arrangers such as Yonatan Keret and Shimon Cohen. His Cello Sonata is to be premiered in early November 2025 by the winners of the 2025 Aviv Competitions and the Chamber Music Competition of the BMSM. Adi studied composition with Dr. Marina Geller, Mr. Udi Perlman, and Mr. Shimon Cohen, and is actively engaged in composition, arrangement, and orchestration. His works have been featured in the America-Israel Cultural Foundation competitions, the Paul Ben-Haim Competition, and in public recitals throughout Israel. Adi is scheduled to take part in the “Beating Heart” contemporary concert series for the 2025–2026 season. 

Born in Be'er Sheva, Israel 2002. Adi began studying violin and composition at the age of 5 at the Conservatory of Music in Be'er Sheva with the support of the Edna & Albert Sarney scholarship award. After graduating from the Israeli Conservatory of Music in Tel Aviv and starting his studies with Prof. Hagai Shaham at the Buchmann - Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University,  he's currently finishing his violin performance degree in the class of Dr. Guy Figer. As well as studying Baroque Violin with Prof. Kati Debretzeni.

Adi has played practicums in the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, he has graduated all the major excellence programs of the Jerusalem Music Center. including the Young Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the David Goldman Program for Outstanding Young Musicians, and the Huberman Soloist Project. He has led the Buchmann-Mehta Symphony Orchestra as concertmaster under the baton of conductor Ilan Volkov. Adi has performed as a soloist with a number of Israel's most prominent orchestras, such as the Israel Camerata, the Israel Sinfonietta in Be'er Sheva and the Tel Aviv Soloists. He also has extensive experience in orchestral playing in various orchestras such as the Israel Philharmonic and the Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra.

Adi plays on a Carl Becker Violin (Z33 Chicago, 1949) generously loaned to him from the Zisapel Violin collection, as well as a Maussiell Baroque Violin (L. Maussiell, Nuremberg 1752) lent to him by Kati Debretzeni.

Adi's relationship with music strives to be both extremely literal and deeply personal - rooted in a serious and curious reading of the score, and in the belief that music is on the one hand - historically informed in ANY style of performance, and on the other - inseparable from who we are as people. 

Adi currently resides in Tel-Aviv, his favorite TV show is most certainly "Heartstopper", he enjoys making various types of soups and spending quality time with his friends and his dear partner.