Bio

Adi Ivgi is a violinist, baroque violinist, arranger, conductor, and composer. He was personally invited to perform Schumann’s Piano Quintet with violinist Maxim Vengerov at the ICM Chamber Music Center, and to perform alongside violinist Christian Tetzlaff at the Swiss International Music Academy (SIMA), where he was selected by Tetzlaff himself. He has also performed with the Austrian-based Simply Quartet. Adi is the First Prize winner of the TARF International Early Music Competition and the BMSM Strings Competition 2026.

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’s praise has been recorded in writing by international baroque virtuoso Ms. Kati Debretzeni, one of the finest period specialist violinist in the world, 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, Ilya Gringolts, Guy Braunstein, Sergey Malov, David Kim, Barbara Doll, Nora Chastain, Grigory Kalinovsky, Alexandra Conunova, Sayaka Shoji and Chaim Taub.

Adi has been accepted to study his master's degree at the Zurich University of The Arts (ZHdK), the Conservatorium van Amsterdam (CvA), the Basel Hochschule fur Musik and the Royal Conservatoire of Hague. He has won the first prize in the BMSM Chamber Music Competition 2024, 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 Vasili Petrenko, 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 has 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 and performed by leading musicians and institutions, including Kati Debretzeni, the Israeli Music Institute, and the Kol HaMusica Festival in the Upper Galilee. His original works and arrangements have been featured in the America-Israel Cultural Foundation competitions, the Paul Ben-Haim Competition, and in public recitals throughout Israel. His Cello Sonata was premiered in November 2025 by the winners of the Aviv Competitions and the Chamber Music Competition of the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music. Adi is scheduled to take part in the “Beating Heart” contemporary concert series for the 2025-2026 season.

Adi studied composition with Dr. Marina Geller and Dr. Udi Perlman, and furthered his studies with Prof. Ruben Seroussi, Prof. Josef Bardanashvili, and Dr. Eliav Kohl. He is actively engaged in composition, orchestration, and arrangement, and promotes the performance and creation of contemporary and Israeli music across various stages. As an arranger, his works have been 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 in Tel Aviv. During his studies in TAU he was head coordinator of the Contemporary Music and Student Compositions Workshop at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music.

As a conductor, Adi champions projects from their initial concept through to performance with a strong sense of responsibility, clarity, and artistic direction. His work spans a wide and unconventional range of repertoire - from baroque music through major symphonic works such as Mahler and Bloch, to contemporary music, Israeli works and songs, and cross-genre projects such as a large-scale production of The Beatles, arranged by him. He is also engaged in ambitious creative undertakings, including the completion and upcoming premiere of a completion of the K. 626 Requiem in D minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Adi develops and curates programs that bring together diverse musical languages into coherent and meaningful experiences. His conducting is defined by a high level of energy, commitment, and attention to both musical detail and the human dynamics within an ensemble.

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 Franz Geissenhof Violin (z-129, Austria 1803) 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.

He is also the proud player of the “Ex-Brustiger” violin, played in The Auschwitz-Birkenau death orchestras (Lagerkapellen) by Holocaust survivor Leon Brustiger  First repair 1735. Generously lent by the Geyer Family.

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.