Israela Margalit

This biographical article needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. (May 2010) Israela Margalit is a concert pianist, recording artist, playwright, and television writer. She has appeared as a soloist with orchestras including the American Big Five of New York, Boston, Cleveland, Philadelphia, and Chicago, the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony, the Concertgebouw, the French National, and the Israel, Tokyo, London and Moscow Philharmonics. She has toured in Europe, USA, Latin and South America, the Middle East and the Far East, both with orchestras and in recital and chamber music concerts. She recorded extensively for EMI, Chandos, Decca, Universal Classics (UCJ), Koch Int., Black box, Telarc, Quartz, and Resonance, and received the British Music Industry Award for Best CD. She has written television specials, including a series with Sir Peter Ustinov, for PBS, Arts&Entertainment, ZDF, ARD, Transtel, Deutsche Welle, and a hundred-episode bible for Russia Channel 1. Awards for her shows include the Gold Medal in the New York Film & Television Festival, two NEA Media Awards, an Emmy nomination, and a Certificate of Merit at the Long Island Film Festival. Her stage plays were premiered in New York and Moscow, where "Trio" is currently in its fifth year on the Russian stage. She received the 14th annual New York Short Play Festival award for Outstanding Play. Her daughter, Fiona Maazel, is a novelist. Her husband, Paul Rauch, is a television and film producer.

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