Dalia Ouziel, pianist
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Dalia Ouziel, born in Israel and established in Belgium, studied at the well-known "Rubin Academy" of Tel-Aviv and in Belgium at the Royal Music Conservatories of Mons and Brussels.
Her career has brought her to perform throughout Europe, the USA, Canada, Israel, Africa and Brazil. In Belgium, she has performs with the most important chamber and symphony orchestras and as done so in Radio and Televison concerts as well as abroad.
Coupled with her numerous radio and television recordings she has an impressive record library. To name just a few, she is now in the process of recording, in 4 volumes, the complete variations for piano solo by Beethoven of which volume 1 has already appeared and volume 2 will appear shortly. Added to this are the complete works for 2 pianos and piano 4 hands by Mozart including the 2 Double Concertos, and 2 piano concertos. Recently a live recording with the Amati Ensemble of Mozart concertos KV 488 and 467 has appeared. Her latest CD's are dedicated to Haydn piano sonatas and a live recording of Dvorak Slavonic Dances for piano 4 hands.
A regular guest of international chamber music festvals, Dalia Ouziel has appeared together with artists such as Alexander Dmitriev, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Robert Levin, Mihaela Martin, Frans Helmerson, Olivier Charlier, Matt Haïmovitz, Massimo Quarta, Alexander Rudin, Roland Pôntinen, Robert Cohen, Gil Sharon, Truls Mork, Hagai Shaham as well as with Eugène Fodor, Philippe Hirshhorn, Vadim Repin, the Sharon Quartet and the Amati Ensemble etc.
With the violinist Jerrold Rubenstein, she forms a Duo which has an extensive performing and recording career with a repertoire of more than 100 sonatas and the Piano Duo with her sister Orit Ouziel is equally internationally highly appreciated and demanded.
With the above mentioned artists, Dalia Ouziel has recorded the complete sonatas for violin and piano by Fauré and including his Piano Trio and the 2 Piano Quartets, the complete works of Beethoven for piano 4 hands, numerous violin and piano sonatas by Mozart, Ravel, Mendelssohn, Ives, Copland, Grieg, Brahms, and trios by Mozart, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Brahms and piano duos by Rachmaninoff, Shostakovitch, Lutoslavski, Schubert etc. This was followed by the complete violin and piano sonatas of Brahms with Jerrold Rubenstein, which received an five stars in "Diapason" of France.
Dalia Ouziel has built a solid reputation as a pedagogue and has given Master Classes in Italy, Spain, Brazil, France, England and in the USA. Extraordinary Piano Professor at Queen Elisabeth Chapel of Belgium, Dalia Ouziel is presently Piano Professor at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Mons.
Updated 2005