Israela Margalit

Israela Margalit (Hebrew: ישראלה מרגלית) is an American concert pianist,^[6] recording artist,^[5] playwright and television writer.^[6]

Israela Margalit
Native name	ישראלה מרגלית
Born	1944 (age 80–81) Haifa, Mandatory Palestine
Education	Case Western University
Notable works	The Well-Tempered Bach[1]
Notable awards	Emmy nomination[1][2] Honorary Mention Best Play[1][2] NY Film & TV festival gold medal[2] NEA Media Awards[2] British Music Industry award, Best CD (Korngold) [2]
Spouse	Yahli Wagman (1950s-19??) Lorin Maazel[3] (1969-19??) Paul Rauch[4] (19??-2012; his death)
Children	Ilann Maazel[5] Fiona Maazel

Career

Musical career

Israela Margalit is a concert pianist and recording artist, a playwright, screenwriter, TV writer and author. Her plays have been produced in New York, Moscow, Los Angeles and Hungary. Her TV specials have been shown on PBS, ZDF, ARD and in more than twenty countries.

She has appeared as a soloist of many of the world's leading orchestras including the Berlin, Munich, London, and Israel Philharmonics and the American Big Five.

Personal life

Israela Margalit is a mother of two from her marriage to conductor Lorin Maazel: Ilann Margalit Maazel, a civil rights lawyer, pianist and composer, and Fiona Maazel, a novelist. She studied music in Tel-Aviv, Paris and Munich. While she was taking a few years' sabbatical from performing to care for her small children, she studied philosophy, political science and literature at Case Western Reserve. She is a recipient of an Honorary Doctorate for Humane Letters from Lake Erie College. She speaks Hebrew, English, French and German, and writes in English. She was born in Israel in 1944, and lives in New York.