“…he is a big talent, a brilliant pianist, a very dedicated and sensitive musician…I highly recommend him to your attention.” (Martha Argerich)
The 25-year-old Israeli pianist Ido Zeev has recently been catapulted to the international scene after winning the Third Prize of the renowned Vigo International Piano Competition where the president of the jury was the legendary pianist, Martha Argerich. In the same competition, Ido scooped two other prizes, including the Audience Award.
In recent seasons, Ido has appeared in some of the greatest international festivals, including The Oxford Music Festival, The Luzern Festival and Allgemeine Musikgesellschaft (Basel). In addition to winning first prizes at major competitions in his country and in Spain, Ido Zeev has recently won the Third Prize at the San-Remo International Piano Competition (2022). He is a finalist of the Vendome Prize (2024) in New York and a laureate of the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Novosibirsk.
Ido has worked with some of the world’s most esteemed musicians, including Nikolai Lugansky, Martha Argerich, Evgeny Kissin, Christoph Eschenbach, Menahem Pressler, Boris Berezovsky, and Michel Béroff. He has appeared as soloist with many orchestras, including the Algarve Symphony Orchestra, the Sanremo Symphony Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Haifa Symphony Orchestra and more.
Born in 1998, he began his piano studies in the class of Mrs. Ganit Polin at the Givatayim Conservatory and since 2016 Ido has received advanced training under the well-known Professor Arie Vardi at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel-Aviv.