Arie Vardi
[1] He has appeared with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Zubin Mehta, and has collaborated with other conductors such as Semion Bychkov, Sergio Commissiona, Gustavo Dudamel, Lukas Foss, Kurt Masur, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Paul Paray, David Robertson, Paul Sacher and David Zinman, among others.[clarification needed] Vardi’s students include concert artists Nareh Arghamanyan, Yefim Bronfman, Daniel Gortler, Chi-Ho Han, Martin Helmchen, Claire Huangci, Łukasz Krupiński, Yundi Li, Aleksandra Mikulska, Boris Giltburg, Mateusz Molęda, Francesco Piemontesi, Tomoki Sakata, Lahav Shani, Dmitry Shishkin, Alessandro Taverna, Yeol Eum Son and Beatrice Rana.[8] He has been a Jury member in many major international competitions, namely the Beethoven (Bonn), Beethoven (Vienna), Busoni (Bolzano), China, Chopin (Warsaw), Cleveland (Ohio), Cliburn (Texas), Gina Bachauer (Salt Lake City), Hamamatsu (Japan), Leeds (England), Dino Ciani (Milan), ARD (Munich), Paloma O'Shea in Santander (Spain),[9] Scottish (Glasgow), Shenzhen (China), Shanghai, Sydney, Tchaikovsky (Moscow), Tokyo, Minneapolis and others.[citation needed] Vardi is currently the artistic advisor and chairman of the jury of the Arthur Rubinstein International Master Competition.Vardi teaches at the Hochschule für Musik Hannover, Germany, and at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel Aviv.