{"id":21179,"date":"2025-10-16T11:43:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T09:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.israel-opera.co.il\/cast\/rub-irit-pianist\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T13:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:01:07","slug":"rub-irit-pianist","status":"publish","type":"cast","link":"https:\/\/www.israel-opera.co.il\/en\/cast\/rub-irit-pianist\/","title":{"rendered":"Rub Irit, pianist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><STRONG>Irit Rub<\/STRONG>, pianist, was born in Israel. She studied in Vienna and graduated from the Tel Aviv Music Academy where her teacher was Arie Vardi. She performs in recitals, chamber music concerts and as a soloist with many orchestras in Israel and abroad including with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta. She founded the Tel Aviv Duo with pianist Ariel Cohen and together they performed in many concerts including in the world premiere performances of Leonard Bernstein\u2019s Arias and Barcarolles. She has six CDs to her credit including two with flutist Yossi Arnheim with whom she performed in many concert tours in Europe and the Far East. Since 2006 she performs with the musician\/singer David Sebba in the program Mad About Opera. Aside of her concert work she is the director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra\u2019s education program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irit Rub, pianist, was born in Israel. She studied in Vienna and graduated from the Tel Aviv Music Academy where her teacher was Arie Vardi. She performs in recitals, chamber music concerts and as a soloist with many orchestras in Israel and abroad including with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta. 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