Professor of violin and chamber music, Head of the Violin Class and previously and for several years Head of the Strings Department and Dean of the Faculty of Performing Arts at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. Previously and for many years Lihay Bendayan held the position of Professor of Violin at the HEMU – the Lausanne University of Music, site of Sion.
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Professor of violin and chamber music, Head of the Violin Class and previously and for several years Head of the Strings Department and Dean of the Faculty of Performing Arts at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. Previously and for many years Lihay Bendayan held the position of Professor of Violin at the HEMU – the Lausanne University of Music, site of Sion.
After starting his violin studies with Michael Gaisler in Israel at the age of 5, at the age of 9 Lihay performed to Isaac Stern who recommended him to the legendary Ilona Feher (the teacher of Shmuel Ashkenazi, Pinchas Zuckerman and Shlomo Mintz), with whom he studied until the age of 13. He later studied with Prof. Yair Kless in Israel, Prof. Rodney Friend in London, Jean-Pierre Wallez in Geneva, Miriam Solovieff in Paris and during several years with the hungarian Virtuoso Tibor Varga in Switzerland.
Actually, Lihay Bendayan is combining with passion his concert's career with an intense pedagogical activity. He is frequently invited to give Master-classes at prestigious universities around Europe and at international master-courses, such as the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Royal Academy of Music KMH in Stockholm, Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, Hamburg and Würzburg Hochschules in Germany, Faculty of Music at the University of Belgrade, Cracow Academy of Music, the London Masterclasses series, the Bavarian Academy of Music in Hammelburg, the Musicalta academy in France and others. In addition, Lihay Bendayan teaches as a Master Teacher at the online iclassical Academy, proposing an interactive Mastering the Violin course on it's platform. His students from around the world are serving in key positions worldwide and are winners of international competitions.
A false note played with conviction - is Interpretation.
