Pianist Orli Shaham has appeared with top orchestras in many countries and has been active as a broadcaster. She has performed and recorded with her brother, violinist Gil Shaham.
Shaham was born in Jerusalem, Israel, on November 5, 1975. Her parents were Israeli scientists who had moved to the U.S., where Gil had been born four years earlier. Orli's childhood was divided between stints in Israel and the U.S. At age five, she received a scholarship from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation to study at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem. At seven, she began studies with...