Dr. Anna Arazi is a Boston-based Israeli classical pianist and passionate performer of contemporary music. During the 2018-19 season she played more than a dozen premiers of solo and chamber works by American, Israeli and British composers, including Talia Amar, Ketty Nez and Angela Slater. Anna advocates for ergonomically scaled piano keyboards (ESPK), and is the first ever win a prize in an international competition performing on ESPK (Dallas International Piano Competition 2015). In addition to her performing and teaching schedules, Anna is a dedicated music researcher: her work on Israeli composer and pianist Verdina Shlonsky brought her undeservedly forgotten music to the spotlight, leading to dozens of festival and concert performances across the globe.
A graduate of the famous Russian special music education system, Anna received her doctoral degree from Boston University in 2015, and her bachelor's and master’s degrees from the Jerusalem Academy of Music in Israel, studying with Boaz Sharon and Asaf Zohar. Anna serves on a leadership committee of Women in Music - a non-profit organization dedicated to promote, empower, support and advance women in the music industry. Anna is the current president of the Massachusetts Chapter of the World Piano Teachers Association. She performed with the Sinfonietta Beer-Sheba and Boston University Symphony orchestras, and recently had her Carnegie Hall debut.