Yoram Ish-Hurwitz is a Dutch pianist, born in Amsterdam in 1968. He began his studies with Danièle Dechenne and Jan Wijn at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam.
He was the first Dutch pianist to study for two years at the Juilliard School in New York, where he worked with the Hungarian pianist György Sándor. After completing this course, he joined the soloists’ class of the noted piano teacher Karl-Heinz Kämmerling in Hanover and studied with him for a further two years.
In 1988, Ish-Hurwitz won second prize at the Eduard Flipse Piano Competition in Rotterdam. Three years later, an international jury unanimously awarded him the Jacques Vonk Prize.
He has performed frequently in the Netherlands, including many appearances at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw. He has also appeared as a soloist with various orchestras and has given recitals in Norway, Germany, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Ish-Hurwitz has been a Steinway Artist since 2003. From 2010, he has served as artistic director of the annual Oranjewoud Festival in Oranjewoud, his home town in Friesland. He has also worked as a programmer at SPOT Groningen.
His eight solo recordings include works by Franz Schubert, Frédéric Chopin, Modest Mussorgsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Franz Liszt’s complete Années de pèlerinage, and Isaac Albéniz’s Iberia. In 2017, he recorded an album with his niece, the violinist Noa Wildschut.