Tal's huge repertoire expands from Haydn to Ligeti and Berio, along with numerous premieres by israeli composers. She had performed in Carnegie Recital Hall, The Tel Aviv Museum, the Tanglewood festival, Lincoln Center "Focus" Festival, the festival for Israeli Music in KÖLN, the Israel Festival and the Kefar Blum Chamber Music Festival.
Michal Tal was born in Tel Aviv and started her piano lessons when she was five years old. At the age of sixteen she performed as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Since then she had performed with all the leading orchestras in Israel, Europe and the U.S. such as the Virginia and Dallas Symphonies, the Strasbourg Philharmonic, the Munster Symphony and the Dutch Radio Orchestra. She played under the baton of Leonard Slatkin, Eduardo Mata and Luciano Berio. Michal Tal is the prize winner of many competitions such as the first prize at the international competition in Dallas, the Jerusalem Symphony Competition first prize, the America-Israel Cultural Foundation and the ministry of education and culture prize. Recently she is the recipient of the prestigious Rosenblum Prize for the performing arts . Among Tal's discography are "Great Short Masterpieces for piano" (ROMEO ) and "Erwin Schulhoff music for piano solo" (CENTAUR )
Michal Tal studied at The Tel Aviv Academy of music, Indiana University, The Juilliard School and State University of New York in Stony Brook . She studied with Prof. Arie Vardi, Richard Goode, and Gilbert Kalish. Among her coaches were Leon Fleischer, Peter Serkin, Julius Levinne, Janos Starker, James Buswell and Joel Krosnick. She received her PHD at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem under the supervision of Prof. Jehoash Hirshberg. Dr. Michal Tal is on the faculty of the Buchmann-Mehta School of music, and the Givatayim Conservatory, in which she served as a pedagogic director. Dr. Tal was the artisitic director of The Young Piano Course at the Jerusalem Music Center.
