| Israela Margalit | |
| Native Name Lang: | Hebrew |
| Birth Place: | Haifa, Mandatory Palestine |
| Education: | Case Western University |
| Notableworks: | The Well-Tempered Bach[1] |
| Spouse: | Yahli Wagman (1950s-19??) Lorin Maazel[2] (1969-19??) Paul Rauch[3] (19??-2012; his death) |
| Children: | Ilann Maazel[4] Fiona Maazel |
| Awards: | Emmy nomination[5] Honorary Mention Best Play NY Film & TV festival gold medal NEA Media Awards British Music Industry award, Best CD (Korngold) |
Israela Margalit is an American concert pianist, recording artist,[4] playwright and television writer.[6]
Israela Margalit is a concert pianist and recording artist, a playwright, screenwriter, TV writer and author. Her plays have been produced in New York, Moscow, Los Angeles and Hungary. Her TV specials have been shown on PBS, ZDF, ARD and in more than twenty countries.
She has appeared as a soloist of many of the world's leading orchestras including the Berlin, Munich, London, and Israel Philharmonics and the American Big Five.
Israela Margalit is a mother of two from her marriage to conductor Lorin Maazel: Ilann Margalit Maazel, a civil rights lawyer, pianist and composer, and Fiona Maazel, a novelist. She studied music in Tel-Aviv, Paris and Munich. While she was taking a few years' sabbatical from performing to care for her small children, she studied philosophy, political science and literature at Case Western Reserve. She is a recipient of an Honorary Doctorate for Humane Letters from Lake Erie College. She speaks Hebrew, English, French and German, and writes in English. She was born in Palestine in 1944, and lives in New York.