Michal Kalekin-Schmidt, piano

Michal Kalekin-Schmidt, pianist and cellist, is currently on the faculty at Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges and the University of Pennsylvania. She has performed in Canada, England, France, Israel, South Korea, and Sweden as well as in the U.S., and has been a featured artist on WHYY in Philadelphia and Kol Hamusica in Israel. In 2006 and 2008 Michal was one of an international group of cellists on the faculty of the International Cello Festival in Israel.

Michal received her doctorate from Temple University and master's from the University of the Arts. As an undergraduate, she studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she received an Artist Diploma for both piano and cello. In her native Israel, Michal studied at the Tel Aviv University-Rubin Academy of Music. In the U.S., she studied piano with Claude Frank, Peter Serkin, and Raquel Adonaylo, and cello with David Soyer, Lorne Munroe, and Jeffery Solow. She has participated in master classes and chamber music coachings with William Pleeth, Mischa Maisky, Lynn Harrell, Joeseph Gingold, Felix Galimir, and Karen Tuttle.