Professor Eitan Globerson is a member of the faculty of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, where he teaches piano and orchestral conducting. He previously served as Head of the Piano Department and, until recently, as Dean of the Faculty of Performing Arts.
He graduated with highest honors from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, earning both his Bachelor's and Artist Diploma degrees in Piano and Conducting. He subsequently completed his Soloist Diploma studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Hanover, Germany. His piano teachers included Dina Turgeman, Boris Berman, Irina Edelstein, Michael Boguslavsky, Yehali Wagman, and Arie Vardi, while his conducting teachers included Mendi Rodan, Hans Herbert Jöris, and Lutz Köhler.
Professor Globerson has received numerous awards, including the François Shapira Prize (1987) and prizes at international competitions in Italy (Dino Ciani Competition at La Scala, Milan) and South Africa (UNISA Competition, Pretoria). As a pianist, he has appeared as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of South Africa, the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hanover Hochschule Orchestra, and many others. He has also performed in solo recitals and chamber music concerts throughout Western and Eastern Europe, the United States, and the Far East. He has made numerous recordings for Kol HaMusica (The Voice of Music), Israel’s classical music radio station.
As a conductor, he has led many orchestras, including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Jerusalem Camerata, the Israel Chamber Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion, the Young Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Israel Sinfonietta, the Concerto Grosso Orchestra in Frankfurt, the Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra, and the Ra’anana Symphonette, among others. He previously served as Resident Conductor of the Haifa Symphony Orchestra and as Resident Conductor of the Israeli Opera, where he conducted productions of Norma, La Cenerentola, Káťa Kabanová, Andrea Chénier, Peter Grimes, Simon Boccanegra, Madama Butterfly, Attila, Rusalka, and La Fanciulla del West. During the 2004–2005 season, he served as Assistant to the Music Director of the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples. He is currently the Music Director of the Mendi Rodan Symphony Orchestra, which he founded in 2010.
Professor Globerson has been invited as a guest artist and lecturer to numerous universities and musical institutions around the world, including Yale University, Stony Brook University, McGill University (Montreal), the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, the Liszt Academy in Budapest, the University of Chicago, Ohio State University, The Catholic University of America in Washington, Montclair State University, the University of Pennsylvania, the Perugia Music Festival in Italy, and the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel Aviv. During the current academic year, he is serving as a Visiting Professor at Yale University.
Many of his students have won prizes in national and international competitions and regularly perform with leading orchestras and on major concert stages in Israel and abroad.
Alongside his musical career, Professor Globerson is also engaged in scientific research. He holds a Ph.D. in Brain Research from the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar-Ilan University. He currently conducts research at the Magnetoencephalography (MEG) Laboratory at the same institute, at the Songbird Laboratory of New York University, and in other research laboratories. He is frequently invited to present his work at international scientific conferences in Israel and abroad. His scientific articles have been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, and one of his recent studies was featured in an article published by Scientific American.
