Biography
Israeli- American conductor and Musical Director of the Galilee Music Center, Maestra Ada Pelleg, is an inspiring and powerful voice on the Israeli music scene that passionately believes in the power of music as a spiritual vehicle of bringing people of all ethnic groups together.
Throughout her long and acclaimed career, Pelleg has conducted orchestras and choirs in Israel and abroad. Among them are the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Israel Chamber Orchestra, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, the Oregon Bach Festival’s orchestra and Choir , the Israel Opera Chorus , the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, and others.
Pelleg graduated with distinction from the Chicago Music College (B.A.in piano performance). She later attended the Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington (M.A. in composition and theory), from which she graduated with honors.
Ada is the recipient of many awards, prizes and fellowships, including First Prize in the Molly Margolis Piano Competition in Chicago, a conducting fellowship to the Aspen Music Festival a fellowship for the Bach Oregon Festival, a fellowship to master class with conductor Gennady Rhozdestvensky and more.
In addition, the “Israel Association of women in Management” chose Ada Pelleg as “Woman of the year 2006”
