Born in 1983, Ishay Shaer is one of the leading young Israeli pianists. He has performed in numerous concerts throughout the world and has won both national and international prizes. Among other venues, he has given recitals and concerto performances at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Purcell Room in London and Cheltenham Town Hall, UK; Warsaw Philharmonic Hall, Poland;Sala Sinfonica Pablo Casals in Puerto Rico; Preston Bradley Hall in Chicago in the USA; Teatro Solis, Uruguay. His performances include broadcasts in radio stations in the USA, Scotland, Spain, South Africa and Israel, as well as concerts for the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series, Sociedad Filarmónica de Lima (Peru), Swansea Festival of Music and Arts in the UK, "Semanas Musicales" de Frutillar in Chile, Demetria Festival in Greece (with the New Hellenic Quartet), and "Kol Hamusica in the Upper Galilee" Festival in Israel.

ishay has collaborated as a soloist with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt in Germany and with the major Israeli orchestras. In April 2011 he was called on a two days notice to substitute for Fazil Say with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. This led to six subsequent concerts in the orchestra's subscription series, four of them at Israel's main concert hall, the 2700-seat Mann Auditorium. Nearly six months later he made his debut at the grand hall of the Tonhalle Zurich, performing with Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, under the baton of Maestro Howard Griffith.

In 2006, Mr. Shaer won the first prize in the Newport International Competition in the UK, and a year later was awarded third prize in the "Silvio Bengalli" International Piano Competition in Italy. During 2008 he won three national competitions, among them the prestigious Clairmont prize. In 2009 he was a prizewinner at the International Beethoven Competition in Bonn, and performed with the renowned cellist Mischa Maisky. Consequently, Shaer was invited for performances in Europe, which included a higly praised recital in Germany.

Throughout the years, Mr. Shaer has been supported by prestigious organizations, such as the Swiss Orpheum Foundation and the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. He began piano studies at the age of 7 with Mrs. Hanna Barsilai and later studied with Dr. Asaf Zohar. He has studied in the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music of Tel Aviv University (in cooperation with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra) with Prof. Tomer Lev and thereafter with Prof. Arie Vardi, and finished his Bachelor's degree with distinction. Concurrently, he took part in master-classes with renowned artists, such as Murray Perahia, Matti Raekallio and Pnina Salzman.

Ishay Shaer's upcoming engagements include concerto performances with Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra (as part of Iberoamericana de las Artes Festival) and Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga in spain, as well as solo and chamber music recitals in the UK (reengagement at St. George's Bristol), Chile and Uruguay (with Violinist Sivann Maayani Zelikoff) and Germany (Piano trio at the Kammermusiktage Mettlach). During 2012 he is also expected to record his second CD for the "Somm" label in England, which will be dedicated entirely to Beethoven

Sivann Maayani-Zelikoff has acquired a name for herself as one of Israel's leading young violinists through her many acclaimed performaces as soloist and chamber musician. She holds a BMus and MMus with top honors from the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she won many prestigious awards during a highly distinguished studentship, including the Principal's Prize, which is a bow made by Charles Beare. Her principal teacher there was Lydia Mordkovitch. She also debuted in a solo recital at the Purcell Room of the South Bank Centre in London during her years of study.

In Israel Sivann has performed as soloist with several prominent Israeli orchestras, most notably in revivals of the Ben – Haim violin concerto with the Haifa Symphony Orchestra and the Israeli Camerata, conducted by Noam Sheriff. Sivann also played in many recitals for solo violin, piano duo and with her piano trio 'Animando', of which she is a founder member, in all the major venues in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, and many of these recitals were broadcast live on radio. Her duo partner is pianist Ishay Shaer. She is the first violinist of the "Gropius Ensemble", a group which specializes in creating new artistic genres that draw on different disciplines of art, such as music, theater, and dance.
Sivann won the prize for the best performance of an Israeli work, a solo violin sonata by her uncle Ami Maayani, at the esteemed "Aviv" Competitions 2008. Sivann's recordings include a CD of this work and further music for violin and harp by Maayani (with her mother harpist Ruth Maayani) and a CD of her solo project entitled "The Polyphonic Violin".