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Neta Rudich is a violinist, activist, and teacher with a passion for music spanning from early Baroque to living composers and improvisation. She feels most at home collaborating with artists and performing chamber music.
Neta has had the pleasure of collaborating and performing with a variety of musicians, including pianist Emile Blondel in a sonatas evening, Ensemble Pi in a program corresponding with Milton Resnick's paintings, and Bread and Puppet Theater, with live improvisation in a production of Aeschylus' 'The Persians'.
In addition to performing, Neta is also an avid violin teacher and she enjoys working with students of all ages, ranging from 5 to 82. She is a faculty member at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music and she also teaches private lessons at her current home in London.
She is deeply committed to human rights activism, particularly for displaced communities, refugees, and the world's disarmament. One of her latest works stems from a combination of music and activism, Blue Freedom Exhale, a piece she wrote for a video by Zehra Dogan.
In her free time, Neta loves travelling the world and pretending to be an anthropologist. She has lived and worked in Israel, Germany, the UK, and NY. She regards Sigatoka, Fiji as her third home.
Neta regularly performs with contemporary music ensembles such as Ensemble Ukho Kiev, Ensemble Meitar Israel, Quartet Lunaire Berlin, and Ensemble Pi NY. She has also held various positions as a concertmaster, including with the Merton College Orchestra Oxford and the Berkeley Sinfonia, and she has played as an associate concertmaster for the Berliner Operngruppe and a member of Neues Kammerorchester Potsdam, Orchestra of Saint John's London, and the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra.
She has been teaching violin for over 15 years in both private lesson settings and at Klangbaum Musicschule Berlin and the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. As an activist, Neta has organised donation concerts for the Gaza war casualties and the Calais Refugee Camp after visiting the camp in 2016.
Neta is a graduate of Mannes School of Music NY, where she studied music performance, as well as HMT Leipzig and Buchmann Mehta School of Music Tel Aviv University. She also studied history and anthropology at the Open University Israel.
In her spare time, Neta enjoys writing children's stories, though she’s her own worst critic. Her greatest inspirations are Nina Simone and Jacqueline du Prés.
