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'''Atar Arad''' ([[Hebrew]]: עתר ארד; born 8 March 1945) is an [[Israeli American]] [[viola|violist]], professor of [[music]], [[essayist]] and [[composer]].
==Biography==
Arad and his brother, architect [[Ron Arad (industrial designer)|Ron Arad]], were born in [[Tel Aviv]], [[Israel]]. Arad began his training on the [[violin]] in Tel Aviv and received an Artist Diploma in 1966 from the Samuel Rubin Israeli Academy of Music. In 1968 he was selected for study at
Having decided to devote himself to the viola in 1971, he entered the [[Carl Flesch International Competition]] in 1972 as a violist, winning the City of London prize (second prize)<ref>{{cite journal |title=Carl Flesch prizewinners |journal=[[The Musical Times]] |year=1972 |volume=113 |pages=887 |doi=10.2307/957399 }}</ref> in his first public appearance with the instrument. Two months later he repeated, winning first prize in the International Viola Competition in [[Geneva]], Switzerland.
Arad has performed
Arad teaches at [[Indiana University (Bloomington)|Indiana University]]'s [[Jacobs School of Music]] in [[Bloomington, Indiana|Bloomington]], and the Steans Institute for Young Artists at the [[Ravinia Festival]] in [[Highland Park, Illinois]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Ravinia Festival |url=http://www.ravinia.org/|accessdate=2008-04-01| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20080317134010/http://www.ravinia.org/| archivedate= 17 March 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref> as well as the [[Domaine Forget]] Music and Dance Academy in [[Quebec]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Domaine Forget |url=http://www.domaineforget.com/en/index.asp |accessdate=2008-04-01 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080220013519/http://www.domaineforget.com/en/index.asp |archivedate=2008-02-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Previously he was professor of viola at the [[Eastman School of Music]] in [[Rochester, New York]]. He has also taught at the [[Shepherd School of Music]] at [[Rice University]] in [[Houston, Texas]], and has been an artist/lecturer at [[Carnegie Mellon University]] in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]]. Prior to 1980 he served on faculties at Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth and the [[Royal Northern College of Music]], [[Manchester, England]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Publicity |url=http://info.music.indiana.edu/sb/page/normal/929.html|accessdate=2008-04-01| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20080405022214/http://info.music.indiana.edu/sb/page/normal/929.html| archivedate= 5 April 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref>
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