Background
Yair Samet attended the Rubin Academy High School of Music and Arts where he studied piano, bassoon, and composition. As a teenager, Mr. Samet performed frequently as soloist and chamber musician throughout Israel and for Israeli National Television.
Yair Samet was the recipient of three scholarships from the America Israel Cultural Foundation. He began his formal orchestral conducting and musicology studies at Tel-Aviv University. He made his professional conducting debut in his early twenties with the Rishon Le-Zion Orchestra as a participant in Israel's International Course for Conductors under the direction of Maestro Noam Sheriff.
Having earned a national reputation as a gifted young conductor and musician, the Young Israel Philharmonic, a wing of the famed Israel Philharmonic, created the position of assistant conductor for him in 1989. This unique distinction allowed him to view closely the work of conductors such as Leonard Bernstein, Zubin Mehta, Kurt Masur and Claudio Abbado.
Mr. Samet completed his graduate studies in conducting and composition in the United States at where he conducted the Indiana University String Orchestra and gave concerts with each of the University’s five orchestras.
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