IDO AKOV (b.

1993)

Atlantinkatu 5B 97 2, Helsinki, Finland | ikavodo@gmail.com, ido.akov@aalto.fi | +972-50-420-0471

EDUCATION

● Bar-Ilan University Ramat-gan, Israel Music-technology studies, 2016- 2017

● Academy of Music Jerusalem, Israel B.Mus in piano performance, 2011-2015

TRAININGS & SEMINARS

● CEME (Contemporary Encounters Meitar Ensemble) festival: in the composition

classes of Philippe Leroux and Fabian Panisello, 2015
● Tel Hai International Piano Masterclasses: in the piano class of Yuval Admony, 2013
● Music Academy of the West: in the piano class of Jerome Loewenthal, 2012

SCHOLARSHIPS

● “Nigunim” scholarship: Bar-Ilan university, 2017

● President of the Academy scholarship for excellence: Jerusalem Academy of Music
and Dance, 2015
● Younes and Souraya Nazarian scholarship: Jerusalem Academy of Music, 2013-2015
● Tel Hai International Piano Master Classes scholarship: 2013
● America Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship in piano and double bass: 2010-2011
● Scholarship in piano from the Nadia Sternberg Foundation: 2010

AWARDS AND GRANTS

● Israeli Ministry of Culture’s grant: for artists during COVID-19, 2020

● Rabinovich foundation grant: for a commission by the Israel Contemporary Players, 2018
● Kalmi piano competition: 2nd place, Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, 2015
● Young Artists Competition- 3rd place, Solange Jospe prize, subsequent recital in Hong
Kong, 2014
● Dina Turgeman chamber music competition- 2nd place, Jerusalem Academy of Music
and Dance, 2014
● Tel-Hai International Piano Master Classes Israeli work competition- 2nd place, 2012
● “Piano Forever” competition- 1st place, 2010