Matan Porat, born in 1982, in Israel, is a pianist and composer. He earned his master's degree from the Juilliard School in New York City, studying piano under Emanuel Krasovsky, Murray Perahia, and Maria João Pires, and composition with Ruben Seroussi and George Benjamin. Porat began performing at prestigious venues such as the Philharmonie hall in Berlin, Wigmore Hall and Barbican in London, Carnegie Hall in New York, and the Louvre in Paris. He has collaborated with notable musicians including Renaud Capuçon, Sharon Kam, Kim Kashkashian, Emmanuel Pahud, Dorothea Röschmann, and Alisa Weilerstein, as well as orchestras like the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. Porat's compositions have been commissioned by Cuarteto Casals, Andreas Scholl, Maria João Pires, and others. He has released three solo albums for the French label MIRARE: Variations on a theme by Scarlatti (2013), Lux (2018), and Carnaval (2020).
