Nitai Rach is an award winning young conductor born in 1996. Since 2021 works as Assistant Conductor to Maestro Ruben Gazarian (Armenia – Germany) in the Israel Chamber Orchestra. In 2022 won the 1st prize and Festival Academy Orchetra Prize in the 1st “Wiener Schule” international conducting competition in the Musikverein, Vienna. In 2024 won the 1st prize of the Academy & Competition in Cascais, Portugal with the Orquestra de Camera de Cascais e Oreiras. That same year won a special prize in the 8th Ionel Perlea international conducting competition in Romania – Appointment in the 2024-2025 season of the National Theater of Opera & Ballet “Oleg Danovski” – Romania. In 2023 won the 3rd prize in the 5th BMI International conducting competition in the Romania Athenaeum. In 2022 won the the “Golden Baton” competition in collaboration between Haifa Symphony Orchestra and Buchmann – Mehta School of Music in Tel Aviv University.
Graduated his B.A in Orchestra conducting in the Buchmann Mehta School of Music in Tel-Aviv University in Mr. Yi-An Xu’s Class – August 2021. Recipient of the American- Israel Cultural Foundation conducting scholarship for 2022-2023 and recipient of the Colton Scholarship from the Tel Aviv University 2022 for emerging young talents.
In 2024 Nitai made his debut with the Tirgu Mures State Philharmonic (Romania) together with pianist Daniel Ciobanu (prize winner of Rubinstein competition) with pieces by Gershwin and Bernstein. That same year Nitai conducted the world premiere of the opera “Kind of a Monster”- Music by film composer Ady Cohen and Libretto by international Soprano Shira Patshornik. In 2023 Nitai was invited to conduct the “Lunigiana” international Music Festival’s orchestra after participating in the Florence conducting masterclass and being chosen as a leading participant. In 2022 Nitai recorded music by De Falla, Aranjeuz and more for Ra’anana Symphonette orchestra’s “Color Food” project. That same year Nitai jumped into a project with the ICO after conductor’s cancellation due to Covid with pieces by Ravel, Jolivet, and Debussy.
Nitai gained experience conducting orchestras around the world, amongst them: Tirgu Mures state philharmonic, Bucharest Symphony Orchestra, Athens Philharmonia Orchestra, Universitätsorchester Dresden, Liunigiana International Music Festival Orchestra, “Haydn” symphony orchestra Vienna, Haifa Symphony Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, 21st Century Ensemble, The Israel Chamber Orchestra, Ra’anana symphonette, Be’er Sheva Sinfonietta and more. In the past years Nitai studied under the guidance of Maestro Lahav Shani (Israel-Rotterdam), Maestro PHD Jin Wang (China – Vienna), Maestro György G. Ráth (Italy), Maestro Helmuth Reichel Silva (Germany), Maestro Michalis Economos (Greece) and More.