Bar-Niv is a graduate of the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv, where he studied piano with
Karol Klein and composition with
Paul Ben-Haim,
Alexander Boskovitch, and
Ödön Pártos. He won a grant from the
America-Israel Cultural Foundation in 1966 to continue his studies at
Mannes College of Music in the United States, where he studied with
Nadia Reisenberg and with the theorist
Carl Schachter. During the summer of 1968, Bar-Niv studied with duo pianists
Vronsky & Babin. In 1970, William Gunther asked Rami Bar-Niv to replace him in the
First Piano Quartet. Bar-Niv has performed in concerts worldwide. In 1974, he performed Mozart's
Piano Concerto No. 23 with the
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by
Paul Paray. He presented a series of violin and piano recitals with
Shlomo Mintz in Israel, and has performed extensively with various chamber ensembles in Israel and abroad. He was the first Israeli musician to perform in Egypt after the 1979 peace treaty with Israel, and in 1989, received the annual "Best Performer Award" from the Israeli government. Bar-Niv's compositions have been published by the Israel Music Institute, Israel Music Publications, AndreA, and Or-Tav Publication. In 2012, Bar-Niv published his first book
The Art of Piano Fingering – Traditional, Advanced, and Innovative. He has recorded a number of records for
CBS and other labels, both as soloist and as a chamber player. One of them is the only piano recording of the complete "Little Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach". == References ==