About
Violinist, teacher, and author
Violinist
A dynamic, versatile musician
Eyal Kless, born in Israel, has performed and taught throughout the world, establishing himself as a dynamic and versatile musician. Eyal has performed with artists including John O'Conor, Adrian Brendel, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Gil Shohat, Pnina Zaltsman, and Yair Kless.
Eyal is currently based in Tel Aviv, where he teaches violin and methods of violin teaching at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music (Tel Aviv University). He previously taught at the Royal Northern College of Music, Chetham's School of Music (Manchester, England), and the Royal Irish Academy of Music (Dublin, Ireland).
Eyal is a firm believer in short CV's and great sound.
Ensemble
From the Israel Haydn Quartet to the Kless Trio
Eyal founded The Israel Haydn Quartet, where he was 1st violinist for 13 years. Today he is part of The Kless Trio.
Teaching & Family
Working alongside his father, Yair Kless
Eyal works and performs with his father, Yair Kless. His own and mutual students have won first prizes and are laureates of numerous international and national competitions. He gives lectures on stage fright and technical elements of playing, as well as masterclasses and concerts around the world — including Taiwan, New Zealand, the USA, and most of the EU — and is invited to jury panels of international competitions.
Eyal studied in Tel Aviv with his father, Prof. Yair Kless, and in Vienna with Profs. Igor Ozim, Michael Frischenschlager, and Reiner Kuchl. His first professional book, Zen and the Art of Violin Practicing, is praised by students and professionals alike.
Author
From tabletop maps to published novels
From the moment I could read, I wanted to become a writer — or at the very least, create more exciting adventures for the heroes of the children's books I loved. Years of tabletop role-playing games followed, filled with invented worlds, mythologies, and maps drawn late into the night.
A chance conversation with a friend at a small publishing house turned a half-finished manuscript into a deadline, and that deadline became Rocca's Violin(Korim Publications, 2008) — a musical comedy thriller about a failed violinist who falls in love with an old instrument he's borrowed, and keeps it after its owner is found dead under mysterious circumstances.
Years later, a reader's insistence for more writing led Eyal back to an epic science-fiction/fantasy novel he'd been writing on and off for years. That novel, The Lost Puzzler, found a literary agent in Rena Rossner of the Deborah Harris Literary Agency, and was published by HarperCollins Voyager (English) and Blanvalet (German). Its sequel, Puzzler's War, followed.