Gal Hecht is an upcoming 28 years old, jazz pianist, keyboard player, composer and educator from Rehovot. His music is creative, revolutionary and interesting, influenced by bands and musicians like: Fred Hersch, Kenny Barron, Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Hiromi Uehara and more.
Gal has been Studying the piano since he was 5 years old, starting with classical music, and then jazz. He graduated “De-Shalit” high school from Rehovot majoring in music, in which he performed a jazz recital. During his musical education, Gal also studied the trumpet for 4 years at Rehovot Conservatory.
He began his academic journey at the New-School special jazz program in Tel Aviv Conservatory of Israel. At the same time, he led the band “Nu Ma”- a funk fusion jazz ensemble which performed across the country of Israel in various venues, clubs, and festivals. As of now, the band is in the process of producing its first album. Additionally, He is a professional player with other new local Israeli artists. Gal has music teaching experience being a music teacher at “Yamaha Music School”, in Tel Aviv, and a music teacher at “Basher music” in the Shfela region, and now a music teacher at Encore Music program at JSC in Brooklyn.
As of now he graduated “The New School” jazz program in New York from which he was learning from various skilled artists such as Aaron Goldberg, Jimmy Owens, Valery Ponomarev, Anat Cohen and Sam Yahel. His love, curiosity and dedication to music will ensure an immense success in the future of his music career.