Gilad also entered the Conservatoire de Marseille [fr], Pierre Pradier's class, and won a gold medal at the age of 11.
[1] In April 1998, at the age of 17, he played Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto at the Berlin festival with Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim.
Later, he was the soloist for the American tour of Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Yuri Temirkanov, and then gave a concert at the Carnegie Hall of New York.
In November 1998, his first recording was released on CD by EMI Classics as part of their "Début" series; it included sonatas by Mozart, Beethoven and Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel by Brahms.
Gilad also participates regularly in concert performances of chamber music, with partners such as Julia Fischer, Mihaela Martin, Nikolaj Znaider, Viviane Hagner, Frans Helmerson, Daniel Müller-Schott, Renaud and Gautier Capuçon.