Yaron Gottfried (Hebrew: ירון גוטפריד; born in 1968) is an Israeli conductor, pianist and composer.

Gottfried was a student of Noam Sheriff in composition and Mandy Roden in conducting and is a graduate of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance.

[1] Gottfried was the chosen artist of the Foundation for Excellence in Culture for the years 2003 to 2007, he is a member of the prestigious MacDowell Artist Center in the United States, the winner of the first prize in the conducting competition as part of the Young Artist Week on behalf of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, the winner of the first prize in the jazz composition competition held As part of the Red Sea Jazz Festival, he also won over ten years of scholarships in conducting and composing from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation.

Until 2021, Gottfried was at the head of the trend for composing, arranging and conducting at the "Rimon" school, which he also founded in 2012, and is the artistic director of the new concert series at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art "Outside the Box".

In January 2015, he was invited to replace conductor Valery Gergiev with the Israel Philharmonic for the Israeli premiere of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony in a concert that received rave reviews.