Yehuda Hanani is an international soloist, recording artist, Israeli-American cellist and Professor of Violoncello at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
He is a frequent guest at major music festivals (Aspen, Bowdoin, Chautauqua, Yale at Norfolk, Blue Hill, Great Wall in Beijing, Great Lakes, Round Top, Casals Prades in France, Finland Festival, Ottawa, Oslo, Prague, and Australia Chamber Music), and has collaborated in performances with preeminent fellow musicians.
He has similarly championed composers such as Leo Ornstein, Virgil Thomson, and William Schuman with performances and recordings of their works and has been credited with helping to rediscover the life and works of Mendelssohn student Eduard Franck, whose chamber music he has recorded (NAXOS) with violinist Shmuel Ashkenasi and pianist James Tocco.
Major composers who have written works for him include: Lera Auerbach, Robert Beaser, Kenji Bunch, Osvaldo Golijov, Jonathan Keren, Owen Leech, Jorge Martin, John Musto, William Perry, Bernard Rands, and Paul Schoenfield.
Yehuda Hanani has been the subject of hundreds of feature stories, interviews, and reviews in the national and international press, including The New York Times, London Daily Telegraph, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, Detroit Free Press, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Baltimore Sun, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Cincinnati Enquirer, Arizona Republic, Buffalo Evening News, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, American Record Guide, Stereo Review, Musical America, Strings, Strad, Fanfare, newspapers throughout Europe, Israel, Central and South America, and has been a contributor to Chamber Music Magazine, Strings, and Strad.