Conductor born in 1996. Since 2021 works as assistant conductor to Maestro Ruben Gazarian in the Israel Chamber Orchestra after winning the "Young Conductors" competition. In 2022 won the 1st Prize & Festival Academy Orchestra Prize in the "Wiener Schule" international conducting competition in Vienna's Musikverein. In 2024 won the 1st prize award of the 5th international conducting Academy & Competition with Orquestra de Câmara de Cascais e Oeiras in Portugal. That same year won a Special Prize in the 8th Ionel Perlea conducting competition 2024 in Romania- Appointment in the 2024-2025 season of the National Theater of Opera & Ballet "Oleg Danovski" – Romania. In 2023 won the 3rd Prize in the 5th BMI international conducting competition in the Romanian Athenaeum. In 2022 won the "Golden Baton" competition in collaboration between Buchmann – Mehta School of Music with Haifa Symphony Orchestra.
Graduated his B.A in Orchestra conducting in the Buchmann Mehta School of Music in Tel-Aviv University in Mr. Yi-An Xu's Class - August 2021. Recipient of the American- Israel Cultural Foundation conducting scholarship for 2022-2023 and recipient of the Colton Scholarship from the Tel Aviv University 2022 for emerging young talents.
In 2024 Nitai made his debut with the Tirgu Mures State Philharmonic (Romania) together with pianist Daniel Ciobanu (prize winner of Rubinstein competition) with pieces by Gershwin and Bernstein. That same year Nitai conducted the world premiere of the opera "Kind of a Monster"- Music by film composer Ady Cohen and Libretto by international Soprano Shira Patshornik. In 2023 Nitai was invited to conduct the "Lunigiana" international Music Festival's orchestra after participating in the Florence conducting masterclass and being chosen as a leading participant. In 2022 Nitai recorded music by De Falla, Aranjeuz and more for Ra'anana Symphonette orchestra's "Color Food" project. That same year Nitai jumped into a project with the ICO after conductor's cancellation due to Covid with pieces by Ravel, Jolivet, and Debussy.
Nitai gained experience conducting orchestras around the world, amongst them: Tirgu Mures state philharmonic, Bucharest Symphony Orchestra, Athens Philharmonia Orchestra, Universitätsorchester Dresden, Liunigiana International Music Festival Orchestra, "Haydn" symphony orchestra Vienna, Haifa Symphony Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, 21st Century Ensemble, The Israel Chamber Orchestra, Ra'anana symphonette, Be'er Sheva Sinfonietta and more. In the past years Nitai studied under the guidance of Maestro Lahav Shani (Israel-Rotterdam), Maestro PHD Jin Wang (China - Vienna), Maestro György G. Ráth (Italy), Maestro Helmuth Reichel Silva (Germany), Maestro Michalis Economos (Greece) and More.
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