Career
Arad began his training on the violin in Tel Aviv and received an Artist Diploma in 1966 from the Samuel Rubin Israeli Academy of Music. In 1968 he was selected for study at Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth in Waterloo, Belgium, earning a Laureate there in 1971 and a Diplome Superieure from Brussels Conservatory in 1973. Having decided to devote himself to the viola in 1971, he entered the Carl Flesch International Competition in 1972 as a violist, winning the City of London prize in his first public appearance with the instrument.
Two months later he repeated, winning first prize in the International Viola Competition in Geneva, Switzerland.
He was succeeded by James Dunham. Arad teaches at Indiana University"s Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, and the Steans Institute for Young Artists at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, Illinois as well as the Domaine Forget Music and Dance Academy in Quebec.
Previously he was Professor of Viola at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New New York He has also taught at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in Houston, Texas and has been an artist/lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Prior to 1980 he served on faculties at Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth and the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, England.
Berlin Music Festival, Berlin, Germany
Israel Festival, Caesarea, Israel
Flanders Music Festival, Antwerp, Belgium
Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland
Salzburg Festival, Salzburg, Austria
Mostly Mozart Festival, New York City, New York, United States
Sitka Summer Music Festival, Sitka, Alaska, United States
Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, Colorado, United States
Chautauqua Festival, Chautauqua, New York, United States
Ravinia Festival near Chicago, Illinois, United States
Domaine Forget International Festival, Saint-Irenee, Quebec, Canada
His compositions include:
Sonata for Viola Solo (1992)
String Quartet (1993)
Caprices for Viola Solo (2003)
Concerto per la Viola (2005)
His essays have explored compositional aspects of viola concertos:
The Thirteen Pages (The American String Teacher, Winter 1988)
Walton as Scapino (The Strad, February 1989)
He has recorded, as featured soloist or with the Cleveland Quartet, on the Radio Corporation of America Red Seal, Columbia Broadcasting System Masterworks, Teldec Telefunken, Telarc and RIAX Records Classical labels.