Orli Shaham was born in Israel, where at age five she received a music scholarship from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation and studied with Luisa Yoffe at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem. When she was seven, she settled in New York with her family and was accepted at the Juilliard School a year later as a scholarship student of Herbert Stessin. A graduate of the Horace Mann School in Riverdale, New York, and of Columbia University, she has received the Gilmore Young Artist Award and an Avery Fisher Career Grant. Orli Shaham made her San Francisco Symphony debut in 2003 and has returned frequently. She has appeared with orchestras around the world and at such festivals as those of Aspen, Ravinia, Caramoor, Spoleto (Italy), and Davos. Orli Shaham is featured with her brother, Gil Shaham, on the Deutsche Grammophon recording Dvořák for Two; all-Prokofiev and all-Mozart discs with Mr. Shaham are also available on Canary Classics.