Lior Grunwald was born in Beer Sheva, Israel and began his violin studies at the Beer Sheva Conservatory of Music at the age of seven. From 2010-17, he studied with Professor Roi Shiloah at the Conservatory of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and started his bachelor’s degree at the Jerusalem Academy of Music in the class of Professors Roi Shiloah and Haim Taub.
Lior has won scholarships from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, and has played regularly since 2012 as a soloist at the Eden-Tamir Music Center, the Israel Museum of Jerusalem and the Jerusalem Music Center. He has also appeared as a soloist with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Beer Sheva Israel Sinfonietta Orchestra, the Ashdod Symphony Orchestra and Thelma Yellin Symphony Orchestra.
He has been a member of the Young Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the David Goldman Program and the Ilona Feher Program, as well as the Huberman Festival of the Jerusalem Music Center. He has been an active performer at the Keshet Eilon International Music Course, the Zeist International Music Festival and Berkshire High Peaks Festival.
Lior has performed in master classes with well-known musicians including Ilya Kaler, Miriam Fried, Murray Perahia, Daniel Heifetz, Hagay Shaham, Ida Bieler, Michaela Martin and Yair Cless. He is continuing his studies at UNCSA in the studio of Professor Ida Bieler as a recipient of the UNCSA/Winston-Salem Symphony Strings Fellowship award. He plays a Grandjon violin on loan to him through the generosity of the American-Israel Cultural Foundation.