Cellist Adi Varon began her studies with Luba Rabin in 2011 and continued with Zvi Plesser from 2016 to 2022. She studies with Professor Hillel Zori at Tel Aviv University’s Buchmann-Mehta School of Music.

Adi won first prizes at the 2022 Paul Ben-Haim Competition and the 2024 BMSM String Competition. An America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship recipient since 2015, she receives support from the Ronen Foundation and won Germany’s 2025 Bruno Frey Foundation Music Prize.

Selected by Lahav Shani in 2025, Adi performed as soloist under his baton with the BMSM Symphony Orchestra. She has participated in Musethica, the Perlman Music Program, Geneva International String Academy, Keshet Eilon, and Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra, where she served as principal cellist. Her masterclass mentors include Steven Isserlis, Frans Helmerson, and Gary Hoffman.