Born in Israel in 1967, Ofer Falk studied with the legendary pedagogue Ilona Feher at the Tel-Aviv Music Academy (now Buchmann-Mehta School of Music) and later with Professor Dora Schwarzberg at the Hochschule in Vienna.
Ofer has won numerous prizes in international competitions, including the Henryk Szeryng Special Prize (1993) and top prizes in the Tchaikovsky 10th International Competition in Moscow (1994) and the Montreal International Violin Competition (1995).
Ofer made his debut performance as a soloist with the English Chamber Orchestra in February 2003 and was immediately re-invited for subsequent performances. Other UK venues at which Ofer has performed concerti include the Barbican, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Saint Martin-in-the-Fields, and the Purcell Room.
Ofer is a member of the English Chamber Orchestra and frequently leads the orchestra. This season, Ofer directed and played as soloist with the English Chamber Orchestra in the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto as well as Chausson’s Poèmeand Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Quartet.
In April 2017, Ofer gave the first UK performance of the Lange-Müller Concerto with the Orchestra dell’Arte and repeated it in February 2025.
Internationally, his performances have been broadcast on both radio and television, including BBC Radio 3, German Radio Berlin, Israeli Radio and Television, Russian State Radio and Television, and Canadian Radio (CBC).
Ofer is an accomplished chamber musician. He was a founding member and leader of the Schidlof Quartet (1994–2001), the Falk Quartet (2001–2003), and from 2007 to 2015, the leader of the Allegri String Quartet. He has recorded three CDs with the Schidlof Quartet (Linn Records), one with the Falk Quartet, and three with the Allegri Quartet.
Ofer is Professor of Violin at Trinity Laban Conservatoire and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Ofer plays on a commissioned 2023 violin by Jérémie Legrand.
