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Guy Moskovich

Piano, keyboards, composition — Israeli (New York-based) — B: August 1, 1996, Israel (per AICF/press bio; birthplace not specified)

Last updated September 10, 2026

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Guy Moskovich began classical piano at nine and turned to jazz at fourteen, training at Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts. He placed first in the "Al-Derech-HaMelech" piano competition in Ashdod in 2007 and second the following year, and received scholarships from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation that helped send him to New York, where he earned a BFA in Jazz Performance from The New School in 2019, studying and performing alongside Omer Avital, Mike Rodriguez and Ulysses Owens Jr. He has played the Red Sea Jazz Festival and the Bern Jazz Festival, and worked the New York club circuit at Cornelia Street Café and the Jazz Gallery.

His most notable credential is as the pianist in the Avishai Cohen (bass) Trio, a chair he held for close to three years alongside drummer Roni Kaspi. Cohen's own February 2023 newsletter confirmed the lineup directly, noting that "Avishai and his trio with Guy Moskovich (piano) and Roni Kaspi (drums) began 2023 with 2 sold-out shows." Reporting found closer to this profile's publication indicates he was succeeded in the trio by pianist Itay Simhovich starting with a show on March 13, 2026, after nearly three years in the chair — a detail sourced to tour-date coverage rather than a primary Avishai Cohen statement, and offered here as the most current information available rather than as fully confirmed.

He has also worked as a session pianist on other artists' records, including a 2024 Avex-classics session for the Japanese pianist Shutaro Matsui produced by Makoto Ozone, and a 2022 Ubuntu Music release led by fellow Israeli saxophonist Asaf Harris. A December 2025 Tel Aviv club listing, advertising a date with his own band and original material, summarized his run of the previous several years as "collaborating with international Jazz greats (Avishai Cohen, Makoto Ozone, Mike Rodriguez, Omer Avital)." He continues to perform in Israel; he was booked at Amama Jazz in Tel Aviv in December 2025 and again in January 2026.

Moskovich's discography is built almost entirely from high-level sideman work rather than a leader catalogue: a trio chair with one of the most prominent bassist-leaders working today, a produced session for an established Japanese pianist, and dates for working Israeli-diaspora bandleaders. That pattern — training at The New School, then moving directly into first-call sideman work in New York and Tel Aviv rather than issuing an early leader record — places him among the current generation of Israeli jazz pianists whose reputations are built on the bandstand before the studio.

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Guy Moskovich: Full Discography

Guy Moskovich has no leader album to date; his recorded output is entirely sideman/session work, verified against the live Discogs API (artist ID 9041092) and cross-checked against his Spotify artist page (3ayMZIWae6YcKu9kdj0pVK), whose listed top tracks match these same sessions.

A note on a distinct, unrelated Discogs entry. A separate artist, "Guy Moshkovitz" (Discogs ID 6267441), is a choir/metal vocalist credited with Hellscore Choir, Scardust and Orphaned Land. This is a different person — different spelling, different genre, no piano/jazz credits — and is not to be conflated with Guy Moskovich (ID 9041092).

As Sideman

Album Title Leader Year Label Catalog Number Role Notes
Imaginary Story Takuya Kohashi 2021 Apollo Sounds APLS2103 Piano Credited on tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 6.
Walk Of The Duck Asaf Harris 2022 Ubuntu Music UBU0109 Piano
Danse Macabre Shutaro Matsui 2024 Avex-classics / Power Station At BerkleeNYC AVJL-84168 (alt. pressing AVJL-84167) Piano Produced by Makoto Ozone; alongside Walter Blanding (saxophone), Ben Wolfe (bass) and Johnathan Blake (drums).
Brightlight Avishai Cohen 2024 Naïve BLV8584 (alt. pressing BLV8583) Piano Roni Kaspi (drums) completes the trio Moskovich played in for nearly three years.

Notes on sources and gaps

No leader or co-leader release could be found on Discogs, Spotify, or in general search — everything documented here is a dated, labeled sideman credit. Two of his most-cited biographical connections (studying/performing with Omer Avital, Mike Rodriguez and Ulysses Owens Jr.; touring festivals including Red Sea Jazz and Bern Jazz) do not correspond to any specific catalogued release and are sourced to biographical pages rather than a discography entry.

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