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Ammiel Issaschar Bushakevitz is an Israeli-South African pianist.
He was born in Jerusalem, Israel in 1986.
Bushakevitz studied at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Leipzig, Germany and the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris in Paris, France.
He has been awarded the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst's International Scholarship for Artists, European Commission Award, French-German Forum for Young Artists Award, HMT Freundeskreis Scholarship, Ad-Infinitum-Stiftung Award, Oppenheimer Memorial Trust Scholarship, Bill Venter/FAK Bursary, Pretorium Trust Postgraduate Bursary, FAK Senior Music Award, PJ Lemmer Scholarship, Southern African Music Rights Organisation SAMRO Undergraduate Bursary, Isaac Greenberg Scholarship for Jewish Students, Du Toit/Van Tonder Award, Gladwell Scholarship, Gideon Roos/Esther Mentz Award, UP General Study Scholarship, Stellenbosch Vrouevereniging Award and Brenda Rein Scholarship. In 2014 Ammiel Bushakevitz was named Edison Fellow of the British Library, London.