His first recording was dedicated to Leoš Janáček, whose complete works for piano and chamber music with piano.
He went on to record numerous CDs featuring works by Haydn, Brahms, Schubert, Bartók, Debussy and his own compositions. His recordings and numerous radio recordings have been very well received by audiences and the press.
Critics unanimously described him as a ‘magician of sound’, a ‘poet of the piano with perfect technique’ and a ‘pianist with a sense of sound, charm and wit’.
Gilead Mishory has also made a name for himself as a composer with the cycle ‘Lider-Togbuch’, created in 1998 and inspired by the poems of Sutzkever.
His affinity for literature as a source of inspiration is also evident in the ‘Hebrew Ballads’ based on Else Lasker-Schüler, in “Fluchtstücke” based on Anne Michaels’ novel, in the string quartet ‘Psalm’ based on Paul Celan, and in ‘Di wajte hajmat majne’ for tenor and orchestra, based on poems by Marc Chagall.
He completed his opera, ‘Isaaks Jugend’, in 2010.
In 2011, a first CD with his works was released by NEOS, followed in 2016 by the CD ‘An Aeneas’. Some of his works have been published by Peermusic Classical.
Children in many countries have played piano pieces from his albums for young people: Mein Opa und ich, Meine Oma und ich and Mein verrückter Klavierlehrer.
In 2000, after teaching for two years at the University of Detmold-Dortmund, Gilead Mishory was appointed to the Musikhochschule in Freiburg, where he currently teaches an excellent class. He is also regularly invited to give masterclasses around the world.
Finally, over the last three seasons, Gilead Mishory has performed around fifty times in Freiburg as an actor in Souvenir: The True Life of Florence Foster-Jenkins.