Yaron Gershovsky is a highly accomplished and Internationally recognized Pianist/Keyboardist, Arranger, Composer and Producer.

He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Berklee College of Music in Boston, following a successful early career in Israel where he was born. Soon thereafter, he launched his musical career in the United States, touring with the great Jazz saxophone player Pharoah Sanders, and recording with the legendary Wayne Shorter on his album Atlantis.

Since 1979, Yaron has been the Musical Director and Pianist/Keyboardist for the world-renowned vocal group The Manhattan Transfer, touring, recording and writing instrumental and vocal arrangements for them, including two for Grammy award winning songs.

Yaron has also recorded and performed with other greats, including Lonnie Smith, Steve Gadd, Abraham Laboriel, Lew Soloff, Janis Siegel, Ray Brown, Grady Tate, Don Sebesky, The Count Basie Orchestra, Richie Havens, Take 6, and Toots Thielemans.

His Broadway credits include vocal arranging for the Tony Award winning musical “City of Angels”, and vocal arranging for the musical hit “Swing”. He was also the Musical Director for numerous other shows, and workshops, as well as keyboardist for the musicals “The Phantom of The Opera” and “Les Miserables”. Yaron had the honor of working with the famed conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, and performing with him in Carnegie Hall.

In the Jewish music field, Yaron has performed with, Produced for and recorded with such greats as Mordechai Ben David, Avraham Fried, Shlomo Carlebach and Debbie Friedman.

Throughout his career, Yaron continuously writes, performs, and records his own music, and has released numerous CDs, such as “Personal Notes” and “State of Mind”, and most recently “Up Close from Afar – Solo Piano”, and “Up Close from Afar – Collaborations”, which highlight his creative work during the Pandemic enforced isolation. Yaron’s latest CD “Transitions” was released in January of 2022 to much public acclaim.

Later that year, Yaron has arranged two songs for the Grammy nominated Manhattan Transfer’s latest release – “Fifty”.

Yaron’s newest release, a collaboration with Janis Siegel, “The Colors Of My Life” – The Cy Coleman Songbook, is to be released on June 7th, 2024, on the Club44Records label.