Israeli musician Dor Gidon Amran was born in 1999 in Beer Sheva, where he carried out Conservatory studies in mandolin, piano, and conducting. He holds a degree in mandolin, earned under the guidance of Jacob Reuven at the Jerusalem Music Academy, and followed graduate studies in Eitan Globerson’s conducting class. Having worked as an assistant conductor in symphonic and operatic productions (The Magic Flute, Aida, La traviata, The Tales of Hoffmann, Die Fledermaus, and Don Giovanni) alongside great conductors such as Omer Meir Wellber, Yuval Zorn, Giuliano Carella, Karl Heinz Steffens, and Dan Ettinger, today he carries out an active performing career. As a soloist, he has appeared in Israel with orchestras such as the Israel Sinfonietta Beer Sheva, Raanana Symphonette, the Israeli Chamber Orchestra, Barrocade, the Israel Symphony Orchestra. He has moreover made a name for himself as an arranger; he is the arranger of the Israeli Mandolin Soloists Ensemble and has worked with several chamber orchestras. He teaches mandolin at the University of Rhode Island, where he has taken part in the Guitar & Mandolin Festival.
Dor worked as a Mandolin and Music theory teacher at the Beer Sheva Conservatory, and as a piano accompanist in the vocal rehearsals of operatic productions and vocal lessons at the Music Academy.
He has won the AICF scholarship competition every year since 2016, the Plucked Instruments Competition of the Jerusalem Music Academy between 2018 and 2021, the Sarni Competition of the Beer Sheva Conservatory in 2014 and 2016, the Paul Ben Haim National Competition in 2018, the Dina Turgeman Chamber Music Competition in 2021, and came second at the International Mandolin Competition in Modena (Italy).
As a mandolin player, and quartet and orchestra member, he performed in tours of Italy, Croatia, Montenegro, Belarus, USA, Belgium, and Spain; as soloist, he has appeared in Moldova and in the Paganini Genova Festival. His is the world première recording of Paganini’s 24 Caprices played on the mandolin.
He is accompanist pianist at the Israeli Opera House (where he was also an assistant conductor) and was accepted at Penn State University for a M.A. in Orchestral Conducting. Dor plays a mandolin and a mandoncello made by Israeli luthier Arik Kerman.