James Raphael Gallery

THE VAN CLIBURN

My mother Henriette Moussaieff Raphael Identity card from Van Cliburn competition from 1977, my teacher George Mavromatis in Greece with myself at 10 years old with mother, father and sister.

Competition at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton England. I won third prize.

LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI

Son of composer Prokofiev . He was a writer . I met him in Rome at my concert.

Picture with the great artist LeRoy Neiman who after hearing the slow movement of my piano concerto for harp, piano and orchestra made a beautiful painting of me and gave it to me as a gift.

Concert dedicated to Santa Rosa of Viterbo .

My recital in Tel Aviv ,Israel on the Historical harp sounding Siena piano. My mother in the picture

James Raphael with one of the worlds greatest pianist Nikita Magaloff after having a master class with him. My mother is also in the picture.

Archangel Goldstein with her beautiful Salvi Italian Harp

My wonderful piano teacher George Mavromatis in Athens.Greece.

James Raphael with Mehli Mehta after performing the Prokofiev piano concerto N3, at Royce Hall in Los Angeles.CA.

James Raphael with President of Israel Ephraim Katzir during Rubinstein master piano competition at the Knesset.

James Raphael and family with Mission Impossible composer Lalo Schifrin

James Raphael with famous comedian Joan Rivers

Baby James Raphael

James Raphael with son Immanuel born in 1988 who is a great tenor and dog Shorty who liked to howl with Immanuel’s singing.

My mother and father immigrating to America on the boat. My mother waving on top to the Statue of Liberty saying God Bless America and father sitting below.

Young James Raphael with his wonderful piano teacher in Rome Italy. Rina Rossi.

Golda Meir and James Raphael at the 1-st Artur Rubinstein piano master competition in Jerusalem Israel after hearing me play.

Grandmother from father’s side, aunt and uncle killed in Auschwitz. Uncle Victor , aunt Beatrice and grandmother Julia . My 13 variations and 5 voice fugue on the national Anthem of Israel Hatikva is dedicated to them and all the victims of Holocaust. It is considered by critics as a major masterpiece.

Young James Raphael with Archangel Lissette Goldstein. She was a harp student who inspired the creation of James Raphael’s Wizard piano concerto for harp , piano and orchestra. and would practice the harp part until her fingers would bleed. She went to Spain to try to study with the greatest harpist in the world at the time Nicanor Zabaleta . She died tragically 30 years ago.

James Raphael played a concert to benefit the ABC Recovery Center created by Mrs.Betty Ford. President Gerald Ford and Betty Ford were present at the concert and were very thankful.

Concert in Siena Italy at the Ghigiana music Academy after a master class with the great Russian pianist Stanislav Neuhaus.

Queen Marie Jose of Savoy with my mother, Father and myself in Israel after playing a private piano recital on the Siena Piano, that famous and unique harp sounding piano which was stolen by the Nazis from the Royal Italian palace in Rome which the Queen identified.

At the piano is the expert piano tuner Mr.Avner Carmi and restorer of the piano and James Raphael

The Jury from my piano graduation in 1975 from the Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome Italy. James Raphael was awarded top points and honors. From left to right Prof. Tromboni, Vincenzo Vitali, Renato Fasano, James Raphael and Jacopo Napoli. Also in the Jury were Sergio Perticaroli and Rodolfo Caporali.

A picture with the greatest pianist in the world at the time Artur Rubinstein and incredible Russian female pianist Ester Yellin in Jerusalem during the Rubinstein master piano competition.

The Great Liberace in Las Vegas with myself and my mother

A young James Raphael enchanting a snake around his neck with his music.

James Raphael with his father and Mike Tyson. James Raphael plays The Ritual Fire Dance by Manuel de Falla like Mike Tyson’s punches. Which can been seen on James Raphael’s YouTube channel.

Piano Concerto #3

Piano concerto Prokofiev

James Raphael with the great music critic.

Old painting from a church a Viterbo, Italy . When the divine has a message for you an angel will come with a loud trumpet shouting it in your ear.

Baby James Raphael with his sister Rita , brother Rodger and brother Jerry

Great grandmother Esther Gaonoff and great grandfather Rabbi Shlomo Moussaieff

James Raphael Wife Satenik Muradyan

James Raphael wife Satenik Muradyan

James Raphael and Wife Satenik Muradyan

James Raphael family

James and Satenik

The Great Hindu Avatar(God incarnate) Sai Baba . Millions of people around the world believe in his divine powers of healing and miracles. I met him 35 years ago at his Ashram in Puttaparthi ,India. By miracle I got close to him and asked him how can we become like God? His answer was Be Good, Do Good and See Good, after which he took my hand in his and held it for about half a minute . The Hand of the Avatar (God incarnate) touching the hand of the would be a concert pianist and composer.

Dr. Wayne Hey was a great Urologist and saintly man. He was the closest person like Jesus that i ever met . Every week we took bible lessons with him. He had wonderful insight into holly matters which inspired me so much. Dr.Hey would always ask two questions. The first is “ if you died tonight are you sure you would go to heaven” ? The second question is “ if you went to heaven and St.Peter came to you and said why should I let you into heaven, what would you say”? The answer to both questions is - Yes I know I will go to heaven, and the reason is we did not earn it , or deserve it since Jesus died in my place and I asked him to be my savior and that is the only reason I am qualified to enter heaven . God bless his soul!

My son called him Tex Twosome but his name is Tex Moncrief and in this picture he is 101 years old and passed away six month later . He was a billionaire in the oil and gas business, and was a member of the Forbes 400. He would say “I piss what those millionaires are worth”!!! God bless his soul.

Dr. Wayne Hey and James Raphael with his two sons Ely and Harry.

The original snake charmer in India . The snake’s eyes almost looks human and his poor destiny is to come out of the box myriads of times to entertain people upon hearing the musical sounds of his master.