Netanel Draiblate won the First Prize at the Jerusalem Academy Solo Competition (1998), the Ben-Haim Competition (1995) Second Prizes at the Young Artists Competition in Haifa (1999), and a major prize in the Peabody’s Yale Gordon Competition (2006). He was also awarded the J.C Van Hulstein Award, the Carl Holzapfel Violin Shop Endowed Scholarship and the 2008 Grace Clagett Ranney Prize, all by the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.

Netanel has performed as soloist with the American Symphony Orchestra in his Carnegie Hall solo debut in 2008, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Ashdod Symphony Orchestra, Rishon Le Zion Symphony Orchestra, the Thelma Yellin Symphony Orchestra, MSO Mediterranean Symphony Orchestra, the World Youth Orchestra, the Tel-Aviv Soloists and recently, in Turkey with the Bursa Symphony Orchestra, for their 2006/07 season-opening concert.

He has also been heard in numerous recitals and chamber music concerts in Israel, USA, Argentina, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, France, Belgium, Germany and Italy.In 2002 as Concertmaster of the World Youth Orchestra, Mr. Draiblate was invited to perform with Mr. Daniel Stabrawa, former Concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic in a chamber concert. He was invited back in 2009 as the Guest Concertmaster for the World Youth Orchestra European tour.

In 2003, Netanel collaborated with such luminaries as Pinchas Zukerman, Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Jaime Laredo and Lin Cho Liang in a Gala Concert at Carnegie Hall. A month before, in this same venue, he took part in the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Gala Concert.

Mr. Draiblate was also invited to represent Israel in a concert hosted by the King of Norway, celebrating the Fourth anniversary of the Oslo Accords.

His rich and varied orchestral experience includes regular invitations to principal positions in the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Daniel Barenboim, the Tel-Aviv Soloists, as well as Concertmaster positions with the World Youth Orchestra, Thelma Yellin Symphony Orchestra, Israel Young Philharmonic, the Chicago College of Performing Arts Symphony and the Peabody Symphony Orchestra. Netanel is currently performing as Associate Concertmaster with the Lancaster (PA) Symphony Orchestra and is one of two finalists for the position of Concertmaster of the Annapolis (MD) Symphony Orchestra.

He was a pupil of Pamela Frank, Vali Blutner, Hagai Shaham and Shmuel Ashkenasi. Netanel has participated in masterclasses with Isaac Stern, Dorothy DeLay, Pinchas Zukerman, Zachar Bron and Miriam Fried.

Netanel is the first violinist to be supported by the Ilona Feher Foundation, and performed in the Foundation’s concerts, among them, a Gala concert in Carnegie Hall in April 2008. He has received annual scholarships since 1990 from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation as well as scholarships from the Ronen Foundation, the Barenboim-Said Foundation, the Buchman Haiman Foundation and the Peabody Institute.