Yaara Tal's musical sensitivity and flexibility have always meant that she is at ease with different instrumentations and styles across the musical spectrum. After several years as a solo performer, Yaara Tal joined forces with Andreas Groethuysen to form a piano duo, which has since become the focus of their artistic activities. For many years, Yaara Tal and Andreas Groethuysen concentrated their pedagogical activities on masterclasses at home and abroad. In 2004, the duo Tal & Groethuysen was appointed by the University of Music and Theatre Munich to supervise the master's programme in piano duo; the Mozarteum University appointed them in the same role in 2014.
Yaara Tal gave her first concert at the age of seven. She was supported by the American Israel Cultural Foundation throughout her youth, studying piano with Arie Vardi and composition with Abel Ehrlich and André Hajdu at the Rubin Music Academy in Tel Aviv. After graduating, she continued her studies with Hugo Steurer and Ludwig Hoffmann at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich with the help of a scholarship from the DAAD. She was also strongly influenced by Peter Feuchtwanger.
Since the early 1990s, Yaara Tal has been part of the duo Tal & Groethuysen is also active in international concert life with appearances in most European countries, in Israel, Japan, China, North and South America. The duo have performed in world-renowned venues such as the Royal Concertgebouw, the Berliner and Cologne Philharmonie, Munich Gasteig, Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Musikhalle Hamburg, the Hongkong Arts Festival, Lucerne Festival, Teatro alla Scala, the Frick Collection New York, der Forbidden City Concert Hall Beijing, the Piano Festival La Roque d'Anthéron, the Klavier-Festival Ruhr, the Salzburg Festival, the Wiener Musikverein and the Tonhalle Zürich. In 1995, the Japanese national broadcaster, NHK, worked together with the duo to produce an eight-part TV series of piano lessons for their educational channel.
In exclusive collaboration with the label SONY CLASSICAL, the duo has recorded a series of over 30 CDs, which have attracted praise from audiences and critics alike and won numerous accolades, including the German Record Critics’ Award (10 times), the Echo Prize (5 times), and the Cannes Classical Award; they have also made significant contributions to the world of recorded music with their premiere recordings of a number of pieces. A jewel in their discography is their premiere recordings of the complete works for two pianos by Franz Schubert and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.