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An Andres Segovia Award winner (Musica en Compstela, Spain 2006), Nadav Lev is a prominent guitarist and composer. His playing was described as: “exceptionally musical and cleanly articulated performance... had the sold out room in hushed and admiring silence... played like a dream... Incredible tone and effortless fluid technique created magic up there on that stage” (Classical Guitar at Yahoo). An Israel native, Nadav is the only guitarist to ever win the America-Israel Cultural Foundation prestigious Abroad Studies award, and next season he will give his Carnegie Hall Debut concert after winning Artists International’s Special Presentation Award. Among other prizes he won are the "Ra'anana Guitar Competition" first prize and the "Jerusalem Guitar Competition" Rodrigo Prize.

Nadav performed and gave recitals throughout the US, Israel and Europe, in venues such as the Lincoln Center in New York, the Centro Cultural Espanol in Miami and Iglesia De Sampaio De Antealtares in Santiago de Compostela. He performed in several orchestral and chamber productions, with groups such as the "Chamber Kibbutsim Orchestra" and the "Rishon Lezion" symphonic orchestra. Mr. Lev also performed with Ruben Seroussi at the International Guitar Festival in Tel Aviv, in special concerts of contemporary Israeli music and was broadcasted on the Israeli Radio and the Educational Television Channel.

Nadav has attended master classes in Europe and in the US with world renowned guitarists Pepe Romero, Sharon Isbin, Manuel Barrueco, Alvaro Pierri, Benjamin Verdery and Wolfgang Lendle. He graduated with honors the Master of Music program at the Manhattan School of Music, under the guidance of David Starobin and David Leisner. He earned his bachelor degree with honors from the Rubin Academy in Tel-Aviv, where he studied Composition with Ruben Seroussi and Izhak Sadai. He also holds a Bachelor degree in Philosophy from the Tel-Aviv University (Magna Cum Laude). During his studies in the academy, Nadav composed several pieces which were performed in Israel, as well as music for theater productions. His piece "If I could tell you" was performed in the international Asian Music Festival 2004 at the YMCA Jerusalem hall.

Currently a classical guitarist, Nadav began playing jazz guitar at the age of nine. After graduating with honors from the Jazz Department at the “Thelma Yelin” High School for the Arts, he joined the Israeli army as the guitarist of the Air-Force Orchestra. Turning to classical music, he studied classical guitar and composition with Ruben Seroussi.

Nadav is also an active teacher and educator. A former Head of the Guitar Department at the Kfar Saba Conservatory, one of Israel’s leading music schools, Nadav is currently on faculty at the Lucy Moses School at Kaufman Center in New York, as well as maintaining a private studio.