Zohar Lerner has been concertmaster of the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn since October 2009. The violinist, who comes from Israel, first studied at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel Aviv. His teachers in Israel included David Chan, Haim Taub, Irena Svetlova and Yair Kless. He later continued his studies at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin, where he worked with Christoph Poppen, Isabelle Faust and Stephan Picard, among others. While still a student, he won 1st prize in the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music Competition and was a finalist in the Aviv Competition. Master classes with Isaac Stern, Pinchas Zukerman, Ida Haendel, Miriam Fried, Rainer Kussmaul, Guy Braunstein and the Melos, Guarnieri, Juilliard and Emerson String Quartets, among others, completed his education. He was a scholarship holder at the America-Israel Cultural Foundation and at the Ferenc Fricsay Foundation.

At the age of 17, Zohar Lerner made his solo debut with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under Zubin Mehta. He has performed as a soloist with orchestras such as the Israel Camerata Jerusalem, the Israel Chamber Orchestra, the Tel-Aviv Soloists, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra and the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn. He has regularly collaborated with the Berliner Philharmoniker: in the years 2005-2009 he played there as guest under conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Simon Rattle, Mariss Jansons, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Semyon Bychkov, Christian Thielemann, Bernard Haitink and Daniel Barenboim.

Zohar Lerner has been guest concertmaster with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the WDR Symphony Orchestra, the SWR Symphony Orchestra, the hr Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the Stuttgart Philharmonic, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, the Basel Chamber Orchestra as well as the Norwegian National Opera Oslo.

Zohar Lerner is also a welcome guest at the festivals in Rolandseck, Salzburg, Lucerne, Kafar Blum and at the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival.

He plays a Nicolaus Gagliano violin from 1754, which the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn makes available to him.