The daughter of Hayim Baltsan. Baltsan won the first prize in the 1984 Banff Concerto Competition in Canada. In 1984, Baltsan became a laureate of the Concert Artists Guild's competition NYC 1984. She performed at the Norfolk festival of Yale University, The Tanglewood Festival, the La Gesse Festival in France, the Tutzing Fes- tival in Munich and the Ernen Chamber Festival in Switzerland. Astrith Baltsan returned to Israel in 1985 to join the faculty of the Rubin Acade- my of Music at Tel Aviv University. She was a founder and music director of the Mu- sica Nova Ensemble for new music, and recorded many original Israeli compositions dedicated especially to her. She performed as pianist, editor and musicdirector of con- cert series with the Israel Chamber Orchestra (1988-1996), the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (2000-2019), TheIsrael Festival in Jerusalem (including performances of all Beethoven Sonatas in 1987) and the New Israeli Opera. In 1990 Baltsan started to develop her series "Classics in Personal View", in which she performs classical music masterpieces accompanied with live storytelling and explanations. The program also incorporates pop, jazz and other genre segments, and includes performances by guest artists. This series of concerts has been the largest of its type in Israel for the last 30 years. In 2000 Baltsan started collaborating with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta, a collaboration which continued from 2000 to 2019.