Avi Rafaelov is a California based jazz saxophonist, composer and teacher.

Rafaelov has been performing with both his own original music ensembles and also with renowned Israeli musicians since 2009, touring all around the country and abroad, and performing at the most prestigious music venues. Other than performing with his own projects, Rafaelov had performed and tour with Heathens, Just the Way You Are led by David Krivoshey, Moments Band Int– both in Israel and Europe, and Rockville, and with esteemed artists like Enrico Macias, Mordy Ferber, Alon Oleartchik, Billy Cobham, Tom Oren, Billy Buss, Yogev Gabay and more…

Born and raised in Tel-Aviv, Israel, and growing up in a musical family, he was introduced to music at a very young age. Starting his journey with classical clarinet studies, which were later on switched to saxophone and jazz, Avi has studied and successfully graduated from the Jazz Institute program at Rimon School of Music. During his studies at Rimon, he got to learn from and play with some of the best musicians in the country, including Mordy Ferber, Matan Chapnizky, Ronen Shmueli Amikam Kimelman, Guri Agmon, Hagai Amir and many more…

After he completed his studies at Rimon, Avi received a prestigious scholarship at Berklee College of Music and moved to Boston. He graduated and received his B.M. degree from Berklee in 2018. During his time in Boston, Rafaelov had the chance to study and also shared a stage with numerous local legends like George Garzone, Tia Fuller, Dino Govoni, Ayn Inserto, Terence Blanchard and Phil Wilson, to name a few.