Dr. Raz Binyamini has been the Music Director of the Chamber Music Center at the Israel Conservatory of Music, Tel-Aviv, since 2007, where he has been collaborating with leading ensembles and musicians from Israel and overseas, and establishing the Center as one of the most important and estimated musical institutions in Israel. He holds a PhD in musicology from the Tel-Aviv University, where he wrote his dissertation – an interdisciplinary study of 16^th-century Venetian Music in its social, political, religious, literary and artistic contexts. He was a faculty member of the Musicology Department at the Tel-Aviv University and the General Studies Unit at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya.

In recent years, Raz has been a jury member in music competitions in Israel, such as the Chamber Music Competition of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, the Aviv Competition of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation and the national competition for young pianists "Piano Forever" in Ashdod. Since 2015 he serves also as the Artistic Coordinator of Musethica Israel, the Israeli branch of an international programme that nurtures outstanding young musicians through community concert playing, a programme he regards as the ideal context for promoting the next generation of excellent young Israeli musicians and making a significant change in the local socio-cultural scene.