Dalia Atlas, born in Haifa Israel, graduated from the Music Academy of Jerusalem, and studied conducting with the most distinguished Maestros abroad. By entering International Competitions for Conducting, she won 7 prizes, and became the first woman conductor in history to gain those prizes. She was immediately offered with invitations to conduct major international orchestras.

Dalia Atlas was honored by the mayor of Haifa with the title of a Distinguished Citizen of Haifa.

She received also various prizes, nationally and internationally for her life achievements.

Music critics worldwide have enthused about her talent and ability to extract from orchestras masterly interpretations and performances of the highest musical level.

The Lord Yehudi Menuhin wrote:

"Professor Dalia Atlas is one of the most effective, impressive and capable conductors I know…"

"She is thus an all-round musician, whom I can recommend without hesitation."

The music critic Donald Vroon wrote about her in the American Record Guide as: "One of today's finer conductors."

Dalia Atlas' rich repertoire includes about 750 scores, among them unknown music, some of her discoveries, and also arrangements of her own.

Dalia Atlas has conducted 82 orchestras in concerts, festivals and recordings, radio and T.V. in 29 countries. Among them the Israel Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Philharmonia, Helsinki Philharmonic, Stockholm Philharmonic, Czech Radio Orchestra, Berliner Simphoniker, and more.Dalia Atlas has recorded more than twenty CD's, particularly of unusual repertoires, which she has also performed in concerts and at international festivals.

In her own native country, Israel, Dalia Atlas was the founder of many musical and cultural organizations, orchestras and choirs, professional and educational, where she was Music Director and Principal Conductor for many years and professor at the Technion. She was also invited to the MIT several times as guest professor.