Ada Pelleg is the founder and music director of the Galilee Music Center and the conductor of the Israeli Strings Ensemble. She was recently nominated Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Paris Chamber Orchestra. She graduated with distinction from the Chicago Music College (BA in piano performance), and from Indiana School of Music in Bloomington (composition and conducting).

Ada Pelleg conducted orchestras and choirs in Israel and abroad, including the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, IBA, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Oregon Bach Festival's orchestra and choir, St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, The Israel Opera Choir and many others. She was awarded a conducting fellowship to the Aspen Music Festival, a scholarship to study with Frederick Prauznitz at Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and a fellowship to a master class with Max Rudolph at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Pelleg received the First Prize in the Molly Margolis Piano Competition in Chicago as well as other scholarships and distinctions.

The Israeli Association of women in Management chose Ada Pelleg as "Woman of the year 2006". A prolific writer and sought after lecturer Pelleg has published numerous articles in professional publications and has lectured in prestigious institutions, including the School of Architecture at the Israel Institute of Technology, London University SOAS, Middlebury College, Haifa University and Indiana University.

Pelleg directed the international music festival in Columbia Maryland, founded the International Flute Competition and the international competition for composition, and the Classi-Zfat Festival that further became a whole concert series. In 2006, she rearranged Pink Floyd's The Wall, for a rock band, choir and orchestra. Most recently she completed the Hebrew translation to Histoire du Soldat by the Swiss Librettist Ferdinand Ramos, set to music by Igor Stravinsky , and conducted a special performance with the participation of actors and players of the Israel Philharmonic.