Uri Sharvit was born in Jerusalem in 1939. He received his diploma from the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem in 1965, his bachelor's degree from the Hebrew University in 1968, his Master of Arts from Columbia University in 1971, and his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1977.
Since 1973 he has been a professor of music at Bar-Ilan University and professor of ethnomusicology at the Rubin Academy since 1975. He served as a chairman on the jury of the International Klezmer Festival in Tzfat from 1990 to 1993, and as director of ethnic music master classes at the Jerusalem Music Center from 1996 to 1999.
He is the author of A Treasury of Jewish Yemenite Chants (1981) and Chassidic Tunes from Galicia (1995). In 1980 he won the League of Israeli Composers, Authors, and Publishers' first prize for his composition Tehila for a cappella chorus.
Source: IMI website.
(*The photo is taken from the Bar Ilan University website)