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Ram Da-Oz
… and lost his eyesight. Afterward he continued to study music, including piano, oboe, theory and composition, and … melodies for his works. He has also written Israeli folksongs. He plays an important role in the musical life of … MI, 1988. … Israeli composer … Israeli … Art Music … Folksong … Haifa … Ram Da-Oz …
Shoshana Damari
… early age. She is considered as one of the greatest Israeli folk singers, and had international recognition as well. Damari worked with several known Israeli musicians among them Moshe Wilensky, Boaz Shar'abi, Matti …
Tsippi Fleischer
… Fleischer’s (b. Haifa, 1946) formal education encompasses music, musicology, and Semitic languages – all reflected in her … world music. Amalgamated with influences of Israeli folk and popular song, which she has been researching for …
Deborah Lynn "Debbie" Friedman
… role in dramatically shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. … career began in the 1960's, developing out of the folk music and communal singing tradition of Jewish summer … … Songwriter … Jewish … North America … Children's Songs … Folk music … Liturgy … Youth … Youth movement … Deborah Lynn …
Ami Maayani
… 1936 d. 2019) had always emphasized the use of Jewish folk traditions, both Mizrahi and Ashkenazi, as well as elements of Arab music throughout his works. He is known internationally for … … Composers … 11807 … Composer … Israeli … Art … Music … Folk … Rubin … Academy … Tel Aviv … University … Ami Maayani …
Salah El Kuweiti
… 17. He played violin, sang, composed, and achieved great musical fame in Iraq together with his brother, Daoud, who … preferred Iraqi style. He was very important to Baghdadi musical life – headed the Iraqi broadcasting channel … were intentionally forgotten, and their songs were titled 'folksongs' or ascribed to other musicians. In Israel, they …
Yinam Leef
… A selection from his biography on the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance website: 'President of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, Yinam Leef (Born in Jerusalem in 1953) is … sessions of the Composers Conference in Vermont, Yale at Norfolk and Tanglewood. Leef's catalogue ranges from small, …
Betty Olivero
… Italy. She is a full professor of composition at the Music Department in Bar-Ilan University. Betty Olivero is a … Ricordi , Plane, IMI , Beit Hatefutsoth , and Folkways records companies. Between 2004-2008 Olivero was … by ancient Jewish and other early musical traditions. Folk material appears in rich, nuanced arrangements, or is …
Oedoen Partos
… Tel Aviv 1977, immigrated in 1938) had an impact on Israeli musical life immediately after his arrival, and throughout … a prize since given to only eleven composers of art music. An outstanding violinist and violist, and exceptional … the early 1920s, he emulated the Bartók-Kodály approach to folklorism, developed and re-interpreted it through his …
Ben-Zion Orgad
… Orgad has been most known as a principal figure on the music education scene for over three decades. He served as the national Superintendent of Music Education between 1975 and 1988. He studied with … juxtaposed in multi-layer textures, creating non-folkloristic contemporary, but not avant garde, sensations. …