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Shulamit Ran
… Pulitzer Prize winning Israeli Composer, currently serving on faculty at the … For full biography via the University of Chicago Department of Music website, click here . Ran's personal website, …
Joseph Papernikoff
… a butcher, one of the first members of the Hovevei Zion party, an educated and Zionist activist. Joseph Papernikoff … Thanks to his voice, a beautiful alto voice, and his musical hearing, he was accepted at the age of 8 to the … the establishment of the state, he regularly wrote in the Israeli daily 'Latest News ' (in Yiddish). He also published …
Edwin Seroussi
… Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Prof. Seroussi started there his music studies (violin, theory and composition). He … musical life of Israel and to the research of Jewish and Israeli music he was awarded the prestigious Israel Prize …
Claude Abravanel
… at the Conservatory of Geneva. Studied composition with Arthur Honegger and piano with Yvonne Lefébure at the Ecole … director of the library at the Jerusalem Rubin Academy of Music and Dance, Jerusalem, until 1992. Was the director of the Archives of Israeli Music at the Rubin Academy, Jerusalem. Source: …
Yehiel 'Adaki
… singers used to build a singing program for each event and party. 'Adaki got to know three groups of singers (each … and studied their repertoire. He had a good voice and musical hearing, as well as a good memory and perception, … Ravina , who transcribed some of the Yemenite songs. The Israeli folksong Ki Tavo'u El Haarets [6] was written by …
Israel Adler
… the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études and at the Institut de Musicologie at the Sorbonne where he combined Jewish and … Sorbonne in 1963 for his seminal work on the diffusion of art music in certain Western European Jewish communities … of the State of Israel, and the development of Israeli institutions of higher learning laid down the …

Hanoch Avenary
… In 1936 he immigrated to Palestine, and served in the Israeli Air Force (1948-1965). In 1972 Avenary began teaching at Tel-Aviv University's Department of Musicology and was a member of the Jewish Music Research …
Avner Bahat
… where he was introduced to a recorder and discovered his musical talent. Over time he developed a great skill on the … Prof. Jacques Chailley about: The East-West Encounter in Israeli Music (1939–1973): Integration of Traditional … 1981 to 1967, he taught at the Academy of Music and the Department of Musicology at Tel Aviv University, the Hebrew …
Yehezkiel Braun
… 1922, immigrated in 1924, lived in Tel-Aviv), the senior of Israeli composers who were raised and educated in Israel , is most known for his often-performed choral music. A 2001 Israel Prize laureate, he is probably the most … by studies under Boskovich (who supported folklorism à la Bartók) in the Tel-Aviv Academy of Music (1947-53), and later …
Mordechai Breuer
… affection for Israel in general and for Jerusalem in particular. In 1936 the family immigrated to Israel. Breuer … from Germany. In 1942, Breuer studied in a course for music teachers at the Jerusalem Conservatory and received a … moved to Bar-Ilan University to teach in the Department of Israeli History until his retirement in 1986. His areas of …