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Betty Olivero
… Olivero is a winner of the most prestigious Emet Prize for Art, Science and Culture (2015), an Israeli prize … influence and make a significant contribution to society. In 2000 Olivero was awarded the Koussevitzky Award … contemporary compositional form, yet is inspired by ancient Jewish and other early musical traditions. Folk material …
Ephraim Skliar
… in 1903, he took part in the establishment of the Society for Jewish Folk Music in St. Petersburg. In 1912, he settled in …
Yehiel 'Adaki
… and his mother could not sustain the two of them, so he was forced to work in order to help support the household. … of Palestine) house. In Palestine, 'Adaki discovered that Jewish Yemenite singing is looked down upon, even by … he organized a choir of eighty boys in the Ezrat A h im society. Later, he was invited by the Tel Aviv city council …
Andre Hajdu
… 5 March 1932 to a characteristically assimilated Hungarian-Jewish family and having survived the Holocaust (a subject … and composition in Tunisia. His Diary from Sidi-Bou-Said for solo piano (1960) is a testimony to this experience. … teaching at the Israel Arts and Science Academy of the Society for Excellence Through Education. In this …
Israel J. Katz
… York College (CUNY), chairing the Department of Fine and Performing Arts; and Hebrew Union College as a visiting … (2001– ). He was a founding member of the American Society for Jewish Music (1974) and served as chairman of the board …
Robert Lachmann
… Robert Lachmann was born in Berlin and began his formal education at the University of Berlin and at the … and paraliturgical musical traditions of the local Jewish community, material that served as the base for his … Schunemann and Erich von Hornbostel, Lachmann founded the Society for the Research of Oriental Music. Lachmann was …
Joel Engel
… music editor, a member of the St. Petersburg School of Jewish composers, and one of the founders of the Society for Jewish Folk Music … Joel Engel …
Solomon Rosowsky
… Konservatorium. He helped to found the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music in 1908 and served as the musical director …
Amnon Shiloah
… Born in Lanus, Argentina in 1928 to a family of Jewish immigrants from Syria, Shiloah returned with his … personality and as a journalist, producing music programs for Kol Israel and writing music criticism for the journal … He was also President of the Israel Musicological Society (2001-2003). At the international level he had a …
Joseph Dorfman
… as artistic director of the International Festivals of Jewish Art Music, initiated in 1992. As a composer, … etc. He wrote over a hundred compositions, including pieces for solo instruments, chamber and vocal music, choral music, … tradition of Eastern Europe, focusing on the work of the Society of Jewish Folk Music . As part of his research, he …