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Noam Sheriff
… 1935-2018), composer, conductor and lecturer. Sheriff is the only celebrated Israeli composer of his generation that … a career as a conductor, and as musical director of the Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra (1973-1982) and of the Israel Symphony Orchestra of Rishon-LeZion (1989-1995). …
Leon Schidlowsky
… 1931, immigrated in 1969, lives in Tel-Aviv) was a father figure to many of the third generation of composers at The Rubin Israel Academy of Music at Tel-Aviv University in …
Joan Franks Williams
… to Israel in 1971, returned to Seattle ca. 1988) directed the chamber music department of the Israel Broadcasting Authority between 1972 and ca. 1988. She initiated the concert series, New Dimension in Music, beginning the in …
David Menahem
… was born in 1980 to a family who immigrated from Iraq in the 1950s. His maternal grandfather, Rabbi Gurje Yair, was an educator and one of the greatest cantors of Iraq. As a child, he grew up in …
Zalman Polak
… Born in Yugoslavia. 1919: Immigrated to Israel with his mother. 1920: Injured in the riots in Jerusalem. 1921: Invited to serve as cantor in The Great Synagogue, (Beit ha-Knesset ha-Gadol) of Rishon …
Isaac Eliyahu Navon
… born in Adrianpole (today Edirne) on May 17, 1859. His father, Rabbi Eliyahu Navon, was one of the Jewish intellectuals and public figures in Adrianpole, a city which had, from the seventeenth century until WWI, one of the most …
Moses Pergament
… German Expressionism and French Impressionism to Jewish themes and Biblical cantillation. Sources: Encyclopedia …
Sergiu Natra
… Sergiu Natra was born in Bucharest, Romania. He studied at the Bucharest Academy of Music with Leo Keppler, and … settling in Tel Aviv. From 1975 to 1985 Natra taught at the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv. He won several prizes including the George Enescu Prize (1945) for his piece, March and …
Fabian Ogutsch
… ' Der Frankfurter Kantor ' containing synagogue melodies of the Frankfurt tradition. Sources: Concise Encyclopedia of …
Israel Rabinovitch
… published various writings on Jewish music and edited the Canadian Jewish Eagle . Sources: Concise Encyclopedia of …