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Issachar Miron-Michrovsky
… by Ascap Today as, 'a major force in today's liturgical music.' Issachar Miron has made a name for himself … established he was named the National Deputy Director of Music for Israel's Ministry of Education and Culture. He … he has served as Chairman of Music Faculty of the Jewish Teachers Seminary and at the Herzliah Teachers Institute in …
Sarah Gorby
… culturally rich environment, significantly influencing her musical career. Gorby showed an early interest in music and classical singing. Her family's relocation to … in the 1920s allowed her to study under prominent music teachers and further develop her vocal technique. She …
Jacques (Yaakov) Stroumsa
… was born in Salonika in 1913, the son of a distinguished teacher and a talented milliner. The oldest of four children, he showed musical talent at a young age. After completing secondary … while simultaneously taking violin lessons at the Lycée Musicale. Upon finishing that program, he moved to Paris, …
Albert Elias
… Baghdad Elias studied law as well as the nay with a Syrian teacher. He played with some of the greatest stars of Iraqi music, including Nazem al-Ghazali, Salima Morad, Muhammed … Iraqi maqam and the more widespread Egyptian style of tarab music, which he greatly enjoyed. He also studied law for two …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one appeared … feeding himself. Finally, he ended up becoming a shohet , teacher and prayer leader in Kurland, the El Dorado of … Rabinovitz and he took upon himself to teach me the music theory and voice training. Yiska’s memoire: [3a] He …
Avner Bahat
… where he was introduced to a recorder and discovered his musical talent. Over time he developed a great skill on the … kibbutz, he traveled one day a week to Tel Aviv to study music: piano, oboe, harmony, and later on, a one-week course … Naomi and Avner would be sent to to study to become music teachers. Upon graduation, he began teaching music at the …
Gustav Mahler
… German-speaking Jewish community. Mahler's formal musical education began in 1875 at the Conservatory of Music in Vienna where he studied piano with teacher Julius Epstein, and harmony and composition with …
Israel Alter
… Ukraine) into a Hasidic family with many rabbis. He studied music in Vienna with cantors and teachers of singing and composition, including Cantor Yehuda … in 1961 and joined the faculty of the School of Sacred Music at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of …
Betty Olivero
… Italy. She is a full professor of composition at the Music Department in Bar-Ilan University. Betty Olivero is a … was awarded the Koussevitzky Award by the Koussevitzky Music Foundation and the Library of Congress, Washington … Sadai and Leon Shidlowsky, and at Yale University where her teachers included Jacob Druckman and Bernard Rands. In 1982 …