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Salah El Kuweiti
… immigrated to Israel in 1951. After their emigration from Iraq, their names were intentionally forgotten, and … Sources: Dudu Tassa tells the story of the al-Kuwaitis ' From Israel, a Jewish Singer with Arab Roots Revives the …
Yinam Leef
… A selection from his biography on the Jerusalem Academy of Music and … Yinam Leef (Born in Jerusalem in 1953) is one of the most prominent and active composers in Israel today. He grew up in … Yale at Norfolk and Tanglewood. Leef's catalogue ranges from small, intimate solo pieces to massive orchestral …
Nehama Lifshitz
… 'the Jews of silence,' which were not allowed to immigrate from the U.S.S.R. to Israel in the sixties and seventies. … …
Jascha Nemtsov
… in 1963 and grew up in Saint Petersburg where he graduated from a special music school and was awarded a gold medal. He … repertoire is wide and varied: Besides of the Classic and Romantic repertoire, he is especially dedicated to the music … National Library of Israel website. Jewish Dance No. 1 from the album On Wings of Jewish Songs /Artist: Jascha …
Betty Olivero
… and secular, traditional and new. Olivero was awarded the Fromm Award by the Fromm Music Foundation (USA, 1986), the Prime Minister's … studying in Israel, Betty Olivero was granted scholarships from the America-Israel-Cultural-Foundation . Olivero's …
Pnina Salzman
… navigating her early career, she received lessons from many other well known Parisian and visiting pianists, … a session with Artur Schnabel (1882-1951). She graduated from the École Normale in June 1935 as a student of Cortot. … Rubinstein (1887–1982)—an act she had to keep secret from Tagliaferro, her official teacher during the …
Ronit Seter
… are available as webcasts. Seter received grants from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, Dan David …
Ezra Aharon ("Azuri")
… Congress of Oriental Music, Cairo. Aharon immigrated from Iraq to Israel in 1935 and developed ‘Oriental’ styles …
Oedoen Partos
… through the synthesis of Yemenite tunes he transcribed from Bracha Zefira. Music in Israel after 1960 was significantly different, following the news from Darmstadt that reached composers only in the late 1950s, …
Ben-Zion Orgad
… texts to music that derives motives and melodic cells from cantilation juxtaposed in multi-layer textures, creating …