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Haim Effendi
… In spite of his unparalleled fame as a singer and musician during his lifetime, very few details about the … and to Israel. Haim was a quintessential Sephardi singer of his period, a critical era of deep social … Haim was educated in one of the most important centers of Sephardi religious music, Edirne, where a local Jewish choir …
Manahem Avidom
… 1955 to the end of his life, some of the most important music institutions in Israel, such as the Israel Composers’ … pieces, including ten symphonies, two cantatas and chamber music. One of several prominent composers who wrote … and based many of their compositions on Yemenite and Sephardi tunes she sang, he was one of the leaders of the …
Jacob Bauer
… teacher. Born in Szenice, Hungary. Cantor and adaptor of music in the Turkish-Israelite temple in Vienna . Founder … Lowit, published a collection of arrangements of Turco-Sephardic melodies (Schir-Hakawod [1889]). Jacob Bauer's …
Ram Da-Oz
… and lost his eyesight. Afterward he continued to study music, including piano, oboe, theory and composition, and graduated from the Israel Academy of Music, Tel Aviv (1953). Da-Oz has written Israeli Art Music, … free tonality in addition to traditional styles, using some Sephardic melodies for his works. He has also written …
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 … yet combines elements as diverse as Judeo-Spanish (sephardic) music, Arab tunes and medieval music integrated …
Noam Sheriff
… that also developed a career as a conductor, and as musical director of the Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra … in Salzburg, and chaired the The Rubin Israel Academy of Music at Tel-Aviv University (1998-2000), where he taught … orchestra, such as his trilogy: Mechaye Hametim (1985), Sephardic Passion (1992), and Psalms of Jerusalem (1995). …
Isaac Eliyahu Navon
… until WWI, one of the most prosperous communities of Sephardic Jews in the Ottoman Empire. The scholars of Adrianpole excelled especially in Hebrew poetry and in music, two fields in which Isaac Eliyahu Navon excelled as … in Adrianpole had strong influence upon the local, young, Sephardic scholars. These Ashkenazi intellectuals spread the …
Edwin Seroussi
… in Montevideo, Uruguay, Prof. Seroussi started there his music studies (violin, theory and composition). He … to Israel in 1971 where he studied at the Department of Musicology at the undergraduate and graduate levels … Aviv (2017), and the Maurice Toledano Prize for research on Sephardic culture (2009). In 2024 he became a member of the …
Yehiel 'Adaki
… and studied their repertoire. He had a good voice and musical hearing, as well as a good memory and perception, … Cairo, where he stayed for a year and a half, and studied Sephardic cantorate in the H anan synagogue. In 1926, … song, they stopped because some distinguished Ashkenazi and Sephardic guests have arrived at the wedding. After the …
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 … … yemenite singing … Diwan … France … Yemenite … Moroccan … Sephardi … Ashkenazi … Avner Bahat …