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Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog
… The Jewish Music Research Centre mourns the recent passing of ethnomusicologist Avigdor Herzog (1922-2022), one of the founders … introduced to music by his father who handed him his first violin. He received his secondary education in the nearby …
Moshe "Musa" Berlin
… berlin is a clarinet player and one of the leading Klezmer musicians in Israel. He was born in 1938 in Tel Aviv to a family of Hasidut Modzits . Musa’s musical capabilities were discovered at the age of 6 when he began playing the violin. In high school, he started playing the clarinet; …
Nitzan Hen Razael
… Nitzan-Chen Razael grew up in Jerusalem in a musical family. His grandfather was a cellist. He studied in … graduated from the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem in violin and composition. Razael was always drawn to folk … West, as well as different Jewish music. Razael plays the violin for a variety of audiences. His performances are …
Armand Sabah
… Israel with his family at age ten. His father came from a musical family related to the renowned Moroccan singer and … in Israel, studying accordion, classical guitar, piano, and violin with private instructors, focusing primarily on … on flamenco music. In the early 1980s, Sabah performed as a violinist with the payytan R. Haim Louk at Jerusalem's …
Leó Weiner
… Leó Weiner was born in Budapest. He had his first music and piano lessons from his brother, and later studied at the Academy of Music in Budapest, studying with János (Hans) Koessler. … compositions are a string trio, three string quartets, two violin sonatas, five divertimenti for orchestra, a symphonic …
Avraham Da‘ud (Avraham David Ha-Cohen)
… the instrument as a child. One of my brothers played the violin, the other played ‘ud. At the beginning, I started … I found myself with them.” See: Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited by Esther Warkov. …
Abraham Salman
… the Middle East. Blind from the age of two, he studied music as a child in Baghdad’s school for blind Jewish … in the 1920s and many of the students who showed musical talent were taught to become musicians in order to … Private recording by Esther Warkov in Salman’s home with violinist Simon Shaheen . Includes four samai-s and four …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… such as seli h ot . I have studied in great detail the musical setting of this poem in Sephardic communities, … among various communities, there seems to be an underlying musical structure tying together all the documented versions … immigration to Israel in 1951. While in Baghdad, he studied violin at the Alliance School, turning music into a …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… seaboard. With me, I carry a treasure, a piece of lost musical history, or so I believe. Saved on my mobile phone … d u lab in maqam hijaz on G performed here on a qanun and a violin, followed by an opening section, traditionally known … ḥ iss ]” that it was the famous Sami al-Shawa, a Cairo-born violin player of Aleppian descent, who could be heard in “ …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent … one of the most distinguished and long-standing Moroccan musicians in Israel. This short note prepared by JMRC … music, but he would eventually switch to the kemanja (violin played upright in the North African style). Between …