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The Festival is organized and presented jointly by the Jewish Music Institute's Forum for Israeli Music, whose Director is Dr Malcolm Miller and the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. It includes a week of workshops and masterclasses, seminars and performances on Israeli and Arabic music at major British music colleges and other venues.
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Musical Dialogues is presented by the
Jewish Music Institute, Forum for Israeli Music, Director Malcolm Miller together with the
Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, President Professor Ilan Schul
Michael Wolpe, Artistic Advisor Head of Composition at the Jerusalem Academy and JMI Visiting Composer from Israel.
Eden Sinfonia at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Center
The Eden Sinfonia has been invited to take part in the grand finale of Musical Dialogues Festival at the South Bank in November 2008. The Festival is London's first joint celebration of British and Israeli classical music.
The numerous outstanding Israeli performers on the international scene are well known, but as yet, the music created in Israel since the early part of the twentieth century, is a treasure trove still waiting to be revealed. It is a unique symbiosis of East and West and the assimilation of elements from diverse traditions, combining the strands of Jewish traditions and Arab and Middle Eastern music with the use of Western approaches.
The Festival will specially honour the esteemed senior Israeli composer Tzvi Avni and the Eden Sinfonia's concert will feature the UK premiere of Avni's piece 'If this be a Man', a song cycle for soprano and orchestra on poems by Primo Levi (1998). The concert will also feature ‘An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise’ by Peter Maxwell-Davies and
Michael Wolpe’s Concerto for Oud and Orchestra, based on Israeli and Arabic folksongs. Oudist Taiseer Elias, who heads the growing Arabic Music Department of the Jerusalem Academy, will be the soloist.
Artistic Advisor of the Festival is Michael Wolpe, Head of Department of Composition and Conducting at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, who has recently been appointed as the JMI Visiting Composer from Israel. Wolpe says: 'There are many parallels and contrasts in British and Israeli music that are worth exploring and a vast output of music composed in Israel by successive generations since the early 20th Century. There will be exciting music of several styles to suit all tastes'.
St Luke's Church, Hampsted, 17 February 2004
Bach: three counterpoints from 'The Art of the Fugue'*
Bach: Violin Concerto in E Major
Bach: 'Coffee' Cantata
*arr for strings by Daniel Cohen
Giovanni Guzzo: Violin
Ingeborg Boerk: Soprano
Emilien Hamel: Briton
Eden Sinfonia
Daniel Cohen, conductor
Duke's Hall, Royal Academy of Music, March 2004
Mark Kopytman: 'Kaddish' for Solo Viola and Strings
Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florance
Alexandros Koustas - Viola
Eden Sinfonia
Daniel Cohen, Conductor
Duke's Hall, Royal Academy of Music, March 2007
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto no 2
Pedro Meireles: Violin
Eden Sinfonia
Daniel Cohen, Conductor
St James's Piccadilly, 1 April 2004
Mark Kopytman: Kaddish for Solo Viola and Strings
Tchaikovsky: Andante Cantabile
Paul Ben-Haim: 'Three songs without words'*
Beethoven: Grosse Fugue*
*arr for strings by Daniel Cohen
Alexandros Koustas - Viola
Eden SInfonia
Daniel Cohen, Conductor
Duke's Hall, Royal Academy of Music, March 2007 (as part of RAG week)
P.I Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 4
John Williams: E.T. suite
Eden Sinfonia
Daniel Cohen, Conductor
Duke's Hall, Royal Academy of Music, 16 April 2007
Igor Stravinsky: 'Ragtime' for 11 players
Claude Debussy: Three preludes from book 1^
Stravinsky: Soldier's Tale*
^ arr. for Chamber Ensemble by Daniel Cohen
*New full production of Neil Georgeson in claboration with the opera department and the musical theater department of the Royal Academy of Music
Eden Sinfonia
Daniel Cohen, Conductor
St Martin in the Fields
Wagner: 'Siegfried Idyll'
Hindemith: Kammermusik no 3 'Cello concerto'
J.Strauss: 'Kaiser Waltz'*
*arr for flute,clarinet,piano and string quartet by Arnold Schoenberg
Louisa Tuck: Cello
Eden Sinfonia
Daniel Cohen, conductor
Dukes hall, Royal Academy of Music, 7 November 2006
Aaron Holoway Nachum: 'Night Mist' for 13 instruments
Hindemith: Kammermusik no 4 'Violin concerto'
Brahms: Symphony no 4
David Worswick: Violin
Eden Sinfonia
Daniel Cohen, conductor
St James's Piccadilly, 22 February 2006
Mozart: 'Gran Partita' for 13 Wind instruments
Eden Sinfonia Winds
Daniel Cohen, conductor
Duke's Hall, Royal Academy of Music, 17 February 2006
Bela Bartok: Romanian folk dances
Paul Ben-Haim: Violin Concerto
Mendelssohn: Symphony no 4 'Italian'
Sivann Zelikoff, violin
Eden Sinfonia
Daniel Cohen, conductor
Show Theater, Easton Road, London 25 September 2005
Mozart: Symphony no 33, in B flat major
Britten: A simple Symphony
Gluck: 'Dance of the Blessed Spirits'
Ben Haim: 'Ballade' for flute and strings*
Sasha Agrov: 'Shir Arez' (song of land)^
*arr for strings by Daniel Cohen
^arr for strings by Menahem Wiesenberg
Guy Eshed: Solo Flute
Eden Sinfonia
Daniel Cohen, conductor
Kopytman with Zibun Mehta and IPO, during rehearsal of his piece
St James's, Piccaddily 14 Feb 2007
J.S.Bach: Cantata BWV 51, 'Jauchzet gott in alen Landen'
Debussy: Prelude no 6 from book 1, 'Des pas sur la negie'*
Matan Porat: Lewis Carroll Poems
*arr Daniel Cohen
Norah King, soprano
Yuval Shapiro, trumpet
Eden Sinfonia
Daniel Cohen, Conductor
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Igor Stravinsky
Matan Porat
Pedro Meireles
Lousia Tuck
David Worswick
Sivann Zelikoff
Guy Eshed
Noam Sheriff, composer
Sheriff studied with Paul Ben-Haim in Tel-Aviv, Boris Blacher in Berlin und Igor Markevitch in Salzburg Composition and Conducting and at the university of Jerusalem Philosophy. From 1963 until 1989 he taught composition and conducting in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. In 1990 he became Professor at the Rubin-Akademie in Tel Aviv, that he managed from 1998 until 2000. Besides
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Rivka Golani - Viola
Familiar to audiences throughout the world, Rivka Golani has also performed as a soloist with the Boston Symphony, BBC Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw, Budapest Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, and many others.
Along with her recording career and worldwide solo performances, she
teaches at the Birmingham Conservatoire, and Trinity College of Music, London. She has also taught at the University of Toronto and The Royal Academy of Music.
Composers have written over 250 works for her, of which more than 60 are concertos. She has also recorded important transcriptions for the viola including Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor with the Royal Philharmonic and the Six Bach solo violoncello Suites, Chaconne and J.S. Bach / Z. Kodaly (trans.) Chromatic Fantasy (CBC Records).
Michael Wolpe: 'Remembering Only Lightness'
concertino for Oud and Chamber Orchestra
Michael Wolpe, composer
Born in 1960 in Tel Aviv, and after completing agricultural high school and army service he combined two boyhood dreams: to compose and to work the land. He chose kibbutz 'Sde Boker' which Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, joined in his desire to serve as an example in settling the unexploited expanses of the Negev desert.
Wolpe believes it is not enough to be just an artist in Israel, but one must also be involved in building society. Wolpe does so by teaching music to youth in the Negev region and in Jerusalem. He is a founder of Caprisma, a Jerusalem chamber ensemble, and of the internationally acclaimed festival "Music in the Desert".
Taiseer Elias - Oud
Mr Elias was born in the Israeli Arab village of Shafram, and is regarded as the leading figure in classical Arab music in Israel. He has a Master's degree in ethnomusicology from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem and founded the Orchestra of Classical Arab Music in Israel. He frequently plays with musicians from all over the world, and as well as recording with the Ziryab Trio, he has produced several CD's with the Israeli group Bustan Abraham.
Tzvi Avni: Se Questo E Un Uomo ('if this is a Man')
A song cycle set to Poems of Primo Levi.
Tzvi Avni, Composer
Tzvi Avni is one of the foremost composers of Israel today. He was born in Saarbrücken, Germany, in 1927, and came to Israel as a child. Initially self-taught he continued his studies with Abel Ehrlich and Paul Ben-Haim. In 1958 he graduated from the Israel Music Academy in Tel Aviv under Mordecai Seter and later furthered his studies in the U.S.A. at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center with Vladimir Ussachevsky and in Tanglewood with Aaron Copland and Lukas Foss. Since 1971 he
Noam Sheriff: concertino for Viola and Strings
(performed by the Yehudy Menuhin School of Music String Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Singer with Viola soloist Rivka Golani)
has been teaching at the Jerusalem Rubin Academy of Music and Dance where he holds the position of Professor of theory and composition and served as head of the Electronic Music Studio.
His works include several orchestral pieces, chamber music for various combinations, vocal and choral music, several electronic works, as well as music for ballet, theater, art films, radio plays, etc. They have been performed world-wide by numerous soloists and ensembles and by all Israeli orchestras including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, The Israel Chamber Orchestra, as well as the Berlin Radio Orchestra, the Saarland Radio Synphony Orchestra, the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, the Stuttgart Radio Orchestra, Bochum Symphony and others, under the direction of Zubin Mehta, Lukas Foss, Gary Bertini, Mendi Rodan, Yuri Aronovich, Juan Pablo Izquierdo, John Nelson, Avi Ostrowsky, Yoav Talmi, Michael Stern, Steven Sloane, Yaakov Bergman and many others. Many of his works have been printed and issued on records.
In his early works Avni followed the line of the so-called Mediterranean Style which was still prevalent in Israel in the 1950's. His encounter in the early 1960's with some of the newer trends in musical thinking, including the electronic medium, were a turning point in his style, which now became more abstract and focused on sonorism and post-Webern developments though preserving some of its former characteristics. Avni's interest in Jewish mysticism since the mid 1970's left a furher mark on his musical language in which some neo-tonal elements manifest themselves in a new synthesis.
Avni is a recipient of several prizes, including the ACUM Prize for his life achievements (1986) and the Kuestermeier Prize awarded to him by the Germany-Israel Friendship Association (1990), The Israel Prime Minister's Prize for his life achievements (1998), the Culture Prize of the Saarland (1998) and the Israel Prize (2000).
Constantly active in Israel's public musical life, Tzvi Avni served in the past as Chairman of the Israel Composers' League and led the World Music Days which took place in Israel in 1980. For several years he was Chairman of the Music Committee of the National Council for Culture and Art, served twice as Chairman of the Jury of the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition (in 1989 and in 1992) and is currently Chairman of the Directory Board of the Israel Jeunesses Musicales. He has been constantly lecturing and publishing articles on musical topics for professional musicians as well as for a general public.
Tzvi Avni on - 'Se Questo E Un Uomo' ('if this is a man')
A song cycle set to Poems of Primo Levi.
'At times philosophical, at others rather matter of fact, his [Levi's] writings express his thoughts and beliefs in a straightforward matter, without wither self-pity or superfluous pathos. These qualities become even more crystallized in his poems - which are less then a hundred - dating from 1943 to 1987.'
[from the composer's inctroduction to Se Questo E Un Uomo]
this he was from 1973 until 1982 conductor of the Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra, he taught from 1983 until 1986 Instrumentation at the Musikhochschule Köln and he was from 1989 until 1995 musical director of the Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon-LeZion. Since 2002 is he conductor of the Israel Chamber Orchestra.
Sharon Rostorf - Zamir
Sharon is a singer with a wide ranging career which takes her to opera houses and concert halls world wide.She works extensively with famous conductors and well known orchestras . Her future
engagements include festivals and concerts in France, Spain, Italy, Canada and Israel.She has also recorded extensively both operas and classical solo albums recitals for major labels. This year Handels Rodrigo is about to be released as well as a Schubert lieder solo album together with Daniel Gortler, renouned Israeli pianist. Israels leading classical and popular composers have been writing for Sharon over the past years, among them Gil Shohat, Aharon Harlap, Sharon farber ,Eugene Levitas ,Dubi Seltzer and Ofer Bashan. Some of the above mentioned composers pieces will be featured on an album dedicated to the poet Yaacov Barzilay which will be recorded this summer. Besides her singing career sharon is an international voice teacher and coach and is a member of the staff of the tel Aviv Mehta- Buchmann Academy.Sharon is a classical singer with a wide ranging career which takes her to opera houses and concert halls world wide.She works extensively with famous conductors and well known orchestras . Her future engagements include festivals and concerts in France, Spain, Italy, Canada and Israel.She has also recorded extensively both operas and classical solo albums recitals for major labels. This year Handels Rodrigo is about to be released as well as a Schubert lieder solo album together with Daniel Gortler, renouned Israeli pianist. Israels leading classical and popular composers have been writing for Sharon over the past years, among them Gil Shohat, Aharon Harlap, Sharon farber ,Eugene Levitas ,Dubi Seltzer and Ofer Bashan. Some of the above mentioned composers pieces will be featured on an album dedicated to the poet Yaacov Barzilay which will be recorded this summer. Besides her singing career sharon is an international voice teacher and coach and is a member of the staff of the tel Aviv Mehta- Buchmann Academy.
About 'Orkney Wedding, With Sunrise' (1985)
for orchestra or chamber orchestra and Highland pipes
One of Davies's lighter pieces. It depicts the all-night celebrations after a wedding on Orkney. The piece closes with the entry of the bagpipes, which Davies has described as symbolic of the rising sun over Caithness.
Peter Maxwell Davies is one of the most significant figures in post-War European music. Rose to prominence in late 1960s with neo-expressionistic music-theatre pieces Eight Songs for a Mad King and Vesalii Icones, orchestra scores Worldes Blis and St Thomas Wake, and opera Taverner. Many works composed for distinctive chamber sextet of Fires of London. Since the 1970s, worklist includes
Maxwell Davies: Orkney Wedding, With Sunrise (1985)
for orchestra or chamber orchestra and Highland pipes
Trumpet Concerto, 8 Symphonies, and 10 Strathclyde Concertos written for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Many works for young performers. Active as conductor, both of his own works and standard repertoire. Appointed Master of the Queen's Music in 2004
In concert performance, the piper is enters the hall from the back, parading to the stage and taking the soloist's position only as the piece concludes.
It was written to a commission by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who premiered it under John Williams on May 10, 1985.
Daniel Cohen with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Orkney conducting course 2006
Giovanni Guzzo
About the Program
Eden Sinfonia's Opera Galla
The Eden Sinfonia's Opera Galla Evening at the Jersey Liberation Festival with Soprano Elizabeth Watts.
A wonderful oportunity to hear some of your favorite opera arias and to descover some perls of the Israeli operatic repertoire. The Program will include Britten's Les Illuminations as well as arias by Handel, Gluck, Mozart, Ben-Haim and Avidom.
9th May 2010 at the Jersey Opera House.
For more detials and tickets visit to the Jersey Liberation Festival Website
